Canadian study finds 60% of pregnancies among HIV-positive women were unintended. Among HIV-positive women, unintentional pregnancies were more common if they were younger, single or born in Canada. Researchers highlight the need to integrate family planning within comprehensive HIV care. A team of Canadian researchers has analysed a comprehensive survey of HIV-positive women living in […]
VANCOUVER — Lisa Partridge was 14 when she learned she was HIV-positive. The teenager living in Comox, B.C., underwent a tainted blood transfusion when she was an infant in Romania. When she fell terribly ill at age one, her distraught parents searched for a cause until a doctor finally recommended HIV testing. She tested positive.
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De nouveaux traitements permettent à de plus en plus de Canadiennes atteintes du VIH de tomber enceintes, selon une tude. Prs de 25% des femmes ont signal une grossesse aprs avoir reçu un diagnostic du virus de l’immunodficience humaine (VIH), selon l’tude sur la sant sexuelle et reproductive des femmes vivant avec le VIH, qui
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Study finds nearly 25% of women reported pregnancy after HIV diagnosis, 61% of the pregnancies were unplanned
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SFU health sciences professor Angela Kaida wants to help shape health policies and programs to support HIV-affected women to safely achieve their reproductive desires and enjoy healthy and satisfying sex lives. And now that her Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives on HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health has been renewed, she has the funding
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The British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BCCfE) has released new research that finds previously incarcerated women with HIV are three times more likely to have poor adherence to combination anti-retroviral therapy than HIV positive women who have not been incarcerated. Simon Fraser University Health Sciences professor and principal investigator of the study at
While the provision of HIV treatment and care to incarcerated populations is mandated by law, women face challenges in maintaining their HIV treatment in the community post-release. Recent Canadian research has found women living with HIV who have been incarcerated in the past year are three times more likely to have poor adherence to ART, compared with women who have never been incarcerated.
The Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS, www.chiwos.ca) is a community-based research study seeking to measure the use and impact of women-centred care for women living with HIV. The study meaningfully engages HIV-positive women throughout the research process and aims to create new knowledge that can be used to advance their
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“Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality” is a noble and necessary undertaking and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to effectively eradicate AIDS can be a realistic possibility since we understand the correlation between gender inequality and POZ women’s (women living with HIV) capacity to maintain their health and well-being.
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A Q&A with SFU assistant professor Angela Kaida Women living with HIV have high rates of sexual inactivity and dissatisfaction, and a lower quality of life. This is according to Angela Kaida, the Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Reproductive Health, and one of the women who is part of a research group studying stigma
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