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A selection of different condoms displayed at Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition. Sex exhibit controversy draws out curious crowd A flood of complaints about a controversial sex education exhibit at the Canada Science and... 22 May
Should hiding HIV status always be a crime? Canadians living with HIV should not face jail time for keeping their medical condition from sexual... 18 May
National News: International AIDS Vaccine Day More than 34 million people around the world suffer with HIV and AIDS―95 percent of them in... 18 May
Guelph tattoo artist upset over public health advisory GUELPH — Shannyn Moss claims an advisory issued by public health Tuesday urging any of Moss’s... 18 May
Blood-filled needles create anxiety in Sherbrooke SHERBROOKE, QUE.—Patrick Beaudette’s nightmare happened mid-afternoon in the most unexpected of... 18 May
Ottawa has second chance to save millions of lives Canadians want to take concrete action on behalf of those in developing countries who are... 16 May
Regina General Hospital offers HIV, hepatitis tests to ICU patients- Pilot project in place for next six months A test program at Regina's General Hospital to identify cases of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C is... 16 May
Canadian cohort shows viral suppression most likely with atazanavir/ritonavir-based HIV treatment after 6 months Atazanavir/ritonavir strongest among people with a history of injecting drug use Antiretroviral... 15 May
Changes go hand-in-hand with reforms Doctors serve their patients best when they focus their energy on treating disease based on... 15 May
Food Safety for People with Weakened Immune Systems Health Canada is reminding Canadians of the importance of food safety for people with weakened... 27 March
"We have the responsibility to look globally to see what we can contribute to ex John Greyson looks back In celebration of the nearly 30-year career of award-winning filmmaker, writer and activist John... 27 March
Shari Margolese Patients living with HIV are dying in denial For four years Shari Margolese has been in phone contact with a woman who lives somewhere in rural... 23 March
Condom use was highest among those aged 15 to 17. Condom use is increasing among teens Canadian teens and young adults appear to be using condoms more often than they used to, Statistics... 22 March
James Wilton (CATIE) Understanding risk: A conversation CATIE’s James Wilton in interviewed about the tricky topic of communicating risk in the age of... 22 March
Online infection? The downside of online dating: more STD's The growing spread of sexually transmitted disease in Canada may be at least partly the result of... 14 March
Riaz Sayani-Mulji has been trying to get McMaster University to join the CFS End Gay blood ban divides McMaster campus Canadian Federation of Students rep says 87 institutions have joined End the Ban campaign The... 6 March
Portable cytometer that works like a simple diabetes test HIV testing produces results in minutes and is cheaper It looks no more complex than a supermarket scanner. But the portable lab device created by... 6 March
David Furnish and Sir Elton John Elton John will headline Fashion Cares in September Event will benefit both ACT and Elton John's AIDS Foundation Fashion Cares is back, and this year... 6 March
Photo courtesy of almostsummersky/Flickr Creative Commons Loneliness, isolation among struggles of Saskatchewan HIV patients While the recent HIV epidemic in Saskatchewan has made headlines - the rate of annual new... 1 March
Technology increases sexually transmitted infection awareness in youth Adolescents engage in disproportionate risky behaviors relative to adults. One consequence of these... 1 March
Bill 398 Not letting school get in the way of our education Why students should support global access to meds In first year, I naively thought that upon... 28 February
HIV-positive Edmonton teen avoids jail for unprotected sex A 17-year-old girl has been given a conditional discharge for having unprotected sex with two... 22 February
A woman pins a red ribbon on her shawl Funding squeeze, apathy risk another half century of AIDS With enough money spent in the right way, the world could soon reduce new HIV infections to zero,... 21 February
An Afghan boy stands in his family's opium poppy field on March 19, 2009 Afghanistan's toxic cocktail of drugs, graft, mafia It's below freezing, but the Afghan lies rigid in the snow of Kabul. He doesn't move. His arms and... 21 February
Winnipeg immigrant deported for failing to disclose HIV-positive status to partners A Winnipeg immigrant convicted for failing to tell his sex partners he was HIV-positive has been... 20 February