Canada’s Minister of Health calls for end to stigma on World AIDS Day

Every year on December 1, World AIDS Day reminds us to recognize the strength and resilience of people living with HIV, to remember those we have lost and to acknowledge both the important progress that has been made in addressing HIV and AIDS and the work that remains to be done. In Canada, it is estimated that more than 63,000 people are living with HIV and AIDS, and that 1 in every 7 people infected with the disease has not been diagnosed or is unaware of their infection. Today, to recognize World AIDS Day, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, officially endorsed the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) campaign that promotes new scientific evidence that indicates that when an individual is being treated for HIV and maintains a suppressed viral load, there is effectively no risk of sexual transmission. Canada is the first government to sign on to this global campaign that will directly improve the lives of people living...