Category: Peer Leadership

Statement from the People living with HIV and communities affected by HIV in support of The Vancouver Consensus (2015) About the Vancouver Consensus (2015) The Vancouver Consensus (2015) is an urgent call to world leaders, donors, governments, clinicians and civil society to ensure that all people living with HIV have access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment… Read more »

Interviews for Positive Living BC’s fall healing retreat start July 21. Healing retreats are an opportunity for people living with HIV from all walks of life, ages and cultures to come on retreat. They provide a personally valuable, fun and relaxing opportunity to be with other PLHIV and know you are not alone. The fall… Read more »

The Positive Living Society of BC’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, August 20, 2015, at the Chateau Granville Hotel, 1100 Granville Street, Vancouver.  The AGM is being held in conjunction with a Community Forum presented by Jonathan Postnikoff entitled, “Finding the Cure – How Close Are We?”. Registration beings at 5:30 pm… Read more »

Interior Health has launched a new campaign to show how advances in HIV treatment and care have improved the lives of those living with the disease. The campaign aims to break down stereotypes that prevent people from being tested and accessing life-saving treatment. The “HIV Then & Now” campaign builds on the momentum of Interior… Read more »

Last week, Theratechnologies Inc. began marketing a new medicine called tesamorelin (Egrifta)—licensed for the treatment of excess belly fat in some HIV-positive people. Tesamorelin causes the body to produce growth hormone and, as a result, most tesamorelin users can lose some degree of belly fat.