Politics

The NDP’s Randall Garrison discusses being a gay politician on Parliament Hill for over a decade

The out MP talks international human rights work, the blood ban, HIV funding and more

By Dale Smith

Health

Injectable PrEP is safe and effective in preventing HIV/AIDS among trans women, study finds

Trans women can safely continue HRT while using injectable PrEP, researchers say

By Diamond Yao

TV & Film

‘Freedom From Everything’ is a puzzling documentary with too many pieces

Mike Hoolboom’s documentary reinvents Hito Steyerl’s essay of the same name and connects COVID-19 to the AIDS crisis

By Michelle Krasovitski

Sexual Health

The pandemic has drastically changed the sex lives of young adults, report says

LetsStopAIDS research reveals Canadian youth are now less likely to use condoms or be treated for sexually transmitted infections

By Sydney Bauer

Politics

International AIDS Conference a time for Trudeau government to live up to its rhetoric

State of Canadian funding for HIV/AIDS is dismal

By Dale Smith

HIV/AIDS

These 39 countries are still criminalizing people for transmitting HIV during sex

A new report finds that more than 270 people have been arrested for HIV transmission since 2019

By Nico Lang

Music

The thrilling horrors of singer Diamanda Galás

Thirty-five years after launching her harrowing AIDS trilogy with the release of “The Divine Punishment,” Galás turns her unflinching gaze at the depravity of the First World War

By Jesse Locke

HIV/AIDS

These two countries just loosened restrictions on HIV-positive troops serving in the military

Advocates say there’s more work left to be done

By Nico Lang

History

The first person reported dead from AIDS in Canada was an anonymous gay man from Windsor who died in 1982

Teacher and local historian Walter Cassidy became obsessed with the person behind this frightening statistic. So he set out to find him

By Walter Cassidy

History

As HIV/AIDS ravaged Montreal in the ’90s, gay men were getting murdered—and trying to fight back

Season 3 of CBC’s “The Village” takes on the Montreal murders in the midst of the AIDS crisis

By Mel Woods

Health

Canada’s new blood donation policy is a step forward—but there’s still work to be done

In an interview with political columnist Dale Smith, Minister Marci Ien responded to some criticism of the new policy

By Dale Smith

Justice

The U.S. military will no longer be able to discharge service members for being HIV-positive

LGBTQ2S+ advocates call the historic decision “one of the strongest judicial rulings in over two decades for people living with HIV”

By Nico Lang

Health

These groups are distributing life-saving medications to people living with HIV in Ukraine

Amid the ongoing crisis, organizations like WHO and UNAIDS hope to provide a year’s supply of anti-retrovirals to HIV-positive Ukrainians

By Nico Lang

Politics

Zimbabwe decriminalizes HIV transmission in major step forward for LGBTQ+ equality

Activists have called on the country to repeal other anti-LGBTQ+ laws that make it more difficult to address the ongoing HIV epidemic

By Nico Lang

Health

A woman becomes third person to have been cured of HIV

The patient’s race, sex and age has led experts in the medical field to express confidence about the possibility of curing more people than previously imagined

By Ursula Muñoz S.

Politics

Why Jason Kenney’s vile HIV/AIDS comparison struck a nerve

OPINION: The Alberta premier compared the experience of unvaccinated people now to those with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

By Mel Woods

Health

Queer activists are making sex safer because no one else will

As governments fail to address rising rates of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections, grassroots organizers are turning to off-label treatments to protect their communities

By Kevin Hurren

Justice

This U.S. state just repealed its discriminatory laws criminalizing HIV transmission

New Jersey joins nine other states in striking down its outdated laws

By Yvonne Marquez