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Patricia Volkow, MD, is an infectious disease specialist at the National Cancer Institute in Mexico City. In 1990, she formed the AIDS Cancer Clinic at the National Institute of Cancer, and started her research on the impact of plasma and blood trade in the AIDS epidemic in a hospital where 60% of AIDS patients were

The Fall HIV/Antiretroviral Update will take place on Friday December 3, 2010 from approximately 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel located across from St. Paul’s Hospital in Downtown Vancouver. This is an open educational event sponsored by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and accredited by the College of

“HIV in Jail Populations” Anne Spaulding, MD, MPH, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. She entered the field of correctional health in 1996 when she was appointed the medical program director for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, a combined jail and prison.

Eric Roth, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. He has conducted anthropological demographic research with pastoral populations in northern Kenya for the past twenty years. In this presentation, Dr. Roth will examine patterns of risk and worry about contracting HIV/AIDS, specifically in the Ariaal community of northern

Social Networks and Disease Spread: LAURENS BAKKER – School of Computing Science & MoCSSy Programme, SFU PHILIPPE GIABBANELLI – Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology & MoCSSy Programme, SFU Since the late 1990s Social Networks have become the subject of much research in fields as varied as Sociology, Economics, Epidemiology, Computing Science, and even (Socio)physics.

“Room for Improvement: Making Quality Practical” – Kathleen Clanon, MD, is an internal medicine physician with a specialty in HIV/AIDS. She is currently part of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Centre and a HIV quality consultant with the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute. In this lecture, Dr. Clanon will share her

“Beyond disorder, incompetence and ignorance: Re-thinking the youthful subject of alcohol and other drug policy”  David Moore, PhD, is an anthropologist who leads the Ethnographic Program at the National Drug Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. In Australia, as in other parts of the Western world, ‘binge drinking’ and the use of amphetamine-type stimulants among young

On Wednesday May 5, 2010 the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Forefront Lecture Series will present a talk by Dr. Angela Kaida called “Investigating the impact of expanding access to antiretroviral therapy on reproductive decision-making, behaviours, and outcomes of women in HIV hyper-endemic settings of sub-Saharan Africa.” Angela Kaida, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow