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More than 31,000 members have signed up Over 30,000 Gaydar users opt in to STI notifications Backers of a new service which asks online dating site users to opt-in to receive updates from... 1 March
The Kootenay Co-Op is helping out ANKORS with a new program. Kootenay Co-Op teams up to help ANKORS program ANKORS is a local organization that assists some of our most vulnerable community members and has... 1 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
Deadly doses of prison for drug users with HIV Blaming sick people for system failures is an old problem in public health, particularly when... 1 March
US report: HIV rate down in needle-drug users There's some good news from the AIDS front: fewer needle drug users are testing positive for HIV.... 1 March
Condoms! China to promote condoms to cap HIV/AIDS cases China hopes to cap the number of people living with HIV/AIDS at 1.2 million by 2015, up... 1 March
Ring the bells that still can ring Health is Freedom One hundred years before the onslaught of AIDS, James Kent, a brilliant philosopher and homeopathic... 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
Ivory waiting to be exported from what is now Cameroon Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago We are unlikely to ever know all the details of the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But a series of... 1 March
Similar treatment is already free in Scotland and Wales Free HIV treatment for foreign nationals in England welcomed A move to allow some overseas visitors in Enland to receive free treatment for HIV in the same way... 28 February
Doctors won’t face lawsuit for alleged slowness in diagnosing couple’s HIV A Fraser Valley couple have failed in their attempt to sue two doctors for negligence because they... 28 February
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
Robin Gorna Four Thought: The world is losing the political will to deal with AIDS Robin Gorna, who has spent 26 years working globally to combat AIDS, fears that at a time when we... 24 February
The high levels of poverty in informal settlements of Namibian larger towns has HIV funds in Namibia drying up Dwindling donor support for Namibia’s HIV/Aids programme has sent waves of panic in government... 23 February
A new Vancouver Asian Canadian queer-oriented health organization will address c Vancouver professionals create new Asian Canadian queer-inclusive health organization A gaping hole in culturally specific health and social resources was left when the Asian Society... 23 February
Jane Pia Bangbe, Western Equatoria Director of HIV/AIDS Commission 8000 people with HIV/AIDS in South Sudan affected as funds get suspended The South Sudan HIV/AIDS Commission Director in Western Equatoria State (WES), Jane Pia Bangbe says... 23 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
Malawi Cash payments help cut HIV infection rate in young women Regular small cash payments to girls and young women can enable them to resist the attentions of... 21 February
Sexual rights of HIV-positive transwomen I'm puzzled by the question of what the sexual rights of HIV-positive transgender women are. To me... 21 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
Zuhura Hussein in Nairobi’s Kibera slum Kenya's startup boom Local programmers and homegrown business models are helping to realize the vast promise of using... 21 February
Sir Elton John: We must end the greed of these corporations Remember Stella? No? Well, let me remind you. On World Aids Day in 2010 when I was guest editor of... 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
Going public the next frontier for scientists American Association for the Advancement of Science's leading thinkers in Vancouver to consider how... 16 February