Dr. Eric Cohen is one of the principal investigators of CanCURE, the Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise. CanCURE began in 2013. It aims to understand the persistence of HIV during antiretroviral therapy (ARV) and to …
People living with HIV are getting older due both to extended survival and to an increase in new diagnoses over the age of 50. Dr. …
Ten years ago, few people over 50 were being treated for HIV; today this group makes up about one third of the HIV-positive population. This is due to more effective therapy, and also to more people …
Andrew Zealley, a doctoral student at York University, is an artist living with HIV who has been making art about AIDS since 1988. He talked about two of his bodies of work: Disco …
Dan McGowan from the University of Pittsburgh presented emerging possibilities for HIV prevention.
Sexual health education, condoms, and male circumcision (which reduces a man’s risk of acquiring HIV by 50% with one procedure) have …
Dr. Evan Collins, a staff psychiatrist at the Immunodeficiency Clinic of the University Health Network, provided an overview of Ontario research about the mental health of people living with HIV. Mental health conditions are …
Dr. Sean Rourke, Scientific and Executive Director of the OHTN, opened the conference by noting that medical discoveries in HIV have extended the lives of many people. To further improve …
