Michael Harris is the author of Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World and The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in an Age of Constant Connection. Most deaths are more mysterious than we admit. The cause of cancer in an elderly man may be rooted in the experiences of a schoolboy. Reasons […]
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December 1st is World AIDS Day, and the official United Nations theme this year is “Know Your Status.” Throughout the month of November, the BC-CfE has worked to build awareness about HIV and challenged British Columbians to learn more about HIV.
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More than 60,000 Canadians and 37 million people worldwide are living with HIV. In the early days of HIV and AIDS, there was enormous fear and discrimination – to the extent that in British Columbia politicians debated quarantining individuals with HIV. Since then, the arc of scientific progress on HIV has been swift. But HIV-related
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El 1 de diciembre se cumplen 30 años de la conmemoración del dÃa mundial del SIDA. La ONU-SIDA ha propuesto a nivel global para esta oportunidad el lema “conoce tu estado”, invitando a todas las personas a realizarse el test de VIH. En el 2017 vivÃan en el mundo casi 37 millones de personas con
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Ahead of World AIDS Day, newsGP spoke with a sexual health expert about the progress in the fight against HIV. World AIDS Day is held on 1 December each year to raise community awareness of HIV and AIDS, and show support for people living with HIV. The introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to the Pharmaceutical
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Patients can obtain a test without having to visit a physician Getting tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) just got easier for residents across the Interior Health (IH) region, now that On Demand testing is available at all IH laboratories (http://bit.ly/2PD39aL). Patients can now visit any IH lab – including the labs at the Ashcroft
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A study recently published in The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes indicates that transgender (trans) women in Brazil had low levels of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness. This was combined with significant proportions being willing to use PrEP as a prevention tool and being eligible for PrEP. Another recent qualitative study published in Culture, Health
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Los cientÃficos y expertos que se ocupan de las enfermedades de alto impacto social como son las adicciones a las drogas consideradas legales -como el tabaco y alcohol- o las ilegales – como la cocaÃna, marihuana, opiáceos, heroÃna, drogas sintticas, entre otras- o las enfermedades infecciones – como el HIV/SIDA- o las enfermedades no transmisibles
OVER 450 PEOPLE in Ireland have been diagnosed with HIV so far this year, while a total of 11,078 sexually transmitted infection diagnoses were reported. According to provisional data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), there were 454 new HIV diagnoses from January to November 2018. This is an increase of 66 people compared
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Fifteen years ago, the nation observed the first annual National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD). Since then, we’ve seen significant progress in the national and global response to HIV. This progress holds great promise for reducing new HIV infections and improving health outcomes for Latinos and all people living with HIV across the United States.
