By: Eric Glare

Eric Glare — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 03:04:10 +0000

I think we are in an era that is much more than post-crisis. We are in the era of treatment as prevention (TasP) and PrEP, the era of ending HIV transmission. We have the tools in our hands to end the HIV epidemic and our progress is dependent on the effort and resources we are willing to put in. Yet this groundbreaking endeavour that constitutes the core of the Government’s Victorian HIV Strategy is barely mentioned in this news article. What is important now is how the stigma from the past contaminates the presence with unfounded fears that mitigate the success of treatments in ending HIV. Surely we are post-post-crisis. This is not a new event and it is a long history of treatment as prevention that has been ignored (eg the Swiss statement in 2008). The representations of now are more like a decade old.

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By: Eric Glare