Epidemiology and Population Health

‘There is no space for these women to go’: B.C. centre’s closure leaves gap for HIV-positive women

As a woman with HIV, Valerie Nicholson says she fears for others suffering with the affliction who do not have the supports she was once lucky to have. Nicholson, who lives in British Columbia, used to be a member of the Positive Women’s Network – one of the only HIV/AIDS community organizations solely dedicated to

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Shifting social norms around what “safer” sex is: perspectives of HIV-negative men in Canada

HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM) living in Vancouver, Canada are redefining ways to negotiate sexual safety and risk, according to qualitative research recently published by Dr Benjamin Klassen and colleagues in BMC Public Health. Condoms are no longer seen as the only means of preventing HIV infection. Biomedical prevention strategies – including

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