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International HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop Political Segment What new targets for treatment? Which aim? Which resources? The International HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop brings together academic, policy, industry, and community representatives to review and discuss research and policy progress in the field of HIV treatment as prevention. This Davos-style roundtable session will bring together

Our third “What’s New?” lecture will be Thursday December 12th between 12-12:55pm, featuring a presentation by Dr. Launette Rieb, of the St. Paul’s Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program, entitled “Double trouble: Treating pain and addiction”. Dr. Rieb will speak for approximately 40 minutes, allowing for about 15 minutes of questions and discussion. This lecture will take

Presenter: Dr. Réjean Thomas Title: Updates on non-occupational PEP Dr. Thomas’ presentation is sponsored by Abbott Virology. About Dr. Thomas: Dr. Réjean Thomas is the Co-founder and President of the Clinique médicale l’Actuel, a clinic which specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and hepatitis. Dr. Thomas is also a

On Wednesday, April 17th, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Forefront Lecture Series will be presenting a lecture by Dr. Marianne Jauncey titled “Reflections on Sydney’s Supervised Injecting Centre – History, Politics, and Where to Go From Here”. Dr. Marianne Jauncey was appointed to the position of Medical Director at the Sydney Medically Supervised

Join us on Wednesday, March 20 for a presentation by Dr. Evan Wood on addiction and public health. Dr. Wood is Co-Director of the Urban Health Research Initiative at the BC-CfE and Canada Research Chair for Inner City Medicine. Addiction is one of the most difficult problems facing our society today. Addiction harms not only

Join us on Thursday, March 7, 2013, for a presentation by Dr. Kate Shannon, titled “Evidence-Based HIV/STI Prevention, Public Policy and Sex Work”. The presentation will be taking place in the New Lecture Theatre in the Providence Building at St. Paul’s Hospital (Level 1), from 12-1 p.m.  Dr. Shannon is Director of the Gender &

Please join us on Thursday, February 14, 2013 for an AIDS Care Round by Dr. Sue Burgess, titled ‘A historical perspective of HIV in the DTES – and ongoing challenges’. The AIDS Care Rounds are directed at health care professionals and treating and working with HIV-positive individuals. The BC-CfE also has videos from past AIDS

On Wednesday, February 13, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Forefront Lecture Series will be presenting a lecture by Dr. Mark Wainberg titled “Novel Insights into HIV Resistance to Integrase Inhibitors”. Dr. Wainberg is Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology at McGill University and director of its AIDS Centre. Internationally recognized for his

On Wednesday, February 6th, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Forefront Lecture Series will be presenting their first lecture of 2013 with a lecture by Dr. Hélène Côté titled “Does HIV accelerate cellular aging? Insight from leukocyte telomere length, a marker of aging”. Dr. Côté is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology