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Power combo: Harm reduction plus effective treatment help prevent spread of Hepatitis C

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Fifty-three year old Vancouver resident Sage Rinaldo lived with hepatitis C for many years before working up the courage to seek treatment. Rinaldo credits a community health nurse in the Downtown Eastside who gained her trust and helped her successfully treat her hepatitis C with a new anti-viral treatment. Now, Rinaldo is giving back by taking part in a long-term follow up study focussed on reinfection prevention. The Per-SVR study is aiming to better understand if, how and when hepatitis C reinfection may occur.

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New research finds gay and bisexual men across three generations have similar sexual behaviour

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The lifetime experiences of gay and bisexual men differ across generations. Some studies have proposed that these varied histories can impact attitudes towards sex and alter sexual behaviours. The BC-CfE’s Momentum Health Study-based on a cohort of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) in the Greater Vancouver area-set out to investigate this concept.

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CANOC fact sheet: Learn about the largest nationwide study of people living with HIV on treatment

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This week, we are sharing a fact sheet on the Canadian Observational Cohort (CANOC): Canada’s largest multi-province study of people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy. CANOC is an integrated network of all registered treatment information from eleven cohort databases across British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland. This collaboration of national researchers and select databases establishes policy-relevant studies in HIV therapeutics, population and public health.

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Vanier Scholar and BC-CfE Student Research Assistant hopes research will contribute to future HIV cure

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Much is known about how HIV evolves and adapts to the human immune system during untreated infection, but in order to one day find a vaccine or cure, more knowledge is needed about the landscape of viruses lying dormant in the bodies of infected people, even when strictly adhering to antiretroviral therapy.

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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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