From CATIE, Sean R. Hosein reports on studies comparing the effect of comorbidities on life expectancy in people living with HIV and those who are HIV-negative. In the 20th century, life expectancy increased in Canada and other high-income countries thanks to improvements in medicine, better living conditions and so on. These changes have led some […]
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People with HIV are now living longer, and are less likely to die from an AIDS-defining illness. What do we know about their health and quality of life today?
Donation largest by private citizen to single medical facility in Canadian history, foundation says. B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison has donated $75 million to the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation in Vancouver. The St. Paul’s Foundation says the donation is the largest by a private citizen to a single medical facility in Canadian history. “Jim Pattison’s gift
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“HIV in the Media” is part of a project Diego Mora Bello is working on as an HRC Global Fellow and a Next Generation Leader with The McCain Institute. HRC’s Global Fellows program seeks to identify outstanding established and emerging LGBTQ leaders from around the world and bring them to Washington, D.C. to work alongside
Three Reasons Why Language is Important in Media Coverage of HIV Read More »
Every five years, Ryan White Care (RWC) requires its programs to prepare new plans to adjust to the changing epidemic. Biomedical advances, such as PrEP and Treatment as Prevention, have changed how people understand HIV. It has become difficult to separate HIV Prevention from Treatment. Florida’s RWC programs have submitted their new five-year plans. This
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The prevalence of resistance to nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors among HIV-infected individuals has increased to ‘alarming levels’ in Aruba, reaching 45% in 2015, researchers reported. L. Marije Hofstra, MD, of the department of medical microbiology at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, and colleagues discovered that the increase in resistance is due to a
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The latest HIV Pulse looks at how HIV affects women in BC, a group that makes up approximately 18% of the population living with HIV in the province. The latest data shows HIV care and treatment for women is improving.
Data on HIV and Women in British Columbia Shows Improvement in Access to Care, Treatment Read More »
We caught up with Gilead‘s Mike Elliott to find out the latest in HIV medication and whether a cure is finally within our reach… HIV capsid inhibitors – what are they and how do they work to attack the virus? Capsid inhibitors are a new class of medicines that have the potential to be used
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Gilead’s latest antiretroviral drug claims lower side effects, but what about the cost? A new antiretroviral drug will soon be available to Canadian HIV patients, but it comes with a dose of controversy and likely a daunting price tag. Odefsey, the successor to the older Complera, is the latest in Gilead Sciences’ line of anti-HIV
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The Fraser Health STOP HIV/AIDS¨ (Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention) team is dedicated to the prevention, testing, treatment and provision of support services for all sexually transmitted and blood borne infections, including HIV. The Fraser Health Authority serves 1.8 million people living in communities stretching from Burnaby to White Rock to Hope. A group of outreach nurses shared about their experiences working as part of the STOP team.
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The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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