Pages tagged with "media"
What do youth have to say about the London Patient?
At YouthCO, we’ve been getting a lot of excitement and questions about the media coverage of the "London patient," a man who who has recently been cured of HIV as a result of treatment for lymphoma (a type of cancer). This person was given a bone marrow transplant from a donor who has an HIV resistant gene mutation, which meant HIV could no longer survive in his body. While articles...
YouthCO stands against HIV non-disclosure
Thank you, PositiveLite.com, for publishing this article online here. When getting sexy with our partner(s), we all have an opportunity to talk about sexual health. Yet in practice, many of us are reluctant to start a conversation, bring up condoms, or ask about HIV and STIs. For those of us who are HIV-positive, not having one of these conversations means we may face charges of aggravated sexual assault. In fact,...
Staying positive: The realities of dating with HIV
Metro News wrote an article about dating while living with HIV, focused on the experiences of young people. They approached YouthCO to learn more about this topic.
Romance & Tradition: Yúusnewas featured on CBC's New Fire program
New Fire, a CBC program, interviewed Jessica St. Jean about her work with YouthCO's Yúusnewas program as part of an episode on romance and tradition.