Category: Research

On Point: Recommendations for Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada

Posted On: Monday, February 15th, 2016

The Department of Criminology at Ryerson University, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and PASAN (Prisoners with HIV Support Action Network) have released a research report entitled ‘On Point: Recommendations for Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada’. This report is the culmination of a multi-phase, multi-year undertaking that involved broad consultation and primary research to create… Read more »

STUDY RECRUITING: The SHAWNA Project

Posted On: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

Are you a woman living with HIV (Trans inclusive, 14+) living or accessing care in Metro Vancouver? The SHAWNA Project (Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS: Women’s Longitudinal Needs Assessment) is looking for women living with HIV who are living with or accessing care in Metro Vancouver to participate in a five-year research project aimed at understanding… Read more »

5 Questions with Jaydee Cossar, PAN’s Manager of PLDI and the PLHIV Stigma Index Project

Posted On: Monday, December 7th, 2015

Jaydee is a former staff member of PAN. Jaydee joined the PAN team in the Spring of 2015, as Manager of the Positive Leadership Development Institute, and Manager of the People Living with HIV Stigma Index project.   What first piqued your interest in the HIV sector? I remember learning about HIV at the same time… Read more »

CIHR features PAN’s Positive Living Positive Homes Study

Posted On: Monday, November 30th, 2015

Writers, philosophers and artists around the globe have tried to capture the feeling of “home”—that psychological state of warmth and security, of familiarity and heart—and even though the feeling may be different for each of us, we can usually agree that “home” is a special place. It’s not surprising, then, that where we live can… Read more »

Study on suicide prevention is recruiting in Vancouver

Posted On: Tuesday, November 24th, 2015

As many as 1 in 5 gay and bisexual men have attempted suicide. We don’t know why. A research study in Vancouver is gathering personal life-stories of men who have attempted suicide as an adult, in order to better understand this important issue. This study is asking local community-based organizations to help get the word… Read more »

Research Roundtable on Criminalization of HIV and Women in BC: Research Priority-Setting Report Back

Posted On: Monday, November 23rd, 2015

On October 23, 2015, the Gender & Sexual Health Initiative (of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS), Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and Positive Women’s Network (PWN) on behalf of the Women, HIV and the Law Project held a one-day Research Roundtable for a small group of leading experts, including women living with HIV (WLWH), academics, AIDS support organizations (ASOs), clinicians, and legal… Read more »

5 Questions with Vicki Nygaard, Kamloops Site Coordinator for Positive Living, Positive Homes

Posted On: Thursday, November 12th, 2015

Vicki is a former staff member of PAN.   Vicki has been teaching sociology for many years at several BC universities and colleges, and the courses she loves most are the ones focused on social justice. She has worked on several research projects in the past, including a cross-Canada study on the situations of contingent… Read more »

CATIE News – Modest effectiveness of short-course therapy in cases of advanced HCV-related liver injury

Posted On: Monday, November 9th, 2015

In Canada and most other high-income countries today, standard treatment for people who have genotype 1 infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) includes combinations of medicines called direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). These are medicines that are taken orally, every day, usually for 12 to 24 consecutive weeks. In large clinical trials, treatment with modern DAAs—such as… Read more »

Engage Study Newsletter #4 – Only two months left of study recruitment!

Posted On: Monday, November 2nd, 2015

We will be wrapping up our two-year recruitment period at the end of December, 2015.  Please ask anyone you know who may be eligible to give us a call before then so that they can be included in this important research. So far, we’ve enrolled 86 individuals in the study and done qualitative interviews with 20 of those individuals…. Read more »

Smart Sex Resource – How does WelTel improve HIV+ patient care? Perspectives from care providers.

Posted On: Monday, October 26th, 2015

by MCM Murray, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Infectious Disease Specialist, BC Women’s and St. Paul’s Hospitals, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia. Background Since its introduction in 1996, combined anti-retroviral therapy (cART) has led to enormous improvements in the health and survival of HIV positive (HIV+) persons. However, the success of cART is intrinsic upon patient… Read more »