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Margarite Sanchez margaritesanchez at gmail.com
Sat Oct 29 22:38:45 PDT 2011 

I just found here a video about Minneh, one of our brave and beautiful ViVA
women.
See below "*How I gradually accepted my HIV status*". Well worth watching.
cheers,
Margarite

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*POSITIVE LIVING BC news*

   - Positive Gathering <#1332797f4d792992_node_143>
   - Red Ribbon Breakfast <#1332797f4d792992_node_360>
   - Community Forum: Beyond Convention <#1332797f4d792992_node_884>

*Canada HIV news*

   - Criminalization biggest threat to HIV prevention, conference
hears<#1332797f4d792992_node_957>
   - Ottawa infection advisory reveals no 'smoking
gun'<#1332797f4d792992_node_955>
   - How I gradually accepted my HIV status <#1332797f4d792992_node_953>

*International HIV news*

   - Chimp to Man to history books: The Path of
AIDS<#1332797f4d792992_node_956>
   - Zambian was key to reshaping the global response to HIV
   <#1332797f4d792992_node_958>
   - Early HIV treatment dramatically increases survival in patients
   co-infected with Tuberculosis <#1332797f4d792992_node_977>
   - Expanding HIV treatment for discordant couples could significantly
   reduce global HIV epidemic <#1332797f4d792992_node_978>
   - Ask Me, Tell Me <#1332797f4d792992_node_980>
   - UK officials investigate TB Joshua's HIV/AIDS miracle
cures<#1332797f4d792992_node_979>
   - HIV-positive US man failed to use protection<#1332797f4d792992_node_954>

  Positive Gathering

[image: Positive Gathering 2011]

Positive Gathering is a three-day, all-inclusive event where HIV-positive
British Columbians come together to learn and share with their peers in a
safe, open and constructive environment.

This year, the conference is about EMPOWERing our community and takes place
on *December 2-4, 2011* at the *Coast Plaza Hotel, 1763 Comox Street,
Vancouver BC*.

The peer delivered interactive workshops are designed for HIV-positive
people to enhance their quality of life through open dialogue about the
shared experience of this disease. The breakaway sessions and gala dinner
are great opportunities for networking and having fun!

*The deadline for registration is November 15, 2011*.

Read more <http://www.positivelivingbc.org/event/positive-gathering>
 Red Ribbon Breakfast

[image: Red Ribbon Breakfast]

The Red Ribbon Breakfast takes place on *2 November 2011*. It is a free
event that provides information about POSITIVE LIVING BC and its members,
and is an inspirational, informative not-to-be missed fundraising breakfast.

This year Rev Gary Paterson is MCing and there will be an inspirational
video presentation featuring 3 of our members, the theme being our new
identity as POSITIVE LIVING BC and what this means to our membership.

Read more <http://www.positivelivingbc.org/event/red-ribbon-breakfast>
 Community Forum: Beyond Convention

*Beyond Convention: A community forum examining integrative, complementary,
and alternative health approaches to living with HIV.*

Join us for a scientific, critical, and evidence-based examination of
integrative, complementary, and alternative approaches to living with HIV:

   - Why are so many people skeptical of conventional medicine and
   contemporary treatment modalities?
   - Can traditional medicines be incorporated into mainstream medicine?
   - What complementary approaches exist for people with HIV?
   - And what services are available at Positive Living BC?

Get these questions answered and more!

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/event/community-forum-beyond-convention>
 Criminalization biggest threat to HIV prevention, conference hears

[image: Glyn Townson]

Criminalizing the nondisclosure of HIV status prior to sex could have a
stigmatizing effect on the queer community and defeat health initiatives
aimed at slowing the spread of the disease, a Vancouver conference heard
Oct 12.

*"The issue of criminalization is probably the biggest threat to HIV
prevention we're facing right now," *Dr Mark Tyndall, head of infectious
diseases at Ottawa Hospital, said. The threat of prosecution for
nondisclosure can include stigmatization, people not getting tested, HIV
people being less willing to disclose out of fear, the encouragement of
greater anonymous sex and an increase of sexual transmission in jails, he
elaborated.

*"Criminal prosecutions are proceeding in a legal vacuum,"* Tyndall added,
pointing out the irony that courts are evidence-driven yet have no evidence
to show that criminalization works.

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111018/criminalization-biggest-threat-hiv-prevention-conference-hears>
 Ottawa infection advisory reveals no 'smoking gun'

Ottawa health officials are trying to ensure they have *"covered the
bases"*by warning almost 7,000 people who had procedures done at a
medical
facility over a 10-year period that they may have been exposed to
infections like HIV, says an expert in infection control.

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111018/ottawa-infection-advisory-reveals-no-smoking-gun>
 How I gradually accepted my HIV status

When Minneh Kamau Bushby left for Canada in 1996 to attend a two-week
HIV/AIDS conference, she had another mission in mind- to go and die in a
faraway land, away from her family.

She didn’t die, and three weeks ago, Minneh visited her family in Lari, for
the first time in 15 years.* “When I left I had been diagnosed with AIDS in
1993. I had seen a lot of people dying in the hospital and they looked
horrific and I thought I don’t want this to happen to me,” *she explains.

She had kept her condition a safely guarded secret from her family.

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111018/how-i-gradually-accepted-my-hiv-status>
 Chimp to Man to history books: The Path of AIDS

Our story begins sometime close to 1921, somewhere between the Sanaga River
in Cameroon and the Congo River in the former Belgian Congo. It involves
chimps and monkeys, hunters and butchers,* “free women”* and prostitutes,
syringes and plasma-sellers, evil colonial lawmakers and decent colonial
doctors with the best of intentions.

And a virus that, against all odds, appears to have made it from one ape in
the central African jungle to one Haitian bureaucrat leaving Zaire for home
and then to a few dozen men in California gay bars before it was even
noticed — about 60 years after its journey began.

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111018/chimp-man-history-books-path-aids>
 Zambian was key to reshaping the global response to HIV

In July, 2004, Winstone Zulu sat on a stage next to Nelson Mandela. At the
International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Winstone and Mandela spoke to
delegates about the urgent need for new research into tuberculosis, a
disease both of them had survived. When Mandela had the floor, he turned to
Winstone beside him and thanked him for his tireless activism, fighting for
affordable treatment for HIV-AIDS and TB.

After the session, as the South African leader was leaving the hall,
Winstone leaned against the wall beside me, glowing from the up-close
encounter with an icon. *“I want to live that long,”* he said, half to me,
half a pledge to himself. *“Long enough to have so many lines on my face.”*

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111018/zambian-was-key-reshaping-global-response-hiv>
 Early HIV treatment dramatically increases survival in patients
co-infected with Tuberculosis

*Cambodian study demonstrates that starting antiretroviral treatment two
weeks, not two months, after TB treatment increases survival 33 percent*

Timing is everything when treating patients with both HIV and tuberculosis.
Starting HIV therapy in such patients within two weeks of TB treatment,
rather than two months as is the current practice, increases survival by 33
percent, according to a large-scale clinical trial in Cambodia led by
researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Immune Disease Institute
(IDI).

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111020/early-hiv-treatment-dramatically-increases-survival-patients-co-infected-tuberculosis>
 Expanding HIV treatment for discordant couples could significantly reduce
global HIV epidemic

A new study uses a mathematical model to predict the potential impact of
expanding treatment to discordant couples on controlling the global HIV
epidemic - in these couples one partner has HIV infection and the other
does not.

The research conducted at ICAP at Columbia University's Mailman School of
Public Health and the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at
University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) is the first to predict the
effect of the expansion of such treatment in couples on the HIV epidemic in
certain African countries.

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111020/expanding-hiv-treatment-discordant-couples-could-significantly-reduce-global-hiv-epidemi>
 Ask Me, Tell Me

Public Health Solutions <http://www.healthsolutions.org/> (PHS) is a
nonprofit organization that addresses critical public health needs in New
York City, including HIV/AIDS care and prevention, and "HIV Big
Deal<http://www.hivbigdeal.org/>"
is one of their most exciting HIV initiatives, a series of unique HIV
prevention videos.

In 2006, PHS launched the first video. "The Morning After" tells the story
of Josh, a gay man who believes he needs to get an HIV test. A PHS
study<http://www.healthsolutions.org/documents/pulse/PulseStudy_Vol_6_Num_1.pdf>showed
that the video had an impact on behavior among at-risk men who have
sex with men.

Now, PHS has just launched the third video in the series. "Ask Me, Tell Me"
follows Josh as he wrestles with issues of disclosure and safer sex.

Read more <http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111020/ask-me-tell-me>
 UK officials investigate TB Joshua's HIV/AIDS miracle cures

UK health officials are now investigating the Nigerian Evangelical preacher
Pastor T.B. Joshua, after allegations that he has been advising his HIV
positive followers to stop taking their medications and rely exclusively on
the *"power of prayer."*

BBC reports the investigation also includes some other Evangelical churches
in Britain whose leaders have been making claims of HIV/AIDS *"miracles."*

According to the report, the investigation was prompted after some AIDS
patients died after they stopped taking their AIDS medications at the
advice of their church pastors. Reports say at least three people have died
in London after they stopped taking their AIDS medication on advice of
their pastors, TB Joshua, millionaire preacher and head of Synagogue Church
of All Nations (SCOAN), is well known to Nigerians and millions of other
people for his expansive claims of *"miracle healing."*

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111020/uk-officials-investigate-tb-joshuas-hiv-aids-miracle-cures>
 HIV-positive US man failed to use protection

The attorney for an HIV-positive Minnesota man found guilty of passing the
virus during sex said he would appeal the jury verdict against his client.

Attorney Landon Ascheman said prosecutors used a vague interpretation of a
16-year-old state law to convict Daniel James Rick of attempted
first-degree assault, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

The jury that convicted Rick, 30, was convinced he told his partner he was
HIV-positive but found him guilty anyway.

Ascheman said the jury determined what mattered was Rick's failure to use
protection. "*Because he didn't use any protection, it didn't matter if he
told or not,*" Ascheman said. "*Reading the statute exactly as it is, they
were told they essentially had to convict him.*"

Read more<http://www.positivelivingbc.org/news/111018/hiv-positive-us-man-failed-use-protection>







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