World AIDS Day: “Know Your Status”
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Canadian, Chinese HIV/AIDS control agencies renew partnership: expert
VANCOUVER, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) — Canada’s British Columbia (B.C.) Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS has renewed a memorandum of understanding with China’s AIDS control and prevention agency, according to the head of the center. The paper was signed between the B.C. center and the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease
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My ex died of AIDS – but that’s not what killed him
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 – Know Your Status
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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What you need to know about HIV/AIDS today
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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A 30 años de la conmemoración del día mundial del SIDA
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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No longer a death sentence: Australia making progress in diagnosis and management of HIV
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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On Demand HIV testing now available at all Interior Health labs
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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High levels of unmet PrEP needs among transgender women in Brazil
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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Nora Volkow: “Es una locura criminalizar al adicto a las drogas, necesita tratamiento mdico y no ir a la cárcel”
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