Prince George HIV/AIDS patients to be paid to seek treatment in pilot project
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Mackenzie veterinarian looks to give back
Giving back and helping others. This is what made Manraj Sidhu from Mackenzie pursue a career in veterinary medicine. “Whatever career path I pursue, I hope to contribute back to the profession in some way,” said Sidhu, who began his first year of classes at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in August. He, along
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2017 Is the Year That HIV Stigma Is Finally Loosening
Studies have proven that having an undetectable viral load means you can’t transmit HIV-and people are finally waking up. This May, Hans Berlin, an HIV-positive gay porn star, gave an acceptance speech at the Grabbys, an annual awards show for the gay-porn industry. Hans was accepting an award for best threeway for a scene from
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City endorses international TasP-awareness campaign
Chicago Department of Public Health announced on Sept. 28 that city officials were joining the international “U=U” promotional campaign aimed both at raising awareness about the effectiveness of HIV treatment and reducing stigmatization of persons with HIV/AIDS. “U=U” is an abbreviation for “Undetectable=Untransmittable.” The campaign was launched in 2016 by the Prevention Access Campaign, an
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Australian clinic records show significant reduction in duration of infectiousness in HIV-positive gay men from 2007-2016
The period during which HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) are potentially infectious fell significantly between 2007 and 2016, investigators from Australia report in the online edition of AIDS. Data from Melbourne Sexual Health Centre showed that the intervals between HIV infection and diagnosis, between diagnosis to viral suppression and between infection to
Bring drug overdose plan to B.C. interior
KAMLOOPS – To reduce drug overdose deaths, Vancouver Coastal Health authority plans to track patients to make sure they are taking their prescribed opioids. I may seem odd that lives can be saved by making sure that patients take one opioid (Methadone) so that they don’t die from another (fentanyl). But that’s what statistics show.
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B.C. assesses Truvada, an HIV prevention drug that looks ‘very promising’
Health experts in B.C. are examining an HIV prevention drug that a Vancouver gay men’s health group wants to see covered provincially. The drug, called Truvada, was approved by Health Canada last year, and is prescribed both as a treatment for people with the disease, and as a preventative therapy meant to keep the virus
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Nearly half of gay and bisexual Vancouver men smoke – but why?
Tobacco is the largest health threat to gay and bisexual men today. Why is quitting so hard? In the early days of 2005, flush with $350,000 of Health Canada and provincial funding, community activist Steven RodRozen was hired to do something about the number of gay men who smoke. A new study at the time
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BC government drags feet on HIV-prevention drug coverage
Despite Horgan’s pre-election endorsement, free PrEP isn’t coming any time soon The BC government is putting the brakes on a pre-election endorsement of free pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs. In a statement to Xtra, the BC Ministry of Health says it will not be rolling out coverage of the HIV-prevention drugs anytime soon, despite a January
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B.C. support plan for opioid users modelled after HIV/AIDS strategy
A new pilot project modelled after a successful Vancouver-made HIV/AIDS strategy will have teams of medical professionals and other front-line staff regularly check in on thousands of people in the city on opioid-substitution therapy with the goal of making sure they don’t miss a day of treatment. The Best-practice is Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy Collaborative
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