Resources
Accurate, up-to-date information on HIV and AIDS, Hepatitis C (HCV) and other STBBIs, including the U=U campaign, organized by community and topic to help you find what you need.
Accurate, up-to-date information on HIV and AIDS, Hepatitis C (HCV) and other STBBIs, including the U=U campaign, organized by community and topic to help you find what you need.
HIV Edmonton in good faith provides information resources to help people living with HIV and AIDS who wish to manage their own health care in partnership with their care providers. Information accessed through or published or provided by HIV Edmonton, however, is not to be considered medical advice. Remember that it's best to consult your Doctor or call Healthlink at 811 when seeking advice on your sexual and reproductive health decisions.
The U=U campaign aims to spread awareness that medications for HIV are extremely effective.
U=U stands for “Undetectable equals Untransmittable”. And means that a person living with HIV, who is on effective treatment, cannot sexually transmit HIV to others.
Current HIV medications (AKA: antiretroviral treatments) can drastically improve the long-term health of someone living with HIV. Additional to the health benefits of treatment, effective HIV Treatment reduces the risk of HIV transmission by lowering the viral load of a person living with HIV. The more people living with HIV on treatment helps to reduce the number of new HIV infections. This commonly is referred to as “treatment as prevention”.
U=U is an international campaign started by Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) in 2016 through the mobilization of global scientists and health leaders to affirm the science of U=U and advocate for universal healthcare access for people living with HIV. preventionaccess.com
For more information please go to:
HIV factsheet: U=U for health professionals, Canada.ca
U=U: A guide for service providers | CATIE, Canada's source for HIV and hepatitis C information
The Queer & Trans Health Collective (formerly the Edmonton Men's Health Collective) is a local, grassroots health movement run for and by gay, bisexual, queer and trans people.
Visit site →Gay Men's Health Services (part of Family Health Centers of San Diego) provides quality support, education and advocacy for the overall health of gay men.
Visit site →The Body has a HIV and AIDS Resource Centre for Gay Men site so go check it out!
Visit site →HIM: the Health Initiative for Men, a Vancouver based organization dedicated to strengthening the health and well being of all gay men.
Visit site →The Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network homepage.
Visit site →Operating out of Red Deer for over 15 years, Shining Mountains provides a wide range of community services for people living with, affected by or at risk of HIV.
Visit site →Kimamow Atoskanow Foundation (KAF) works together to address HIV and AIDS, addictions and related issues.
Visit site →The Ontario Aboriginal HIV and AIDS Strategy implemented in 1995 to respond to the changing epidemic within the Aboriginal population.
Visit site →Chee Mamuk Aboriginal Program, affiliated with BC Centre for Disease Control, is a provincial program with services and educational resources grounded in community, tradition and science to promote health of Aboriginal communities.
Visit site →ACCHO (African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario): HIV fact sheets, facts and statistics.
Visit site →ICAD, African Communities
Visit site →WHIWH (Women's Health in Women's Hands)
Visit site →Black CAP
Visit site →APAA
Visit site →Young people and AIDS from The Body: a long list of articles on HIV and youth.
Visit site →Sex Ed for the real world: inclusive, comprehensive and smart sexuality information and help for teens and 20 somethings.
Visit site →A site for people aged 15 to 29 with information on HIV and Hepatitis C.
Visit site →Fos Feminista (formerly CHANGE): information on women's health and reproductive rights, especially for women living in developing countries.
Visit site →FHI 360 (formerly Family Health International): contraceptives research and HIV/AIDS prevention projects around the world.
Visit site →A sex ed resource for parents.
Visit site →If you are a person living with HIV and are preparing to move to Edmonton from another province, the following is a list of preparatory items to keep in mind:
For more information on provincial medication coverages, please follow these links: