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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