“In December, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the country’s anti-prostitution laws in a unanimous decision.
The court’s decision struck down three key provisions in the Criminal Code that make communicating for the purposes of prostitution, bawdy houses, and living off the avails of prostitute all illegal. The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS legally intervened in the case.
The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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