What’s New?
Location: RHAC Boardroom #30-186 King St, London ON
RHAC is launching a new clinic at 186 King Street to prescribe PrEP: the HIV prevention drug! PrEP is a medication that one can take daily to prevent HIV. PrEP is highly effective when used consistently and correctly. We are happy to announce a partnership with SpecialtyRx to be able to offer this to the community, with a nurse practitioner who will be accepting clients twice a month as of June.
This event is a FREE presentation that will go over the ins and outs of PrEP, and provide an overview of the services we will offer. If you or someone you know is interested in PrEP, or if you’re a service provider, this is a perfect opportunity to learn about our new service!
Please RSVP via the EventBrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/prep-clinic-launch-tickets-46323755600
PrEP Clinic Launch Facebook Event
Contact Kody, our Gay Men’s HIV Prevention Worker at kcarlson@hivaidsconnection.ca for more information.
A Heartfelt Evening, hosted by and in support of John Gordon Home, is on Tuesday, May 29th. Funds raised through this event will contribute to providing essential items and services for residents transitioning out of JGH, and back into the community, based on need. These items may include linens, beds, small appliances, other common household itemsand related moving costs.
For more information, visit the event for details.
Join us for the World AIDS Day Vigil in London at Trinity United Church on December 1 (7-8 PM). The event (not including the audience) will also be live-streamed on RHAC's official Facebook.
Join us for the World AIDS Day Vigil in Stratford at Community of Christ on November 30 (7-8:30 PM). The event (not including the audience) will also be live-streamed on RHAC's official Facebook.
Not all sex has the same risk.
Your risk of picking up or passing on HIV depends on the kind of sex you have, your HIV status, your partners HIV status and condom use.
MediaED.org is meant as tool to help gay guys calculate the relative risk of the sex they are having.
In a critical declaration on HIV/AIDS signed last week, UN member states made laudatory pledges toward a host of ambitious goals, most notably aiming to get 15 million people on antiretrovirals by 2015.
The declaration won enthusiastic approval from major AIDS organizations, as well as from mainstream media outlets like the New York Times.
What member states “forgot” to do in that document, however, is include access to medically appropriate housing as a key structural tool in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS.
The omission reflects continued failure by AIDS activists and governments to recognize the crucial role that safe housing will play in ending AIDS. It also demonstrates a flawed emphasis on individual approaches to stopping the virus, rather than a recognition that we need to address larger environmental issues—like homelessness and poverty—to end this crisis.
TORONTO - One in four new HIV infections in Ontario are among women, a new survey shows.
Even though there have been significant advances in HIV care, 25% of new HIV infections from 2006 to 2008 were in women, according to a health study by researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and St. Michael's Hospital.
Marvelous Muchenje is one of the 4,700 women in Ontario living with HIV, most of whom contracted the disease through sexual contact.
"For women in some communities, it can be difficult to negotiate safe sex," said Muchenje, 38, who is originally from Zimbabwe.
Women who emigrated from a country plagued by HIV make up more than half of the new infections in Ontario. "HIV still has a stigma and some people don't disclose to their sexual partner," Muchenje said...