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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

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

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

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.

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