The HIV/AIDS story illustrates how attitudes in society can change, and that progress is possible with collective action. President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to the United States to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s propelled an unprecedented wave of innovation and expertise in science that is still felt today. […]
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Some of the province’s most vulnerable people will benefit from research into HIV/AIDS, addiction and viral hepatitis that will be carried out at the world-class Hope to Health Research Centre following a successful expansion project supported in part through $2 million in government funding. |
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A new walk-in clinic for people with opioid addictions and other health issues including HIV and hepatitis C is opening in the Downtown Eastside. The clinic, called Connections, will be accessible through a door on the alley at an expanded Hope to Health Research Centre at 625 Powell. People will be able to walk into
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A new walk-in clinic for people with opioid addictions and other health issues including HIV and hepatitis C is opening in the Downtown Eastside. The clinic, called Connections, will be accessible through a door on the alley at an expanded Hope to Health Research Centre at 625 Powell. People will be able to walk into
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Dr. Mark Hull is a world leader in the fight against HIV. As a researcher at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada’s largest AIDS research, treatment and educational facility, his work focuses on infectious disease, including hep C and HIV in Aboriginal communities. A recognized expert in HIV medicine, he is working on
Vancouver’s Health Initiative for Men has endorsed an international campaign to communicate the latest HIV research. The results may surprise you. “Hey guys!” proclaimed a recent Facebook post from the Health Initiative for Men (HIM). “Well, we’re making it official: U=U! … UNDETECTABLE=UNINFECTIOUS!” The big news unveiled by the Vancouver gay men’s health organization may
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TasP – or Treatment as Prevention-aims to promote awareness that it’s incredibly difficult to get HIV from someone who’s undetectable. But that idea is proving a hard pill to swallow “This is a world that is run mostly by HIV-negative people, and they’re focused on protecting their own interests,” Bruce Richman tells me. He’s the
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Bob Leahy has been with the Undetectable = Untransmittable campaign in Canada from the beginning. Here he tells the remarkable story of how a movement led by people living with HIV changed the HIV message forever. It was the domino effect. Once CATIE signed on to U = U, others quickly scrambled to do the
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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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