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Can this innovation change the way people think about HIV?

In 2020, a gay Thai man living with HIV sparked controversy with a Facebook post. He was on antiretroviral therapy and had gotten lab tests to check the level of virus in his blood. Since his viral load was undetectable, he wrote, he was going to stop using condoms.

Category: Feature Tags: AIDS, Focal Countries Collaboration, global-partnership-to-end-all-forms-of-hiv-related-stigma-and-discrimination, HIV, Thailand, U=U, undetectable-untransmittable

Eight countries share strategies to end HIV-related stigma and discrimination

Teams from Botswana, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Mozambique, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia have shared pathways to lowering HIV-related stigma and discrimination as part of a novel learning exchange. From September 17 to 20 in Bangkok, Thailand, community and government partners, together with UN and development partners from each country traded notes on their work to tackle prejudice and rights violations in healthcare, community, education, employment, justice and emergency settings. The teams… Read More

Category: News Tags: AIDS, end inequalities, FCC, Focal Countries Collaboration, Global Partnership, health, HIV, stigma and discrimination