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Darien Taylor has been living with HIV for 35 years. She was one of the first women in Canada to be "out" about her HIV status. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was a force behind a number of HIV and women-focused initiatives. This work included co-editing an international anthology of works by women living with HIV and creating Voices of Positive Women, a provincial health organization led by and for women living with HIV. During this time, she co-chaired the HIV treatment activism group, AIDS ACTION NOW! Over the years Darien has been continuously involved in HIV work. She was the Director of Program Delivery at CATIE, Canada's source for HIV and HCV information, and was more recently involved in a small, informal group of individuals who worked behind the scenes to ensure public recognition of U=U, the research demonstrating that people with an undetectable HIV viral load cannot transmit HIV sexually. She is currently working on a short semi-autobiographical film through the SSHRC-funded Viral Interventions research project at York University.