Aboriginal

Day-to-day experiences of racism influence women’s access to HIV care, study

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Women living with HIV who experience higher levels of racism are less likely to be engaged in HIV care, according to research from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), BC Women’s Hospital and Simon Fraser University (SFU) published today in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). This finding is based on analysis of a cohort of over 1,400 women living with HIV in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec enrolled in CHIWOS, Canada’s largest ongoing community-based study.

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July/August 2010

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UNAIDS Treatment 2.0 based on made-in-B.C. “treatment as prevention” strategy A radical new approach to HIV treatment, dubbed “Treatment 2.0,” aims to dramatically increase testing andtreatment for HIV using the best available diagnostic tools and drugs, announced Michel Sidibé, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), at the XVIII International AIDS

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Jan-09

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Aboriginal street youth more likely to be HIV-positive In Canada, there are upwards of 150,000 homeless and street-involved youth, and they are far more vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. In fact, infection rates for diseases such as chlamydia and gonorrhea are 10 times that of the general adolescent population in the country.

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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.

  • The BC-CfE Laboratory has transitioned to private courier for delivery of outgoing reports and documents. Results required urgently can be faxed upon request. (Lab Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8775; FAX 604-806-9463)
  • The BC-CfE Drug Treatment Program (DTP) will fax outgoing forms and documents to the provider’s office. (DTP Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8515; FAX 604-806-9044)
  • St. Paul’s Hospital Ambulatory Pharmacy has transitioned to private courier for delivery of medications. We recommend requesting medication at least 2 weeks in advance in case of delivery delays, particularly to rural/remote parts of BC. (Contact Information: Phone 1-800-547-3622; FAX 604-806-8675)

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’.
For more details and example reports, please click on the button below

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