CHIWOS

Day-to-day experiences of racism influence women’s access to HIV care, study

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Women living with HIV who experience higher levels of racism are less likely to be engaged in HIV care, according to research from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), BC Women’s Hospital and Simon Fraser University (SFU) published today in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). This finding is based on analysis of a cohort of over 1,400 women living with HIV in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec enrolled in CHIWOS, Canada’s largest ongoing community-based study.

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Canadian researchers call for improved integration of family planning care for HIV-positive women

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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

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Improved treatment allowing more HIV-positive women to get pregnant: study

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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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Improving the sexual and reproductive health of people living with HIV

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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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Incarceration Associated with Poorer Treatment Outcomes for Women Living with HIV in Canada

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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.

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New study finds previously incarcerated women with HIV less likely to adhere to HIV treatment

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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

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Infographics: Women and HIV in BC

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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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POZ Women’s Empowerment Through Community-Based Research

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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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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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