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Positively Positive - Living with HIV/AIDS:
HIV/AIDS News Archive - January 2020
NIH-supported scientists reverse HIV and SIV latency in two animal models
January 22, 2020 - Findings represent progress toward an HIV cure.
In a range of experiments, scientists have reactivated resting immune cells that were latently infected with HIV or its monkey relative, SIV, in cells in the bloodstream and a variety of tissues in animals. As a result, the cells started making copies of the viruses, which could potentially be neutralized by anti-HIV drugs and the immune system. This advance, published today in two papers in the journal Nature, marks progress toward a widely accessible cure for HIV.
Rest in power, Jamie Lee Hamilton
January 14, 2020 by AIDS Activist History - Jamie Lee Hamilton (1955 – 2019) was a trans, Two-Spirit, Indigenous woman, and organizer who fiercely advocated against the past and ongoing criminalization of sex work in Canada. Her work propelled people to notice and think critically about anti-sex work sentiment, and liberal discourses that frame sex workers as victims in need of rescue, rather than as empowered organizers who worked together across multiple issues to resist the erasure of vital histories of sex work in Canada, as well as the violence that such erasure makes possible. Drawing on sex worker activism throughout the 70s-80s—what Hamilton referred to as the “golden age of sex work in Vancouver”—Hamilton’s interview with the AAHP documents powerful histories of organizing across multiple issues, and underscores the importance of resisting isolation and erasure through collective action and intergenerational remembrance practices (T48/3).
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Knowledge is power | Tackling HIV; the CD4 story
Jan 14, 2020 - HIV is a virus that invades the body and attacks its natural defences. But there are treatments available that control the virus so that people living with HIV can lead long and fulfilling lives. We’ve developed a short animation which tells the story of how HIV affects the body and how treatments fight back.
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