HIV/AIDS

• Here’s what happens to the body when HIV medication is stopped

  Now the Trump administration has put the brakes on foreign aid while alleging it's wasteful, causing chaos in the system that for over 20 years has kept millions of people alive

  Health

  Feb 13
  
• HIV cases could jump six times by 2029 without U.S. support: UNAIDS

  HIV infections have been falling in recent years, with just 1.3 million new cases recorded in 2023, a 60 per cent decline since the virus peaked in 1995.

  Health

  Feb 10
  
• Advertisement
• Manitoba HIV diagnoses up 130%: HIV program

  New HIV diagnoses in Manitoba have increased 130 per cent in two years, according to data from the Manitoba HIV Program.

  Health

  Dec 1, 2024
• Advertisement
• B.C.’s HIV, AIDS rates hit historic lows 6 months ago. So why are they rising again?

  Dr. Julio Montaner said more often than not, people were coming into the province with HIV diagnoses from elsewhere in Canada or abroad.

  Health

  Sep 25, 2024
• Gene discovery by Canadian researchers ‘major breakthrough’ in HIV research: PHAC

  PHAC researchers and partners found the genetic variants that impact a human gene called CHD1L, which restricts HIV replication. It's a major breakthrough in HIV research.

  Health

  Aug 2, 2023
• Guelph CHC expanding HIV and gender-affirming care with recent funding

  The Guelph Community Health Centre announced during the annual general meeting last Thursday that it received $1 million in base funding from the province.

  Canada

  Jun 26, 2023
• J&J scraps HIV vaccine trial: ‘Not the outcome we had hoped for’

  The trial involved administering two different types of a shot, which uses a cold-causing virus to deliver the genetic code of HIV, spread over four vaccination visits in a year.

  Health

  Jan 18, 2023
• World AIDS Day: HIV activists hopeful for end to backsliding on infections, stigma

  The Public Health Agency of Canada estimated that 62,790 people in Canada were living with HIV in 2020, and that 10 per cent of them didn't know they had the virus.

  Health

  Dec 1, 2022
• Advertisement
• Canada’s response to AIDS lagging, activists say ahead of international conference

  Canadian HIV and AIDS organizations say an international AIDS conference opening in Montreal this week is shining a light on Canada's lagging response to the disease.

  Health

  Jul 26, 2022
• Advertisement
• Canada should commit $1.2B to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria: advocates

  The Global Fund has asked donor nations for US$18 billion in funding over the next three years, which is a nearly 30 per cent increase from the funds it asked for three years ago.

  Health

  Jul 24, 2022