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Financial Woes Face Black HIV Group

Gay Men of African Descent on hiatus as its aims to shift funding model A Brooklyn organization that focuses on HIV prevention and sexual health among African-American gay and bisexual men will go on hiatus for the summer while it reorganizes from its current grant-based funding scheme to a fee-for-service provider model under which it

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New Vancouver-area HIV cases fall by more than half

2019 numbers expected to drop to record-low levels The number of new HIV infections in the Vancouver Coastal Health region has fallen by 52 per cent since 2011, and it’s expected to keep falling. Last year, 86 people in the region were diagnosed with HIV, down from 178 seven years earlier, according to the health

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Number of new HIV infections in VCH drops 52% since 2011

Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has seen a 52 per cent decrease in new HIV cases since 2011, and is on track this year to having the lowest number of cases since HIV became reportable (in 2003). On this National HIV Testing Day, doctors are urging people to get tested to further decrease

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HIV tests now part of most Emergency Department blood work

June 27 is National HIV Testing Day – an opportunity to remind everyone it is easier than ever to know your HIV status. Since December 2018, when people come in to Interior Health emergency departments and require diagnostic blood work, an HIV test may be included. Provincial testing guidelines encourage primary care providers to know

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HIV tests now part of most Emergency Department blood work

June 27 is National HIV Testing Day-and it’s easier than ever to know your HIV status. Since December 2018, an HIV test may be included with regular diagnostic blood work at Interior Health emergency departments. Over the last five years, Interior Health has implemented STOP HIV/AIDS, a provincial program to expand access to earlier HIV

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They Thought This HIV Strategy Couldn’t Work. But It Did

In high-income countries like the U.S., the standard of care for people infected with HIV is to provide antiretroviral pills when the virus is found, even when there are no symptoms of AIDS. The strategy staves off the disease and has a second – big – benefit. It has been shown to prevent the spread

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Pride sidewalks are on the agenda at tonight’s Burnaby council meeting

Ahead of Burnaby’s second-ever Pride celebration, a city councillor is pushing for four more rainbow crosswalks at the city’s major intersections. Dan Johnston’s motion, which is scheduled to be deliberated in on Monday night’s Burnaby city council meeting, is requesting city staff to identify four high-profile intersections for the eventual painting of LGBTQ rainbow crosswalks

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Scientists have found a way to completely stop the spread of HIV

The end of the era of AIDS can be a matter of time after a large-scale study of 1,000 males whose HIV infection was completely suppressed with antiretroviral drugs, didn’t infect their partners. “The success of the therapy means that if all HIV-positive people received treatment, further spread of the infection would not happen,” writes

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U=U vs. TasP

Undetectable equals Untransmittable/U=U vs. Treatment as Prevention (TasP). One has captured the imagination of people living with HIV (PLWH) around the world while the other seems to have disappeared. U=U was created by community to empower PLWH to have an undetectable viral load so they can’t transmit HIV. TasP was created by scientists to explain

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Project Aims to Eradicate Hepatitis C in Perry County

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 16, 2019) – Jennifer Havens, Ph.D., professor of behavioral science in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, faculty member in the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research and member of the team awarded $87 million through the National Institutes of Health’s HEALing Communities study, has spent the past decade studying the

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Drugmaker Gilead Is Making HIV Prevention Meds More Accessible

Earlier this month, pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences announced that it will donate enough HIV prevention drug Truvada to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to benefit 200,000 people at risk for HIV. While news of the announcement was met positively, it also came ahead of some other negative headlines surrounding the drugmaker, coupled

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Dr. Kate Salters, BC-CfE Research Scientist, gives testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights regarding HIV non-disclosure criminalization

Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights Statement- Kate Salters, PhD, MPH Good morning everyone. My name is Kate Salters and I am a PhD-trained Infectious Disease Epidemiologist working as a Research Scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (the BC-CfE) and a faculty

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