In this week’s brief tour of recently published research, we get a new glimpse into the huge successes of Vancouver’s years-long effort to reduce harm and increase HIV-related services among injection drug users. We also learn about the relative safety of stem-cell transplantation in people with HIV, the ability of certain biomarkers to predict future […]
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This Saturday, federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor will be in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to visit ground zero of the worst public-health crisis in decades. In British Columbia, people are dying of drug overdose at a rate of almost four per day. Across Canada, more people are dying than at the height of the HIV-AIDS
Initiating combination anti-HIV therapy (ART) can greatly reduce the amount of HIV in the blood (viral load). Over time, as the viral load continues to fall, in the majority of people it reaches a very low level that cannot be accurately assessed using routine laboratory tests. Such low viral load levels are commonly called “undetectable.”
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It’s the first program of its kind in Canada and could mark a radical change in the way treatment is offered to people living with opioid use disorder. The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) marked the launch of the BOOST (Best-practices in Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy) Collaborative by
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A new pilot project modelled after a successful Vancouver-made HIV/AIDS strategy will have teams of medical professionals and other front-line staff regularly check in on thousands of people in the city on opioid-substitution therapy with the goal of making sure they don’t miss a day of treatment. The Best-practice is Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy Collaborative
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While HIV infection rates are shrinking across Ontario, the virus has seen an uptick in London Health authorities in London say while HIV infection rates across Ontario are shrinking, London has seen a sharp surge with a higher than average prevalence of needle drug use likely to blame for the problem. It comes a little
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The number of HIV tests performed across British Columbia has doubled since 2011, but preliminary study results shows access to care is emerging as an issue for patients. Rolando Barrios with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says HIV testing episodes have increased for men and women since a 2011
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While the good news is that overall HIV infections rates have been in decline in British Columbia, rates among men who have sex with men (MSM) are not. What’s more, the rate is in fact increasing among MSM who are visible minorities. Compounding this concern is the fact that there has been little to no
