Bruce Richman ☮️❤️ #UequalsU
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Founding Exec Director of @PreventionAC Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) #UequalsU #HIV + | health equity | 🏳️🌈 he/him 🙋🏻♂️
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🇿🇦Excited that tomorrow night I'm seeing South Africa's Dr.
@sindivanzyl
, one of the most vocal
#UequalsU
activists worldwide & presenter at our AIDS 2018 conference. 🇿🇦 Thank you Dr. Sindi for your brilliance & dedication to ensuring ALL people with w/ HIV know the truth!
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#NormalizingHIVChallenge
Name: Bruce Richman
Age: 51
Children: 🌱🌸🌲
Marital status: Single
HIV status: HIV+ since 2003
ARV: Since 2010, undetectable & can’t pass it on
#UequalsU
Universal access to ARV, care & diagnostics is the foundation to End the Epidemic 🌍
@PreventionAC
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Undetectable = Untransmittable. Don't take my word for it. Read the research and expert consensus:
@PreventionAC
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🇬🇧
#UequalsU
is huge news today on the cover of
@guardian
displacing Brexit ! An honor to be included in the story along with some of my favorite people in the field Dr. Alison Rodger
@drmbrady
@deborahagold
@birdy_tweet
Jens Lundgren and Myron Cohen!
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Wow! I found the
#UequalsU
@pozmagazine
issue on a rack in front of the register at Kansas City
@Walgreens
@gsp_kc
clinic & again later in the city at another
@Walgreens
! Thank you POZ &
@Walgreens
for the largest nationwide circulation of the U=U message in the US! 🇺🇸 🥇
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Dear friend courageous HIV activist Doctor
@sindivanzyl
has been in hospital w/COVID for 6 weeks in South Africa. She's on a ventilator. Her family is burdened not only w/this painful time but w/high hospital bills. To support this shero:
#GiftSindiLife
❤️
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I’m an advocate-activist because all people w/HIV have a right to know the truth about our bodies & have access to effective treatment. On effective treatment, we stay healthy & CAN’T PASS IT ON!
#UequalsU
#ScienceNotStigma
#LeaveNoOneBehind
#cantpassiton
#HealthevoicesLIVE
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❤️ I love wearing this handmade
#UequalsU
shirt from beautiful brilliant activist & educator living w/HIV
@angelina_namiba
A wonderful way to start the new year! Thank you so much Angelina!
@4Mproject
🙏🏽
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How I feel when I tell people with HIV they can’t transmit HIV!!!
#lovewithoutfear
#sexwithoutfear
#babieswithoutfear
#UequalsU
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BREAKING NEWS! Shout out to healthcare providers! Study shows that informing people w/ HIV about
#UequalsU
is associated with better treatment satisfaction, optimal adherence, & viral suppression. More on the study from
@ViiVHC
at
#AIDS2020Virtual
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🇬🇧 Arrived yesterday for the
@BritishHIVAssoc
Annual Conference
#BHIVA2019
. Pinching myself that I get to see so many leaders who spoke out when most of the word was silent - and who won’t stop until
#UequalsU
is a revolution that includes everyone!
#LeaveNoOneBehind
#CantPassItOn
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To me,
#UequalsU
has always been about a new freedom to love without fear. I used to feel so afraid to pass HIV to someone I loved that I didn't allow myself to love. I'm happy to know so many ppl w/HIV who celebrate this day will be experiencing the freedom of U=U tonight! 💕🔥
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🫶🏾 Super excited about all the good that will come from the
@WHO
’s viral suppression policy brief! It’s a game changer for three key points:
1️⃣ The WHO recommends the use of “zero” risk to describe sexual transmission risk when undetectable & taking treatment as prescribed.
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🇨🇦 OMG. Do u know what this means? Canada, the country, has joined
#UequalsU
a movement led by people w/HIV & the people who care about us! We’re blown away by the leadership of
@GPTaylorMRD
& her commitment to people w/HIV and to end the HIV stigma we’ve faced for decades.
If it’s undetectable, it’s untrasmittable! I’m so proud that Canada is the first country to sign on to the U = U consensus statement, a major milestone that will dispel myths, fight stigma and make a meaningful difference for those living with HIV/AIDS!
#WorldAIDSDay
#UequalsU
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If we want to end the HIV epidemic, we must invest in the well-being of ppl w/HIV. Why? Because quality treatment & care keeps ppl w/HIV healthy *AND* ends new transmissions
#hlmaids2021
#UequalsU
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🇩🇪 Thrilled to be with
@susancolehaley
talking intersectionality, equity &
#UequalsU
#SayZero
at
#LifeBeyondHIV
🫶🏾
💜 We need to care for people w/ HIV holistically beyond the numbers & address the unequal unjust social conditions that are the root causes of health disparities
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If we really want to end the epidemic, the HIV field must do better at hiring people who have relevant life experience (or “lived experience”) and impact rather than focusing on requirements of “professional English” or academic degrees.
I am sad to hear from two exceptional
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1999↔️2019 Stress about aging is aging people. If the jockstrap makes you uncomfortable, you might want to unpack it. I work in sexual health.
#agelesssouls
#bodypositive
#sexpositive
#happyinmyskin
#uundies
#uundressed
#uequalsu
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Wow! 🏆Thank you
@jvn
for speaking out about
#UequalsU
to 4.5 MILLION Instagram followers and on the
@TODAYshow
!
@PreventionAC
⭐️⭐️
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🇨🇭🌏LOOK what was lining the streets when I arrived last night in front of my hotel in Basel! Great work Alex!!
@alex1979halle
@Life4meplus
#nohivstigma
#uequalsu
#EACS2019
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💕🇮🇹 Bravo to the Italian organizations that joined together to launch this gorgeous national U=U campaign to fight stigma & raise awareness about the “revolutionary discovery”
#impossibilesbagliare
#ugualeu
#UequalsU
#sayzero
More 👉🏾
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🇳🇱
#ADayWithHIV
22:10 Amsterdam,The Netherlands
With emmy-award winning producer/activist
@KarlJSchmid
for
#FTC2023
and reflecting on the huge progress of
#UequalsU
since we met here at
#AIDS2018
5 years ago! We’ve come so far & yet there is a huge amount of work ahead!
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🕯️Today is a day of intense mixed emotion for many people living with HIV and those who care about us. We have so much hopeful news yet we have lost so much. I hope that anyone who is struggling today can find support - and hope. Know you are not alone
#UequalsU
#WorldAidsDay2021
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Dad & me when he was my age and today! Grateful for this guy’s love & support! I consider him and my mother to also be founders of
#UequalsU
because they helped me start up & cover expenses when we had little to no support trom the establishment.
#RadicalParents
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🫶🏾I’m full of joy to accept this award at
#FTC2023
on behalf of the activists, scientists, clinicians, health officials & donors who have taken U=U from grassroots movement to a global mandate. We did it together!
Thank you
@JoseM_Zuniga
@IAPAC
for your stellar global U=U
#UequalsU
was made reality by science, but even more so by community led by the global
@PreventionAC
.
@IAPAC
&
@FTC2030
President José M. Zuniga presented this year’s FTC Community Leadership Award to Bruce Richman & U=U warriors at Amsterdam reception.
#FTC2023
#FastTrackCities
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#adaywithhiv
for me is working in a car to the airport to fly to Toronto to talk
#HIV
Undetectable=Untransmittable
#UequalsU
. I won’t stop until everyone knows! 🌏
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THANKS
@PeteButtigieg
for sharing the news about
#uequalsu
. First & foremost all of us w/HIV need effective treatment & care for our quality of life. That’s also 100% effective to stop sexual transmission! So, getting all people w/HIV the care we need is the foundation to EtE.
Pete Buttigieg: “Everyone with HIV should be in treatment so they can lead longer and higher quality lives and so they won’t transmit HIV, since we know that U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable)". via
@thedailybeast
@UequalsU
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🗣🗣HUGE NEWS!
@CDC_HIV
committed to completely phase out the use of the murky word “effectively” when describing “no risk” & to use
#UequalsU
! 👇🏾 A new day of clarity & freedom has begun…
Thank you so much
@DrMerminCDC
@dr_demetre
& team for your exceptional leadership!
If you’re living with
#HIV
, being undetectable is one of the best things you can do to stay healthy & means you won’t transmit HIV to your sexual partner, Undetectable=Untransmittable.
What does undetectable mean to you?
#StopHIVTogether
#uequalsu
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✊🏾U=U is radical. Change is not easy in medicine & public health especially when it challenges over 35 years of what we've been told about HIV transmission. Let's work together in '21 to ensure ALL ppl w/ HIV know
#UequalsU
urgently & have the treatment & care to experience it
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It’s pretty awesome to hear the head of the U.S. CDC Dr. Robert Redfield say
#UequalsU
with U=U on the screen behind him at the CDC National HIV Prevention Conference.
#UUMilestone
#NHPC2019
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🙋🏾♂️🙋🏻♂️ Two heads are better than one!
⭐️I’m so excited, honored, relieved, hopeful, grateful to be sharing leadership with the exceptional
@MichealIghodaro
,
@PreventionAC
Interim Co-Executive Director!
🙏🏾
#UequalsU
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🇬🇧 The last few days have been so uplifting getting to know the awesome soulful courageous human
@gareththomas14
and being a part of the inspiring
@THTorguk
event with Prince Harry today. Very grateful to
@ianrgreen
for making these introductions & his tremendous leadership ❤️🇬🇧
Thanks to
@THTorguk
for allowing me to be on the
#HIVcommission
to end any new diagnosis of HIV in England by 2030. Today we voiced the importance of EVERYONE knowing their status. Me and Harry are content because we do know. Do you? If not,you should❤️
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COVID-19 reveals the truth that the world is interconnected as we face the same threat. And it reveals how disconnected we are in our abilities to respond. That false belief in disconnection from each other, animals & the planet is what's destroying us. Maybe now we'll wake up 🌍
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🇧🇪 Mom & I are proudly wearing these to join the
#letstalkpositive2020
campaign & change the narrative about living w/ HIV! We send hugs & thanks to
@ITMantwerp
Vhiva team, Wenne & Cora for these beautiful masks for their new campaign in Belgium!
#UequalsU
❤️ 🇧🇪
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🌍 We confirmed the
#UequalsU
science, we’re getting ppl comfortable w/the concept & now we must use U=U in our advocacy for access to quality care so all ppl living w/HIV can stay healthy & can’t pass it on.
Below are two new resources to help do that in 2022 & beyond!👇🏾(1/3)
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🇬🇧 36 hours in London to have the huge honor of co-chairing
#LifeBeyondHIV
masterclass with brilliant amazing friend & icon
@LucyWanjikuN
#UequalsU
#adaywithhiv
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♥️ For me, Valentine's Day has never been so meaningful. When I was diagnosed almost 20 years ago, I never imagined that I could be intimate with a sexual partner without any fear of passing on HIV. Today, I can. I want that freedom for all ppl living w/HIV
#UequalsU
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🇬🇧 ❤️We are people with HIV speaking truth about our bodies!
#UequalsU
!
@susancolehaley
@angelina_namiba
@ChristabelMK
@BexDeHavilland
#BHIVA2019
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"Sex workers are a great vehicle for sexual health and education. We have to empower them with info about U=U and PrEP etc. Until we stop sex work & HIV criminalization, we can't get that done."
@jacen_zhu
#WeAllAreStars
@ViiVUS
#CS2020YS
#UequalsU
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Let’s
#Equalize
!
Let’s make it a reality for all people living w/HIV to access the information, treatment, care and services to live healthy and be free from passing on HIV!
Everyone wins with
#UequalsU
!
#WorldAIDSDay
#WinWInAgenda
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❤️ I’m really greatful to this beautiful human for using his star power voice to help uplift people w/HIV. We are a beautiful community that deserves loving powerful voices.
#UequalsU
#LeaveNoOneBehind
Sending solidarity & love to everyone trying to navigate their way through life as an HIV+ person. It’s difficult but remember we are LOVED & we are fighting for a fair future for all where stigma doesn’t get in the way of your health and well being.
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🇬🇧 Who will be at Fast Track Cities in September? Can’t wait to get back to see my friends in the city of
#cantpassiton
#uequalsu
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I’m teaching about
#UequalsU
on National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and every day until (1) everyone knows that people w/HIV who are on treatment & undetectable CANNOT sexually pass it on AND (2) all of us have access to treatment & care to get to undetectable
#NGMHAAD2019
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🇬🇧With three titans -
@drmbrady
,
@ianrgreen
Alison Rodger - who changed what it means to live with HIV. Proud to call them my friends. Science doesn’t have a publicist, so we did it ourselves! Thank you
@ianrgreen
for a lovely
@THTorguk
evening!
#CantPassItOn
#UequalsU
❤️
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I'm living with
#HIV
, I"m undetectable, and I CAN'T PASS IT ON! Congrats to
@THTorguk
on their new campaign
#CantPassItOn
#UequalsU
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HIV in the media: “There is more to our lives than breakthrough stories about the cure. Our lives & work are at stake w/proposed cuts in funding for the US domestic & global response. Another cure story should not be the priority, if or our resources are about to evaporate”
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🇬🇧 ❤️
#UequalsU
was heard around the world on the BBC today! Really impressive work by the wonderful PARTNER2 team to ensure their research gets out to the public!
@PreventionAC
@HIViBase
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This is very moving. It's so meaningful to tell someone they can't pass on HIV. Tears, & sometimes anger they hadn't learned it before. People often then get involved w/the campaign because they know how much it changed their lives & they want to share it w/others
#UequalsU
❤️
The power of
#UequalsU
My last patient in clinic after reading the
@SavingLivesUK
patient information leaflet . “.................Silence .........” tears “It’s just like being released from a concentration camp” ..“It’s just so relieving to read something like this”
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🇬🇧 ❤️ Hello
#aidsimpact2019
. We’re friends living with HIV & we want to tell you all about U=U!
#UequalsU
#cantpassiton
@sashaishere88
@KhadijahGriffi1
🇬🇧 ❤️
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👕 ❤️🇬🇧Proudly wearing your handmade
#UequalsU
shirt 👇🏾
@angelina_namiba
with
@DavinaConner
@KarlJSchmid
all over
#AIDS2022
#UequalsUSummit22
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What a wonderful day at
@FastTrackCities
with U=U champions
@JacquelyneAlesi
@LucyWanjikuN
@titirufu
@Yplus_Global
#UequalsU
🇺🇬 🇰🇪 🇿🇼 🇺🇸
#FastTrackCities
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People w/HIV can have condomless sex. Get over it. Educate in a meaningful way about HIV and STIs & get out of our bedrooms.
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For the first time in almost 3 years I’m starting to relax. Thank you Alison Rodger & researchers from PARTNER 1&2; HPTN 052; Opposites Attract; Swiss Statement & all studies back to 1998. Our 700
#UequalsU
partners from nearly 100 countries have been right all along: 🔎 ZERO.
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❤️ 🙏🏽
@billboard
“Today, Porter says his HIV is "completely undetectable," meaning that his viral load has been reduced to small enough amounts that it can no longer be detected by blood tests & it can no longer be transmitted through sex.”
#UequalsU
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🌐 THANK YOU! This is huge news and validation of
#UequalsU
from the greatest minds In the field and the world’s
#3
medical journal!
NEWS: The science is clear: With
#HIV
,
#undetectable
equals
#untransmittable
.
#NIAID
experts discuss the scientific evidence & principles underlying
#UEqualsU
in
@JAMA_current
.
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Prodded by gorgeous
@DrNaomiSutton
I did my hair & make up on the train to join
@Matthew_Hodson
& the
#getlippy
campaign for
@eveappeal
. I call my short independent film “oh hello stranger on a train”💋🏆
#UequalsU
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🇮🇪 I’m leaving Ireland today proudly wearing my
@ActUpDublin
shirt & inspired by their actions & commitment shouting
#UequalsU
since summer of ‘16 - helping to move the US & world. Thank you for recognizing U=U is
#1
urgent priority (even while fighting for access to
#PrEP
!)
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HIV stigma is a public health emergency.
#UequalsU
is an effective response. On
#WorldAIDSDay
let’s commit to clearly, confidently & consistently celebrating the life-changing U=U news in many meaningful ways until everyone knows it!
@PreventionAC
is here to support you 👍🏾 🌍
Stigma reduction is critical to the next phase of HIV epidemic response. Those facing HIV stigma are often the hardest to reach & retain for treatment.
#PEPFAR
remains committed to reaching & serving affected communities in the next phase of
#HIV
response.
#EndHIVStigma
@USAID
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🇮🇪 So happy to have the great activist & friend
@WillStLeger
from
@ActUpDublin
at my place in NY. Will has been acting up to get
#UequalsU
heard in Ireland since 2016 & his campaigns have had an impact around the world. He understands the important roles of U=U &
#PrEP
#Hero
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🇪🇸 Love seeing wonderful friends & colleagues and meeting new ones at
#FastTrackCities
in Seville! ❤️
@angelina_namiba
⭐️
Come by our lounge this week, grab a T-shirt & join us for the U=U
#WinWinAgenda
Symposium on Wednesday !
#UequalsU
See you soon!
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🇿🇦 Extraordinary friend &
#UequalsU
activist Doctor
@sindivanzyl
has been in hospital w/COVID for 6 wks in South Africa, now on a ventilator. Her family is burdened not only w/this painful time but w/high hospital bills. To support her:
#GiftSindiLife
❤️
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..
@HIVPlusMag
"If you want to end the epidemic, invest in the wellbeing of people w/HIV. Ensuring people w/HIV have the treatment, care, and services we need not only keeps us healthy, but it’s the most effective way to stop new transmissions.”
#UequalsU
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🏅MILESTONE After three years of working out of my studio apartment, I moved
@PreventionAC
#UequalsU
to an office two blocks away from me! No more waking up and going to sleep with that computer staring at me! I'm making my home a home. ❤️
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🌏 Improving access to effective HIV treatment, care & viral load testing will save lives AND stop new transmissions (U=U). Want to end the epidemic? Invest in the well-being of people w/HIV!
#UequalsU
#cantpassiton
#LeaveNoOneBehind
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🙋🏻♂️..and then within fifteen min after I arrived at
@EACSociety
I ran into these amazing U=U champions!
@bryndlewindle
@Matthew_Hodson
#EACS2021
@ViiVHC
@aidsmap
#UequalsU
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The field of HIV has understandly many hurt people who hurt people, who seek to tear down instead of build. It is harmful to people with HIV & impedes progress.
Focus on those who will build with you. 🙏🏼
#RiseAbove
#UequalsU
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🇬🇧 🤗 Huge thank you to the folks at
@GeorgeHouseTrst
for connecting us to the
#ItsASin
@hbomax
@HBOMaxImpact
team & for building off the energy around this massive hit to promote
#UequalsU
#HIVHasChanged
❤️💜
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🎥 🎉 The
#UequalsU
documentary is really happening!!!! Met with brilliant filmmakers to discuss story development & how our U=U battle ties into longstanding history of patriarchy & ongoing oppression of marginalized communities
#tellthetruth
#factsnotfear
#lovewithoutfear
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🎂 U=U is growing up! Let’s celebrate U=U’s 5th birthday on July 21st!
Join the U=U global community at 3:00pm ET on PAC's YouTube and Facebook to celebrate 5 years of living and loving without the fear of passing on HIV:
#UequalsUat5
#UequalsU
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✊🏽✊🏾✊🏼5 years ago we took the stage to demand that the field confirm & communicate the
#UequalsU
truth about our bodies — and call for access for all!
Join us this summer to build on the tremendous energy & momentum of the movement at
#UequalsU
Global Summit
@AIDS_Conference
👇🏾
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🏅Brilliant job!
#UequalsU
goes massively mainstream America on
@GMA
in a thoughtful, clear, and charming way thanks to the champion
@KarlJSchmid
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This means a lot. It’s been a sad week with the passing of a friend from COVID. Thanks dear Matthew for reminding me of the good we’re doing & how we need to keep going. Grateful for you & the global
#UequalsU
family.
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☑️YES! Modeling estimates show that ensuring ppl. w/HIV have the treatment & care to stay undetectable not only keeps us healthy but stops new transmissions (
#UequalsU
). If we want to end the HIV epidemic, we must invest more in the wellbeing of ppl. w/HIV
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🙏🏾💕Thank you
@HIVPlusMag
editors! I appreciate your commitment to U=U!
This summer marks 20 years since my HIV diagnosis. I’m grateful it led me to the incredible journey & community of the
#UequalsU
movement!
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🌎 Thank you
@UNAIDS
for consistently, clearly and accurately broadcasting the
#UequalsU
message! Let’s hope the big US agencies will follow your lead soon! We appreciate you! ❤️
#DYK
: undetectable = untransmittable.
When a person living w/HIV is taking effective antiretroviral therapy, the
#viralload
becomes so low that it is undetectable. A person with an undetectable viral load has no chance of passing on HIV.
#UequalsU
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So far, the US is leading a global health & human rights failure. It’s time to suspend patents, share knowhow, invest in capacity. No more talk, we’re losing people like my dear friend Dr.
@sindivanzyl
to
#COVID19
while we wait!
#UequalsU
#VaccineEquity
#TRIPSwaiver
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3:25pm Rhode Island: Today is
#adaywithhiv
. Like many days, I’m working on the
#UequalsU
campaign! My
#HIV
led me to this incredible global community that’s making it known ppl w/HIV on effective treatment can’t pass it on. I’m so proud of our work together! More to come! ❤️🗣
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❤️Love Without Fear ❤️ At last! To love, to have sex,
to conceive children without fear!
#UequalsU
#UUnity
#LeaveNoOneBehind
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I’m grateful to have friends who have truly changed lives of people w/HIV & the course of the HIV epidemic w/their research,
courage, compassion & conviction. Can’t say enough about how pivotal they’ve been to
#UequalsU
& more. U=U pioneers Dr. Alison Rodger,
@drmbrady
@ianrgreen
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🌍🇬🇧Powerful &. inspiring stories of recovery resilience & leadership “Our Stories Told By Us - Celebrating the African Contribution to the UK HIV Response”
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@our_storiesus
#OutStoriesToldByUs
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Thank you to our friends at the
@CDC_HIVAIDS
for their commitment to accurate info about the “risk” when HIV undetectable. Millions of people with HIV still dont know, suffering from internalized & external stigma. We will work together to get the message out!
#UequalsU
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When will the HIV/AIDS power structure (dominated by Global North) stop trying to control people living with HIV & start trusting people living w/HIV?
Listen to & invest in people living w/HIV! We are the solution to save lives & end HIV as a public health threat!
#UequalsU
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