12/01/2008 HIV-positive youth face additional challenges.

In Toronto, the scale of the AIDS epidemic may not be comparable to the situation abroad, but the impact on infected persons cannot be underestimated.

11/24/2008 HIV+25 Survey Asks Where Are we in Canada Twenty-Five Years After Discovery of the Virus

Twenty-five years after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a large majority of Canadians living with HIV/AIDS still feel stigmatized and there is still a strong need for further and continuing education, outreach and better treatments.

11/20/2008 Toronto Health Officials Tackle Rise in Number of HIV, STI Cases

Toronto public health officials are struggling with a rise in sexually transmitted infections, with a spike in chlamydia cases and an ongoing outbreak of syphilis that refuses to go away.

11/18/2008 Research from ACT and the University of Windsor on communication

The researchers stress that the HIV-positive respondents wanted to avoid HIV transmission. However they perceived themselves to be in settings where their prospective sexual partners would have the same assumptions and understandings of what was going on.

11/13/2008 More countries make spreading HIV a crime

An increasing number of countries worldwide are making spreading HIV a crime, according to a new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

11/12/2008 Scientists revive immune cells of HIV patients.

A Canadian-U.S. research team has discovered a way to rejuvenate key virus-killing immune cells that become "exhausted" after a person is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

11/10/2008 UN urges India to decriminalise homosexuality

The United Nations has urged India to decriminalise homosexuality, saying it would help the fight against HIV/AIDS by allowing intervention programmes like the successful ones in China and Brazil.

11/06/2008 HIV-positive travellers still refused entry to USA.

While the law may have changed in the US, the old regulations are still in place.

11/04/2008 Experimental HIV vaccine may have increased infection risk: study.

Trials of a once-promising experimental HIV vaccine were cut short in 2007 because the drug may have increased the likelihood of HIV infection rather than preventing it, according to a new study.

10/29/2008 Fashion Cares Resurrected

Zoe Whittall details the return of Canada’s most notoriously glamourous fundraiser.

10/14/2008 New HIV prevention campaign launches in Ontario

Ontario’s Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance launches campaign to fight HIV stigma that impacts the health of gay men, discussion of HIV status and understanding of HIV risk.