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Celebrating six months of success preventing new HIV infections throughout B.C.

June 26, 2018 | BC Gov News

People throughout B.C. are benefiting from expanded coverage for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), as strong uptake for the publicly funded drug continues to grow.

Everyday racism hinders Indigenous women with HIV from accessing care: study

June 20, 2018 | The Globe and Mail

Indigenous women living with HIV experience everyday incidents of racism that impede their access to care disproportionately to other groups, according to a study involving more than 1,400 women across Canada.

Day-to-day experiences of racism influence women’s access to HIV care, study

June 19, 2018 | BC-CfE

Women living with HIV who experience higher levels of racism are less likely to be engaged in HIV care, according to research from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), BC Women’s Hospital and Simon Fraser University (SFU) published today in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS). This finding is based on analysis of a cohort of over 1,400 women living with HIV in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec enrolled in CHIWOS, Canada’s largest ongoing community-based study.

‘Game-changer’ HIV prevention drug could be leading to lower condom use: studies

June 18, 2018 | Global News

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is a “game-changer” when it comes to preventing HIV infections, doctors say. But some new studies are suggesting that people who take it use condoms less often — increasing their risk of contracting other sexually-transmitted infections.

As with HIV, treatment as prevention will be essential for elimination of hepatitis C

June 16, 2018 | BC-CfE

Reaching people living with HIV with care, treatment and support to improve their longevity and quality of life, and to prevent new infections (a concept known as Treatment as Prevention, or TasP) has helped bring the HIV epidemic under control in British Columbia. TasP is a strategy many countries around the world have adopted.

Yes, HIV-Positive Men Can Become Fathers. Here's Two Providers Who Help Them

June 15, 2018 | The Body

In HIV, we pay a lot of attention to parenthood -- but mostly from the perspective of ending mother-to-child transmission. Even then, the public health message is often mostly about the baby, not the health and well-being of the mother.

New Study in Lancet HIV Journal Ties PrEP to Drop in Condom Use

June 13, 2018 | Business Wire

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study of gay and bisexual men taking PrEP or pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV acquisition published in the Lancet HIV Journal last week confirms long-held concerns of public health advocates affiliated with AHF: While the use of PrEP may result in a decrease in transmission of HIV, it also contributes to a decrease in the use of condoms at a time when rates of other STDs in the US and elsewhere among young people and men-who-have-sex-with-men are exploding— infections for which PrEP offers no preventive effect.

Spring ARV Update: Publicly-funded PrEP off to strong start in BC

June 13, 2018 | BC-CfE

An HIV prevention program, available at no cost to people at high risk of HIV, is enrolling over 400 participants – primarily men who have sex with men (MSM) – every month right across BC. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a daily oral antiretroviral medication that prevents new HIV infection when taken consistently.

‘We’re in a mess.’ Why Florida is struggling with an unusually severe HIV/AIDS problem

June 13, 2018 | Science

IN FLORIDA—It's a Tuesday afternoon in April, and doctors at the adult HIV/AIDS clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami face their usual onslaught of patients. There's the young, recently diagnosed gay man from Venezuela here for his first appointment. An older gay man who emigrated from Colombia and has been treated at the clinic for 18 years. A 37-year-old Massachusetts native who is battling a heroin addiction, has a drug-related heart condition, and has done time for selling sex. Rounding out the queue are an undocumented grandmother from the Dominican Republic, a mentally challenged and occasionally homeless African-American woman, and an elderly Haitian woman in a wheelchair.

In the face of a misguided response to HIV/AIDS in Russia, these bright stars are taking charge

June 11, 2018 | Science

In 2015, Pavel Lobkov, a news anchor on TV Rain, an independent station in Moscow, confronted a predicament unlike any he had faced in more than 2 decades working as a journalist. It was World AIDS Day, and he was slated to host a show.

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