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 […]
Roberts Creek resident and Simon Fraser University researcher Robert Hogg officially joined the Order of Canada Feb. 1 in an investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall. Hogg was among 125 new appointments to the order announced by Gov. Gen. Julie Payette in December of 2017, but Hogg said he was told that it’s not unusual to
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Being named Canada’s top comprehensive university for the 10th time in 11 years capped an electrifying 2018 at SFU. This past year saw the arrival of the university’s two Canada 150 chairs as well as the high-profile joint-conferral (with UBC) of an honorary doctorate of laws degree on His Highness the Aga Khan. Here’s a
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More than 60,000 Canadians and 37 million people worldwide are living with HIV. In the early days of HIV and AIDS, there was enormous fear and discrimination – to the extent that in British Columbia politicians debated quarantining individuals with HIV. Since then, the arc of scientific progress on HIV has been swift. But HIV-related
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Does single room accommodation housing shape women’s drug- and health-related outcomes, including their risk of overdose? Alexandra Collins, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences, recently won a 2018 Vanier Scholarship to address this question. She is among 167 graduate students Canada-wide to receive a Vanier Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health
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B.C. researchers compared health records of HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients. HIV-positive patients were twice as likely to be diagnosed with a mood disorder. Age, sexuality and injection drug use were associated with mental health diagnoses. At least several studies have found that mental health conditions are more common among HIV-positive people than HIV-negative people. Some
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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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