New research from the Momentum Health Study, a program supported by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, finds rates of smoking are three times higher among gay and bisexual men compared to the general population in a province that has the lowest rates of smoking in the country.
How do patterns of online and offline connectedness relate to beliefs and behaviours around HIV prevention among gay and bi men in Metro Vancouver?
VANCOUVER — Lisa Partridge was 14 when she learned she was HIV-positive. The teenager living in Comox, B.C., underwent a tainted blood transfusion when she was an infant in Romania. When she fell terribly ill at age one, her distraught parents searched for a cause until a doctor finally recommended HIV testing. She tested positive.
Improved treatment allowing more HIV-positive women to get pregnant: study Read More »
KAMLOOPS – To reduce drug overdose deaths, Vancouver Coastal Health authority plans to track patients to make sure they are taking their prescribed opioids. I may seem odd that lives can be saved by making sure that patients take one opioid (Methadone) so that they don’t die from another (fentanyl). But that’s what statistics show.
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Tobacco is the largest health threat to gay and bisexual men today. Why is quitting so hard? In the early days of 2005, flush with $350,000 of Health Canada and provincial funding, community activist Steven RodRozen was hired to do something about the number of gay men who smoke. A new study at the time
Nearly half of gay and bisexual Vancouver men smoke – but why? Read More »
Counting men who have sex with men is harder than you might think How many gay and bisexual men do you think there are in Metro Vancouver? Think of a number. I’ll wait. If you guessed 30,000, or three percent of Vancouver men, you’re probably not far off, according to a new study by a
How many gay and bisexual men live in Vancouver? Read More »
De nouveaux traitements permettent à de plus en plus de Canadiennes atteintes du VIH de tomber enceintes, selon une tude. Prs de 25% des femmes ont signal une grossesse aprs avoir reçu un diagnostic du virus de l’immunodficience humaine (VIH), selon l’tude sur la sant sexuelle et reproductive des femmes vivant avec le VIH, qui
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Has increased optimism in the effectiveness of HIV treatment resulted in increased risky sex among men who have sex with men in Metro Vancouver?
How many men are there in Vancouver who have sex with other men? It’s a tricky question for numerous reasons. While U.S. sex researcher Alfred Kinsey’s estimate that one in ten men is homosexual has been traditionally cited though has since been discredited, B.C. researchers have come up with a different number. In an effort
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New, ‘most accurate’ data on men who have sex with men will help public health services and policy, hopes UBC scholar. Forget what you may have heard about “one-in-10” people being gay – a long-discredited figure that arose in sexologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s 1940s research. This week, a team of public health researchers at the
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During the Canada Post strike announced September 25, 2025, the following measures will be undertaken to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.
During the Canada Post strike, we recommend that documents be faxed or couriered to our sites, versus utilization of regular mail service
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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