On May 27th, 2014, eight years ago today, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Providence Health Care closed the dedicated HIV/AIDS inpatient unit at St. Paul’s Hospital, known as ward 10C, and repurposed it into an urban health unit. This was a historic landmark, as Vancouver became the first city in the world to repurpose its AIDS ward
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On December 1st we celebrate World AIDS Day, an opportunity to reflect on our challenges and successes four decades into the battle against HIV/AIDS. Around the world there are nearly 38 million people living with HIV and about 1.5 million new infections per year. A recent report by the World Health Organization estimates the number of people with the virus being treated with antiretrovirals had risen to 27.5 million – an increase of almost 10% over the last year. Encouraging but not enough.
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Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, has issued the following statement in recognition of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 2021: “Today, on World AIDS Day, and during Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week, we show our solidarity with people living with HIV and AIDS here in British Columbia. We mourn those we have lost and we celebrate
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Today, July 28th, is World Hepatitis Day, a day to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and also to influence meaningful change in delivering care to those living with the virus. The theme this year is ‘Hepatitis Can’t Wait’.
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On June 8th the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS adopted a set of new and ambitious targets.
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June 5 marked 40 years since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first described cases of what came to be known as AIDS. Since then, UNAIDS estimates nearly 33 million people have died from HIV/AIDS, and about 38 million people currently live with HIV. Millions of those deaths and infections could have been
New South Wales Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant today released the NSW HIV Strategy 2021-2025, which aims to achieve the virtual elimination of HIV transmission in NSW. NSW is a world leader in responding to HIV. The Strategy builds on the success of its predecessor, which saw substantial improvements in HIV prevention, testing and
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VANCOUVER — A team of B.C. doctors, researchers and clinicians is urging the provincial government to reconsider its vaccination strategy for the elderly after they found seniors aren’t developing enough antibodies to COVID-19 after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine – a recommendation that’s become more urgent with the expansion of visitation to care homes.
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The first time I ever saw Demetre Daskalakis, M.D., M.P.H., was in April 2017, at an afternoon dance party at the AIDS Memorial in downtown New York to end HIV stigma and celebrate the science of U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable. As I was boogie-oogie-oogie-ing, my friend asked me if I recognized the DJ. I looked
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Despite more than 35 years of research, scientists have yet to find a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been a major breakthrough that does help suppress the virus, but it’s not a cure. And while there have been a few well-publicized
