What is the importance of this study? ¥ Initial participants (‘seeds’) are critical to respondent-driven sampling (RDS) as they lead to more participants joining the study. Yet, there is little information available on how seeds that were recruited through online strategies may effect RDS implementation. ¥ We compared online-recruited seeds with offline-recruited seeds, as well […]
So you’ve just had a great sexual experience with a guy and as you’re getting dressed, he hands you a voucher. It turns out it’s not a store voucher for a product or service but…an invitation to participate in a sexual-health study? While this may seem unusual at first, it’s something that may happen to
New research from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) counters the notion that gay and bisexual men who seek sex online are less likely to engage broadly with the gay community.
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Thanks to the internet and social technology, it’s now far easier for gay men or men who have sex with men (MSM) to access information and content about LGBT issues in the privacy of their own home or from remote locations outside of city centres than having to go to bookstores, libraries, or public places,
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If you see red ribbons around campus next week, don’t mistake them for early Christmas decorations. Chances are they were put up to raise awareness for World AIDS Day which has been held on December 1 since 1988. AIDS is a devastating condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus – HIV. What makes HIV particularly
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More than half of people in the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS’s drug treatment program have suffered from mental illness Addressing the underlying mental health issues of harder-to-reach people with HIV/AIDS is important for treatment, a British Columbia researcher says. The B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) studied 916 participants in its drug
Mental illness rates high among hard-to-reach people with HIV/AIDS in B.C.: Study Read More »
An annual charity walk Sunday in support of people living with HIV in B.C. has changed its theme for 2016 to focus on boosting its benefactors’ health and happiness. In its 31st year, the event has changed its name to the Scotiabank AIDS WALK to tHrIVe. Its goal has shifted beyond helping people to survive
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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
