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Canadian HIV criminalisation laws increase violence against women living with HIV

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A majority of women living with HIV in Canada report a history of verbal, physical, and/or sexual violence from partners, according to a study published in Women’s Health. And one fifth of the women in the study, especially Indigenous women and Black women, reported that Canada’s HIV non-disclosure laws had led to increased violence. Canada […]

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Collaborative study examines COVID-19 vaccine immune responses in people living with HIV

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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) researchers, collaborating with counterparts at Simon Fraser University, the University of BC, Providence Health Care and the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) recently published a study looking at COVID-19 vaccine immune responses in people living with HIV (PLWH). Due to the explosive growth of COVID-19 variants, and

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BC-CfE contributes to vital dialogue at a virtual 23rd International AIDS Conference

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The fitting theme of AIDS 2020, the first fully-virtual International AIDS Conference, was Resilience. The theme reminded the global HIV community of its ability to come together despite a global pandemic to share our commitment to HIV prevention, treatment and cure research. More than 180 countries participated in this year’s conference, held during the second

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Recommendations on changes to HIV criminalization don’t go far enough

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Earlier this summer, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights released a report on Canada’s approach to criminalizing those who don’t disclose that they’re living with HIV to sexual partners. If the Standing Committee’s recommendations are adopted, they could diminish the harms experienced by women living with HIV under Canada’s current

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‘There is no space for these women to go’: B.C. centre’s closure leaves gap for HIV-positive women

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As a woman with HIV, Valerie Nicholson says she fears for others suffering with the affliction who do not have the supports she was once lucky to have. Nicholson, who lives in British Columbia, used to be a member of the Positive Women’s Network – one of the only HIV/AIDS community organizations solely dedicated to

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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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