The 28th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research is the premier gathering in Canada for those working in all disciplines of HIV/AIDS research, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic. The conference, also known as CAHR 2019, will be held May 9th-12th, 2019.
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PRESENTERS |
TOPIC |
SESSION No. |
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Orals |
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| Angela McLaughlin | Epidemiological Correlates of HIV Phylogenetic Diversification Rate in British Columbia | EPH1.01 |  |
| Silvia Guillemi | High Levels Of Viral Suppression And Care Engagement Following Rapid Access To Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Upon HIV Diagnosis | CS1.05 | N/A |
| Hanwei Sudderuddin | Evolution of Nef-mediated CD4, HLA and SERINC5 Downregulation Activity over a Decade of Untreated HIV Infection: A Case Study | BS2.02 | N/A |
| Marianne Harris | Loneliness and Stigma Impact Cognitive Function and Mental Health among HIV+ Older Adults in the Positive Brain Health Now (PBHN) Study | CS2.05 |  |
| Katrina Koehn | Investigating Use of Home and Community Care Services Among Older Adults Living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada | CS2.07 | N/A |
| David Moore | Trajectories of Frequent Methamphetamine Use Among HIV Positive and Negative Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men (gbMSM) in Vancouver | EPH2.05 | N/A |
| Ji Hyun (Jinny) Choi | Snack Chat: a Low-barrier, Community Knowledge Translation Series that Bridges the Gap Between Research and Research Users in an Aids Support Organization | SS2.05 | N/A |
| Valerie Nicholson and Rebecca Gormley | Help-seeking After Experiences of Violence Among Women Living with HIV in Canada: What are We Missing? | SS2.08 | N/A |
| Andrea Bever | Prospective Changes in Clinical Outcomes Among People Living with HIV Who Have Previously Achieved Virologic Suppression | EPH3.07 | N/A |
| Megan Marziali | Relationship Between Social Isolation and Mortality Among People Living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada | EPH3.08 | N/A |
| Gbolahan Olarewaju | What’s Race Got To Do With It?: Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Indigenous gbMSM and gbMSM of Colour in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal | SS3.03 |  |
| Megan Marziali | Predictors of Social Isolation Among People Living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada | SS3.04 | N/A |
| Valerie Nicholson and Krista Shore | “I found my voice”: Acts of Resilience and Resistance to the Criminalization of HIV Non-disclosure Among Women Living with HIV in Canada | SS4.04 | N/A |
| Bradley Jones | Characterizing Latent HIV Sequences in CD4+ Subsets in Individuals on Long-term cART | BS4.05 | N/A |
Posters |
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| Jeffrey Joy | A Phylogenetic Approach to Prioritizing HIV Transmission Clusters | BSP9.07 |  |
| Beverly Allen | The impact of integrase strand inhibitors on creatine kinase levels in antiretroviral naive people living with HIV | CSP2.06 |  |
| Beverly Allen | Comparison of dolutegravir and elvitegravir based antiretroviral therapy for antiretroviral naive people living with HIV | CSP2.07 |  |
| Marianne Harris | Global Deficit Score (GDS) in Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) and Mild Neurocognitive Disorder (MND) | CSP6.01 |  |
| Mark Hull | Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Prefer Self-Collection of Samples for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s) at a Vancouver Sexual Health Clinic | EPHP1.09 |  |
| Junine Toy | One Year of Population-Based HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in British Columbia (BC): Program Uptake and Participant Characteristics | EPHP2.02 |  |
| Mark Hull | Prescribers of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in British Columbia (BC) in the First Year of the Provincial Program | EPHP2.05 |  |
| Tim Wesseling | Social Support is Associated with Lower Likelihood of HIV Treatment Interruptions in British Columbia, Canada | EPHP4.01 |  |
| Leo Rutherford | HIV Status Disclosure During Sex: A Longitudinal Event-Level Analysis of Gay, Bisexual and other Men who have Sex with Men (GBM) | EPHP4.04 |  |
| David Moore | Examining differential success in participant recruitment using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) in a Canadian multi-site study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) | EPHP5.03 |  |
| Mia Kibel | Mental Health Diagnoses in a Population-based Cohort of People Living with HIV | EPHP5.06 |  |
| Mark Hull | Hepatitis C knowledge and treatment willingness in individuals admitted to the Urban Health Unit, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver | EPHP6.08 |  |
| Jinny Choi | The Impact of Geographic Location on HIV Viral Suppression and Mortality among People Who Use Injection Drugs | EPHP7.01 |  |
| Katrina Koehn | Aging with HIV vs. Aged with HIV: Profiling adults diagnosed with HIV after age 50 in British Columbia | EPHP7.03 |  |
| Taylor McLinden | The Canadian Observational Cohort (CANOC): Canada’s largest multi-province study of people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy | EPHP7.04 |  |
| Nathan Lachowsky | Recreational Sports League Participation and Impacts Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men in Metro Vancouver | SSP13.04 |  |
| Graham Berlin | Chemsex Complications: Sexual health knowledge, access and behaviours for HIV-positive and HIV-negative sexual minority men who use crystal methamphetamine | SSP16.04 |  |
| Rebecca Gormley | Is peer leadership engagement associated with awareness of the HIV prevention benefits of ART? A cross-sectional analysis of women living with HIV in Canada in the UequalsU era | SSP9.01 |  |
| Marcus Greatheart | Cardiovascular Disease among Bear-identified Gay, Bisexual, and other Men who have Sex with Men (gbMSM) in Vancouver: Notice to Family Doctors | SSP14.08 |  |