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VANCOUVER, BC – The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) announced Dr. Zabrina Brumme has been appointed Director of Canada’s leading HIV laboratory program. . Dr. Brumme will be on secondment from her position as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she additionally holds a Michael […]

New research warns that mutated strains of HIV detected in Saskatchewan, Canada, appear to be leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses. The research, published this month in the science journal “AIDS“, came about after health workers reported rapidly-growing HIV rates in 2016 in the west Canadian province of Saskatchewan, with the vast majority of cases among

Uma mutação de estirpes do VIH pode levar a um desenvolvimento mais acelerado de doenças relacionadas com a sida, de acordo com um estudo feito na região canadiana de Saskatchewan, que tem das taxas mais altas da doença neste país da AmŽrica do Norte, revela um estudo publicado na revista científica Aids, tambŽm noticiado pelo

A mutated strain of HIV spotted in Canada is driving sufferers to develop AIDS quicker than usual, a study reveals. The strain is circulating in Saskatchewan, where 80 percent of people diagnosed with the illness are Indigenous. Doctors started reporting alarmingly rapid declines among patients in 2016, when the rate of HIV infections rocketed to

Strains circulating in Saskatchewan, where nearly 80% of infected are indigenous, may lead to faster development of related viruses Mutated strains of HIV circulating in a Canadian province where HIV rates rank among the highest in North America could be leading to the more rapid development of Aids-related illnesses, according to new research. The research,

AMSTERDAM – Des souches mutantes de VIH qui circulent en Saskatchewan entraînent le dŽveloppement plus rapide de maladies liŽes au sida chez la population autochtone, affirme une nouvelle Žtude. La recherche du Centre d’excellence sur le VIH / sida de la Colombie-Britannique et de l’UniversitŽ Simon Fraser a ŽtŽ prŽsentŽe jeudi, dans le cadre de

Mutated strains of HIV circulating in Saskatchewan are leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses in the Indigenous population, new research has shown. The research from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Simon Fraser University was presented at the 2018 AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on Thursday. It showed that the strains of HIV in Saskatchewan

La progression anormalement rapide du VIH en Saskatchewan est due à une mutation du virus lui permettant de rŽsister à la rŽponse immunitaire dŽclenchŽe par les personnes infectŽes, affirme une Žtude menŽe par des universitaires de la Colombie-Britannique. Une mutation clŽ a ŽtŽ trouvŽe dans plus de 80 % des souches du VIH en Saskatchewan,