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Integrated HIV Care and Service Engagement among People Living with HIV who Use Drugs in a Setting with a Community-Wide Treatment as Prevention Initiative

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It is well known that social and structural inequities, such as poverty and homelessness, can create barriers to routine HIV care among people living with HIV (PLHIV) who use drugs. Such barriers can contribute to poor HIV-related health outcomes among PLHIV who use drugs and undermine HIV treatment and prevention strategies. In British Columbia, treatment […]

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“We’re giving you something so we get something in return”

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While there are concerns of increasing vulnerability and undue risk taking with compensation, there is a need to explore the impact of different types of compensation on vulnerable populations’ voluntary consent and how it shapes research-related interactions. By exploring the impact of compensation on study participants, the researchers hope to inform the ethical framework around

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Research collaboration to evaluate uptake of marginalized individuals into treatment

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The BC-CfE is part of a team of researchers investigating unique health programs in British Columbia and how they effect the well-being of marginalized people living with HIV and AIDS. Researchers from the BC-CfE and Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation are working with co-investigators from across the country to investigate the impact of Vancouver’s Dr. Peter

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Vancouver clinic wants federal approval to provide drug-injection services

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The Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver has applied for an exemption to federal drug laws that would allow the facility to continue offering supervised injection services to its clients. Nurses at the centre, which provides care to people living with HIV, including many who are poor and homeless, have been quietly providing supervised injection services

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