Interview with Dr. Julio Montaner, mention of BC-CfE and TasP
Segment from 1:40:13 – 1:49:33
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Landmark Study Reveals Growth of Hepatitis C Epidemic Peaked around 1950
Globally, 185 million people are living with hepatitis C virus (HCV). There are 300,000 people living with HCV in Canada and 3.5 million people living with HCV in the United States. The vast majority of adults infected with HCV in North America, as well as some other developed countries, are part of the generational cohort
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Baby boomer Hepatitis C epidemic linked to medical procedures, not risky behaviour
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS study finds many baby boomers could have contracted virus in childhood, urges testing. British Columbia researchers have shattered the prevailing stigma that most baby boomers diagnosed with hepatitis C contracted it via risky behaviour. Dr. Julio Montaner and his team at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS partnered
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Hepatitis C in baby boomers unrelated to risky behaviour, researchers say
TORONTO – Canadian researchers have determined the peak of the hepatitis C epidemic in North America occurred about 15 years earlier than previously believed, suggesting it wasn’t youthful indiscretions that put baby boomers at a high risk for the disease. And that means, say researchers, that all those who belong to the post-Second World War
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Apportioning blame in the North American hepatitis C virus epidemic
A novel investigation into the North American spread of hepatitis C virus permits blame shifting, which the authors Jeffrey Joy and colleagues hope will increase the number of baby boomers who undergo testing. The medical community can now take its share of the responsibility for hepatitis C virus infection in its conversations with the 1945-65
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Baby boomers at risk of hidden hepatitis C, but unrelated to behaviour
TORONTO — Canadian researchers have determined the peak of the hepatitis C epidemic in North America occurred about 15 years earlier than previously believed, suggesting it wasn’t youthful indiscretions that put baby boomers at a high risk for the disease. And that means, say researchers, that all those who belong to the post-Second World War
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Cuba’s Gay Scene and HIV Education Are Impressing Americans
As a youth growing up in Chicago, Phill Wilson had a Cuban fetish. The Spanish literature major romanticized the island nation, which was off-limits to U.S. travelers since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963. A half-century later, Wilson – now the out president of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute -would find himself en route
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Men Are Not Macaques and Other Lessons From Long-Acting PrEP Study
Imagine seeing a patient every eight weeks for a few quick injections into the buttocks that could prevent HIV between appointments. That’s the promise of the ÉCLAIR trial of the investigational integrase strand transfer inhibitor cabotegravir, which had its phase-2 results unveiled at CROI 2016 in February. ÉCLAIR was one of two trials of long-acting
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Mags Portman: The PrEP debate gains momentum
This blog was originally written for BMJ Clinical Evidence and posted on blogs.bmj.com/ce/ Last week saw a landmark shift in the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV debate in England. After 18 months of work with key stakeholders-including clinicians, commissioners, and community advocates-NHS England announced that it was no longer able to fund a significant PrEP
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Why Some Prisoners With HIV Get Better Treatment Than Others
With the highest incarceration rate of any state in the nation, Louisiana locks up so many people that 40 percent of those sentenced to serve time in state prisons are instead sent to a local parish jail. This has long created a two-tiered system: People in prisons have access to educational and vocational programs in
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