Epidemiology and Population Health

Does Age Matter? Sexual Event-Level Analysis of Age-Disparate Sexual Partners among GBM in Vancouver, Canada

What is the importance of this study? Â¥ In Vancouver, one in five gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) live with HIV, with increasing prevalence by increasing age. Â¥ There is a gap in knowledge and understanding of the sexual health implications of intergenerational relationships, which are relationships with a […]

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Canada’s Engage study to examine sexual health of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal’s queer men

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

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Mental illness rates high among hard-to-reach people with HIV/AIDS in B.C.: Study

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

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

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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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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