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Long term HIV and Hep C survivor Barry Haarde to bike across North America...
Bob Leahy interviews Barry Haarde who is about to set a new world record by embarking on Wheels for the World IV, a 4000-mile bike ride across North America. They talk about this feat, as well as...
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When to START has never been clearer
Editor Bob Leahy in conversation with CATIE’s Sean Hosein about START, the important and ground-breaking study that recently provided definitive evidence of the health benefits of starting HIV...
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Filling the void: Canada’s national voice for people living with HIV takes...
Bob Leahy reports on the fledgling organization called CPPN/RCPS recently formed by and for Canadian people living with HIV to give them a strong voice on the national stage It was all the buzz in...
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Seroconverting at 15
Bob Leahy talks to Preston Leon, a 16-year old man from central British Columbia diagnosed with HIV a year ago, about what it’s like to find out you are HIV-positive when you are a teenager in a small...
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HIV Happy
Bob Leahy talks to UK writer Paul Thorn about his new book which explains how a harmonious and happy co-existence with HIV is possible and how to make the most of the second chance that treatment...
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Frank talk from Julio Montaner
From IAS 2015 Bob Leahy speaks (again) with BC’s Dr. Julio Montaner, the world’s leading treatment as prevention advocate, about 90-90-90, his frustrations with uptake in Canada – and meeting the...
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Twenty questions for Preston
You wanted to know more about Preston Leon, the inspiring aboriginal young man we interviewed from rural British Columbia whom we featured in the article “Seroconverting at 15”. So we asked him twenty...
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Charles Sanchez gives life with HIV the full comic treatment in Merce
Bob Leahy talks to New York poz guy Charles Sanchez, producer, writer and star of Merce, a TV web series that’s been compared to "Seinfeld with HIV". "Merce, is about a middle aged, HIV+ guy living in...
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Here’s help with telling your (HIV) story
Editor Bob Leahy in conversation with Camille de Putter, author of Storytelling with Heart, a workbook designed to help people tell their stories. It's about working through shame, silence and secrets...
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Bob Leahy interviews poz US Marine gone viral Tanner White
A conversation with the out poz and proud US marine who gained fame for asking gay country star Steve Grand to be his date for the Marine Corps Ball – on YouTube From poz.com “Tanner White, who bills...
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Talking early treatment issues
Bob Leahy talks with the world's leading treatment as prevention advocate, B.C.'s Dr. Julio Montaner, about new research that broadens the case for early treatment – and why Canada still needs to...
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Great new Canadian website on smoking and HIV
Positive Quitting is a partnership between PositiveLite.com and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network to help people living with HIV who want to quit smoking From the OHTN’s Did You Know September 2015...
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Catching up with the first Miss America to champion AIDS awareness
Mark S King says “When Miss Florida 1992, Leanza Cornett, competed for the crown of Miss America 1993, . . we adored her because she proudly chose an AIDS awareness platform — and she meant it down to...
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Youth and the aboriginal way
Bob Leahy talks to Preston Leon, the young man from BC’s interior diagnosed at 16 we have featured here before, about the influence aboriginal ways have had on his journey as a young gay man living...
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Our landscape, our peers: Andrew Beckerman
Philip Dawson talks to AIDS Vancouver Island's Andrew Beckerman, a long-term survivor with a long background of volunteering who says “the challenge is how to make this world a more equitable place by...
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The Danny Pintauro Interview
For eight years, he played Jonathan Bower on televisions "Who's the Boss". He starred in Stephen King's "Cujo". For twelve years, Danny Pintauro had a secret. Danny is HIV positive. Now Joe Lethbridge...
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Occasional guest writer Joe Lethbridge from Kitchener Ontario interviews M, a homeless HIV-positive man about the impact crystal meth addiction has had on his life Joe says: "While this may be a rough...
View ArticleThe Charlie Sheen interview with TODAY's Matt Lauer
For those who haven’t seen it, the news officially broke this morning in this interview that Charlie Sheen is HIV-positive “I’m not really the good poster man for this but I won’t shun away from...
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“It’s all I’ve ever known”
Bob Leahy interviews Ontario’s Muluba Habanyama, a twenty-two year old born with HIV who lived with a family secret for twenty-one years to emerge as one of our busiest and most promising young...
View Article90-90-90 endorsed by Canadian Government (part two: Julio Montaner speaks out)
On December 1, The Canadian Government endorsed 90-90-90 but the long awaited announcement went virtually unnoticed until reported by PositiveLite.com. Today Bob Leahy interviews B.C.'s Julio Montaner...
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