New CDC Research Finds African Americans Are Less Likely to Receive Ongoing HIV Care Than white and Latino Americans African Americans living with HIV are less likely than white or Latino Americans to receive consistent, ongoing medical care, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published today in Morbidity and
It’s strange for me to be celebrating the return of science to Canada. If those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, what about those who fail science? My last high school science class was Chemistry 11, back in the ancient pre-internet era when kids still thought chemistry sets were cool. The only reason
A recent issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) (128: vol. 1426) gives pride of place to a series of papers that reconsider the way forward for HIV prevention in New Zealand (NZ) against the background of the past thirty years. Recent contributions to STI journal by these authors analyse the behavioural surveillance data
The stigma related to HIV in the LGBT community on full display at CC16 plenary session CHICAGO — The grand ballroom in the Chicago Hilton has played host to many moments in American history — as the elevator trivia screens reminded everyone. But changing the commitment to the fight against HIV by the LGBTQ community
Former executive director of UNICEF James Grant, estimated that getting medical and health knowledge to those who needed it, and applying it, could have prevented 34 million deaths each year in the late 1980s. Fast forward to the new millennium, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair is credited with saying, “In this new environment the
Even a modestly effective HIV vaccine would likely be cost-effective and could make a major contribution to a sustainable response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in combination with the scale-up of other interventions including prompt initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), according to a report in the January 5 edition of
It is “insane” that Canada continues to see a rise in transmissions of Hepatitis C, despite the fact that there is a cure, say health researchers. But thanks to political inaction, and the prohibitive cost of the live-saving drugs, Canadians continue to contract the life-threatening virus. By official estimates, the population carrying Hepatitis C in
We take a look at treatment and prevention breakthroughs, an increased quality of life and the stigma that continues to make up the HIV landscape The state of HIV in America is changing rapidly. We are finally at a point when, even with no solid cure in sight, the tide of the epidemic could finally
“I don’t remember much of that day when I got my test back, but what I do remember is being in a tiny white room with a complete stranger, 18 years old and frightened,” recounted Kecia Larkin. On September 11th, 1989, Larkin, a Canadian woman from the Kwa’kwa’wakw and Peigan First Nations in British Columbia,
Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has given a heartfelt stamp of approval to the work of Vancouver’s Insite supervised-injection site, a dramatic shift in tone from the previous Conservative government on harm reduction strategies that could have consequences across the country. The new Liberal Health Minister, a family doctor who founded a charity that has
In yet another sign of that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have a very different approach to drugs than the previous government, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott yesterday toured Insite, the long-standing supervised injection site on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and called the experience “incredibly moving.” That might not seem remarkable; numerous peer-reviewed studies have shown that Insite
Dr. Patricia Daly buoyed by Trudeau government’s support for Dr. Peter Centre site Vancouver Coastal Health is pushing ahead with a plan to provide more supervised drug injection sites in the city and open them in existing community health centres. Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for the health authority, said the plan is
“Right now, we’re on track to end the scourge of HIV/AIDS. That’s within our grasp.”–President Barack Obama The power of those words really struck me when I heard President Obama say them in his final State of the Union address last week. I’ve wanted to believe that this was possible for the 30 years I’ve
Dr Peter Aids Foundation in Vancouver was granted two-year exemption from federal drug laws from Liberals, a significant shift in Canada’s healthcare policy An acclaimed Canadian HIV/Aids treatment centre has been given the green light to operate a supervised drug injection site by Canada’s federal government, becoming the second such approved site in North America.
In December 2014, an Indiana physician performed a routine HIV test on a pregnant woman that showed she had the virus. The expecting mother was one of the first in a cluster of new HIV cases in southern Indiana that would quickly grow in a tight-knit community of drug users who shared needles. At its
VANCOUVER – World-renowned HIV experts from British Columbia are stepping in to help control a massive outbreak of the disease in rural Indiana. The B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is partnering with Indiana University’s school of medicine in an effort to stymie an epidemic in Scott County where 184 people have tested positive for
The Indiana University School of Medicine received a grant Monday to study HIV patients’ access to testing and treatment in Austin, Indiana, where an outbreak of HIV cases occurred this year. The two-year, $200,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse will be supplemented by funding from the IU School of Medicine. Partnering with
VANCOUVER – World-renowned HIV experts from British Columbia are stepping in to help control a massive outbreak of the disease in rural Indiana. The B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is partnering with Indiana University’s school of medicine in an effort to stymie an epidemic in Scott County where 184 people have tested positive for
An increasing number of Canadian doctors are comfortable prescribing medical marijuana, or making referrals to doctors who will prescribe it. But even once patients get the green light from a physician, that doesn’t mean they can always access the relief they need. In Canadian hospitals, medical marijuana patients regularly face a lack of understanding about
