This June marks the 50th anniversary of the first Pride parade, which arose in protest against police brutality and for the rights of LGBTQ people. Health equity has always been an indispensable part of that struggle. … The pandemics are ongoing, while access and treatment reflect health disparities Both pandemics are still ongoing. “A lot
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced the release of a nationwide contact tracing app. He remarked that it would be “something you can just download and forget about.” In the wake of demonstrations in response to the killing of George Floyd, the Minneapolis Public Safety Commissioner stated that the police had begun tracking down protesters
To mark the 25th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care¨ (AJMC¨), we spoke with Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Fauci has been at NIAID for 36 years, and he gave a keynote address at the first International AIDS Conference in San Francisco in 1990.
We are profoundly aware that systemic racism – and racism of any kind – stigma and discrimination severely compromise the effectiveness of our public health interventions and tear at the fabric of our society. As such, we remain fully committed to confront and rectify these whenever and wherever present. Our Centre was established in 1992
It may sound odd to some, given the months of “Stay at home” messaging, but the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has released guidelines on how to have a pleasurable sex life while also minimizing your chance of exposure to the new coronavirus. The guidelines, released on June 8, acknowledge
Two studies from Flinders University have identified several underlying problems faced by HIV programs in African countries, including a lack of nutritional programs for poor patients and inefficient systems that discourage people from using them. Closing these gaps in care could improve access for those worse affected by HIV in developing countries. Programs managing HIV
Comments come as B.C.’s city with highest number of Chinese reports lowest infection rates on Lower Mainland The Chinese community’s early efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 in B.C. appear to have paid off, despite some of its members being stigmatized because of the virus, say infectious disease doctors. Data recently released by the
The COVID-19-related death toll in the United States recently surpassed 100,000. Estimates for how many more people will die because of COVID-19 vary wildly. Some are describing this situation as unprecedented. It is not. And I know because I am a long-term survivor of HIV. I have been living with HIV for nearly four decades
New research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington state – the country’s first – was triggered by the very first confirmed case of the infection in the country. Instead, it suggests the person who ignited the first chain of sustained transmission in the United States probably returned to
The groundbreaking American writer and tireless activist for gay rights and a national effort to tackle the HIV/Aids crisis, Larry Kramer, has died in New York. Kramer, 84, died on Wednesday morning in Manhattan, the New York Times reported, citing his husband, David Webster, who said Kramer died of pneumonia. Kramer was a founder of
Reflecting on a career spanning more than 40 years in nursing and midwifery, Burnet Institute Research Nurse, Kate Allardice smiles. “I am forever thankful that’s what I chose to do with my life,” she says. It’s a hugely varied professional journey that spans the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre in the days when female nurses (but
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has produced the fear and disorder inevitably provoked by emerging pathogens. As such, it should also inspire consideration of our experience with HIV over the past 40 years. As with HIV, the road to reducing infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19), and
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. New coronavirus antibody test highly accurate A new antibody test is highly accurate at determining whether people have been infected with
Overstretched health systems, lockdowns, loss of livelihoods and fewer employment opportunities could increase unprotected sex, sexual violence and exploitation, transactional sex and sex work, leading to an increase in new HIV infections GENEVA, 6 May 2020-Despite the global progress made in HIV prevention, with new HIV infections falling by 40% since the peak in 1997,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is not drawing “firm conclusions” on allegations that the novel coronavirus – which has now caused devastation worldwide – came from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan. … In a previous interview with Global News, Jeffrey Joy, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s faculty
Armies of researchers around the world are working overtime to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. While it will take some time until one is available to stop the spread of the deadly and highly contagious virus, it seems as though Canadians are divided by the idea of how it could be administered. … Jeffrey Joy,
This year, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. In his virtual presentation, Denton Callander, PhD, of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, explained how community-level HIV viremia was associated with decreasing HIV incidence in a real-world example of
They can be heard at 7 p.m. every evening: ringing bells, clanging pots, honking horns, and blaring sirens sounding out in support of health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the workers on the frontlines are researchers at Providence Health Care who are trying to understand the virus and how to control and cure it.
More than a dozen “rapid response” research projects have been launched by Genome B.C. aimed at improving COVID-19 virus and antibody detection, and accelerating the development of treatments and vaccines. Zabrina Brumme and Christopher Lowe are heading a collaboration aimed at creating a test that will not only reveal whether or not the virus is
Project Leaders: Chanson Brumme Institutions: University of British Columbia (UBC) Budget: $76500 Competition: Rapid Response Funding for COVID-19 Research Projects Genome Centre(s): Genome British Columbia Fiscal Year: 2020 Status: Active This project will create a simple open-source software package that will help analyze viral genomic data from the COVID-19 pandemic. This tool will be created
During the Canada Post strike announced September 25, 2025, the following measures will be undertaken to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.
During the Canada Post strike, we recommend that documents be faxed or couriered to our sites, versus utilization of regular mail service
The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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