Shifting landscapes, changing realities
Rob Olver on a labour of love: "Thank you PositiveLite.com. It's been a stellar ride and the lessons learned will go to good use." "All your so-hard facts, painted thinly on the void; Why were you not...
View ArticleIAS names San Francisco and Oakland hosts of AIDS 2020
Over 50 Bay Area, US & Global Orgs representing key populations oppose AIDS 2020 in San Francisco. Rob Olver reports. 13 March 2018 – The International AIDS Society (IAS) has announced that San...
View ArticleThe joyful struggle
William Matovu of Uganda’s Love to Love Organization in conversation with Rob Olver It was not much more than a year ago that I first wrote about Love to Love Organization for PositiveLite.com, having...
View ArticleU=U: a stigma-smashing new song from Love to Love Organization!
The only things infectious here are the grooves and the grins as Danny and Wiiliam of Love to Love Organization pump up the volume and drive home the message that undetectable really does equal...
View ArticleHappy holidays from all of us at PositiveLite.com!
Rob Olver: "Our best wishes and thanks go out to you all." The holidays are nearly here! I love this time of year, but like a lot of people, I often de-emphasize the “Christmasy” side of it when...
View ArticleSetting our minds to it! Attending the Realize 2017 Forum on HIV and Mental...
Rob Olver picks up a few shots of inspiration at Realize Forum 2017. “Today, by examining from the personal perspective of PLWHIV we want to zero in on what has worked... in terms of accessing...
View ArticleSOS Venezuela: ARV’s urgently needed.
Rob Olver speaks with ICASO Executive Director, Mary Ann Torres about her efforts to mobilize a Canadian response to the humanitarian crisis ongoing in Venezuela. Just a decade ago, Venezuela's AIDS...
View ArticleSite upgrades at PositiveLite.com!
PositiveLite.com is upgrading its site. PositiveLite.com is currently upgrading to new software and introducing a mobile version. It's possible that you may see some temporary disruption and out of...
View ArticleBrenda Musenga and the KUTUSA Ladies: fighting stigma and forging community...
Robert Olver in conversation with Zambian HIV activist, Brenda Musenga. Brenda Musenga is a determined woman. I’d had a sense of that already from reading this story by Paul Shalala, about a group of...
View ArticleA Canada-led international Indigenous initiative towards global HIV, TB and...
Rob Olver in conversation with Ken Clement, CEO of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) At AIDS2016, in Durban, South Africa, Canadian Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott made a commitment to...
View ArticleRethinking justice with renewed hope
Rob Olver attends the 2017 Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights and comes away with a sense of cautious optimism. So there I was, getting up at three in the morning once again in order to get to...
View ArticleCriminalization of HIV non-disclosure: is the tide turning?
Rob Olver interviews Edwin J. Bernard, Global Co-ordinator of the HIV Justice Network at "Rethinking Justice 2017 Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights One of the things that made the “Rethinking...
View ArticleA Canada-led international Indigenous initiative towards global HIV, TB and...
Rob Olver in conversation with Ken Clement, CEO of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) At AIDS2016, in Durban, South Africa, Canadian Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott made a commitment to...
View ArticleRethinking justice with renewed hope
Rob Olver attends the 2017 Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights and comes away with a sense of cautious optimism. So there I was, getting up at three in the morning once again in order to get to...
View ArticleCriminalization of HIV non-disclosure: is the tide turning?
Rob Olver interviews Edwin J. Bernard, Global Co-ordinator of the HIV Justice Network at "Rethinking Justice 2017 Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights One of the things that made the “Rethinking...
View ArticleZoe Saldana's stunning performance in Sia's HIV video will have you in tears
Sia's new video, "Free Me" is an achingly beautiful tour de force. Sia’s gorgeous new song, “Free Me”, and the even more gorgeous video that goes with it both aim to spread awareness for the #endHIV...
View ArticleAttending #HealtheVoices2017: a conference like no other.
Rob Olver reports back on attending HealtheVoices17, a conference of online health advocates held in Chicago by Janssen & Janssen. I applied, but didn't expect to go. HealtheVoices is a very...
View ArticleAttending CAHR2017 as a CATIE rapporteur
Rob Olver reports back on #CAHR2017 As I prepared to attend CAHR2017 in Montreal I was elated, but a bit nervous as well. I hadn’t qualified for a community scholarship but had been accepted as a...
View ArticleA forum on HIV, rehabilitation and episodic illness: a personal account.
Rob Olver goes to Envision Forum 2017, presented by Bruce House in Ottawa on March 22-23. "Since it was established in 1988, Bruce House has provided critical resources and support to Ottawa residents...
View ArticleIs HIV stigma killing us?
Rob Olver investigates “Stigma and suicide among gay and bisexual men living with HIV”, a study by Olivier Ferlatte, Travis Salway, John L. Oliffe & Terry Trussler and finds the answer to be an...
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