Artist Joe Average said it was an ‘honour’ to pack meals as a volunteer for A Loving Spoonful after benefiting from the charity’s services for three years when his health was poor. (Lien Yeung/CBC)
HIV/AIDS charities in B.C. are reiterating their continued need for support after a patient who was declared “functionally cured” recently made global headlines.
In early March, a man who had HIV known as “the London patient” was found to have no trace of the virus nearly three years after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a rare, HIV-resistant gene mutation. Read More