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Positively Positive - Living with HIV/AIDS:
HIV/AIDS News Archive - February 2020
UNAIDS and China working together during the COVID-19 outbreak to ensure that people living with HIV continue to get treatment
GENEVA, 19 February 2020 - A survey of people living with HIV has found that the current coronavirus disease outbreak, known as COVID-19, is having a major impact on the lives of people living with HIV in the country.
In the survey, nearly a third (32.6%) of people living with HIV reported that, because of the lockdowns and restrictions on movement in some places in China, they were at risk of running out of their HIV treatment in the coming days—of these, almost half (48.6%) said they didn’t know where to collect their next antiretroviral therapy refill from. However, a close partnership between the government and community partners is determined to ensure that access to life-saving HIV treatment is not interrupted as the country fights to get COVID-19 under control.
Deep reservoirs of 'sleeper' viruses are roadblocks to HIV cure
FEBRUARY 11, 2020 - The major obstacle to curing HIV is a vast reservoir of "latent, replication-competent proviruses," which have infiltrated the very cells that help orchestrate the immune response.
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HIV update - 5th February 2020
February 5, 2020 - A round-up of the latest HIV news, for people living with HIV in the UK and beyond.
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HIV organization Positive Living BC to end its services in Vancouver after operating for over 30 years
February 7th, 2020 - by Craig Takeuchi - A local nonprofit organization that arose during the onset of the AIDS crisis—and amid far more prevalent discrimination against HIV–positive and LGBT people—is coming to a close.
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