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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Vancouver, BC [July 17, 2015] A new British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) study finds 44 per cent of participants within a research cohort of people who use injection drugs living with HIV in Vancouver would be legally obligated to disclose their HIV status to their sexual partners. Within the study, 65 per cent of male participants compared with only 45 percent of female participants satisfied the Supreme Court of Canada’s legal test for HIV non-disclosure, based on the October 2012 ruling in R v. Mabior.
FHS congratulates Doctoral student Kate Salters, who received awards from both the Soroptomist Foundation of Canada and CIHR to support her research that will improve the quality of women’s lives. Salters will receive $7,500 from the Soroptimist Foundation of Canada for her PhD research examining the social, physical, and environmental barriers to accessing sexual and
Vatican, Panama and formalized UNAIDS agreement add further momentum to saving lives, preventing infections and saving money Several recent international endorsements and agreements underline the growing universal acceptance of the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention Strategy. Support from the Vatican, formalization of an agreement with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and a Memorandum
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One of our MUHC researchers leads the Quebec part of a pan Canadian study to help women living with HIV Historically, in Canada, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been predominantly considered a man’s disease as it has mostly affected men who have had sex with men. As a result, healthcare services for people living
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The face of HIV has changed dramatically from the early days of the epidemic. Women now comprise more than half of all people living with HIV around the world. In Canada, an estimated 16,600 women are living with HIV/AIDS out of an estimated 71,300 HIV-positive Canadians. Women also represent an increasing proportion of annual positive
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VALERIE NICHOLSON REMEMBERS the room going silent the day she received her diagnosis. After the doctor told her she had HIV, she was sent to another room to receive her medication, a place that she recalls as “the most scary thing in my life”. And after the initial revelation, she didn’t absorb anything that followed.
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National study focuses on women living with HIV Angela Kaida, an SFU professor of health sciences, is leading SFU in Canada’s cutting-edge research on the prevalence of HIV in women. Without a doubt, the biological differences among men and women are vast, and include an increased susceptibility of women to HIV. This vulnerability is amplified
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A new Canadian study launched today will investigate gaps in women’s access to healthcare and social support services in order to better deliver care and improved health outcomes for women living with HIV in Canada.
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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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