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‘Negligible’ HIV risk from people in treatment, new campaign proclaims
Vancouver’s Health Initiative for Men has endorsed an international campaign to communicate the latest HIV research. The results may surprise you. “Hey guys!” proclaimed a recent Facebook post from the Health Initiative for Men (HIM). “Well, we’re making it official: U=U! … UNDETECTABLE=UNINFECTIOUS!” The big news unveiled by the Vancouver gay men’s health organization may
A new model of health care and its potential to change treatment of HIV and hep C around the world.
Dr. Mark Hull is a world leader in the fight against HIV. As a researcher at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada’s largest AIDS research, treatment and educational facility, his work focuses on infectious disease, including hep C and HIV in Aboriginal communities. A recognized expert in HIV medicine, he is working on
Why Nobody’s Funding the HIV-Prevention Strategy Ten Times More Effective than PrEP
TasP – or Treatment as Prevention-aims to promote awareness that it’s incredibly difficult to get HIV from someone who’s undetectable. But that idea is proving a hard pill to swallow “This is a world that is run mostly by HIV-negative people, and they’re focused on protecting their own interests,” Bruce Richman tells me. He’s the
Hepatitis C and President Trump
For 20 years, I’ve been advocating for people living with hepatitis C. I was diagnosed with hep C (formerly known as non-A, non-B hepatitis) in the early days of George H.W. Bush’s presidency. Clinton was president during my first treatment; George W. Bush resided during my second treatment. Obama held the office when I was
Injecting Drugs, Under a Watchful Eye
It has been nearly 30 years since the first needle exchange program opened in the United States, in Tacoma, Wash., in 1988. It was a health measure to prevent injecting drug users from sharing needles, and therefore spreading H.I.V. and hepatitis. The idea was controversial, to say the least. Many people felt – and still
How U = U came to Canada: the inside story
Bob Leahy has been with the Undetectable = Untransmittable campaign in Canada from the beginning. Here he tells the remarkable story of how a movement led by people living with HIV changed the HIV message forever. It was the domino effect. Once CATIE signed on to U = U, others quickly scrambled to do the
High rates of injury found among some HIV-positive people in B.C.
CATIE reports on a study that undertook an assessment of rates and predictors of injury in HIV-positive and HIV-negative adults in British Columbia In Canada and other high-income countries, the widespread use of potent combination HIV therapy (ART) has significantly reduced AIDS-related deaths and illness-at least among people who are aware of their infection, in
Portal to HIV Education Resources gateway to latest research and practices
The website for the Clinical Education and Training Program at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) was created in 2014 to provide educational information regarding HIV to clinicians and health care professionals. Since its launch, it has received accolades and served to provide both online and in-person training to hundreds of healthcare providers,
Does the loss of 755 B.C. lives to drug overdoses justify a public inquiry?
In the summer of 2010, Maclean’s magazine published an astonishing story about the RCMP’s approach to supervised-injection sites. It outlined how the previous autumn, the Mounties and the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS were in discussions to hold a joint news conference. There, they would each “declare their agreement that research shows the ‘benefits’
OAS Secretary General award ed 10 influential Hispanics Canadians
OAS Secretary General awarded 10 influential Hispanics Canadians Winners from nine countries and five provinces, 300 attendees Past winners to meet PM Trudeau next year Toronto, December 16, 2016 – His Excellency Luis Almagro Lemes, Secretary General of the Organization States, presented last night the awards at TD Bank’s “10 most influential Hispanic Canadians” 2016.
How Weed Is Helping Opioid Users Beat Addiction
A growing body of experts and patients say cannabis should be prescribed before painkillers. Derek Pedro has been in pain for his entire life. Pedro, 44, suffers from migraines and a form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which affects the collagen in his body, making his joints incredibly loose. Together, the two conditions have caused him pain
High Rates of Injury Found Among Some HIV-Positive People in British Columbia
In Canada and other high-income countries, the widespread use of potent combination HIV therapy (ART) has significantly reduced AIDS-related deaths and illness — at least among people who are aware of their infection, in care and taking ART every day exactly as prescribed and directed. Due to the tremendous life-saving effects of ART, researchers increasingly
La lucha contra el Sida en Canadá y la adopción del objetivo global del 90-90-90
El tratamiento de forma inmediata hace que el individuo que está infectado, se vuelva virtualmente no infeccioso, en la medida que tome el tratamiento de forma óptima. O sea que no transmite el VIH ni a su pareja, ni a su cÃÂrculo de usuarios de drogas, ni a su hijo, en el caso de la
Editorial: Safe injection site worth exploring
Saskatchewan needs to act on the federal government’s easing of restrictions for supervised safe injection sites. The province does not yet have a safe injection site, although the Saskatoon Tribal Council stated last year that it wanted to explore the idea. The province continues to be cold to the idea. Health Minister Jim Reiter reiterated
Dr. Julio Montaner, Director of the BC-CfE, Responds to the Honourable Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s World AIDS Day Statement
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) supports and congratulates the Honourable Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould’s statement regarding the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure. Her promise to re-examine the legislation is a welcome sign of an impending shift towards evidence-based laws to protect the human rights of those living with HIV, while reducing stigma.
How the internet and technology can help with gay male sexual health issues
Thanks to the internet and social technology, it’s now far easier for gay men or men who have sex with men (MSM) to access information and content about LGBT issues in the privacy of their own home or from remote locations outside of city centres than having to go to bookstores, libraries, or public places,