Category: Research

Call for Abstracts: North American Housing & HIV/AIDS Research Summit on the Social Drivers of HIV

Posted On: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

NORTH AMERICAN HOUSING & HIV/AIDS RESEARCH SUMMIT VIII SEPTEMBER 14 – 16, 2015, Washington, DC The scope of Summit VIII is expanded to include the full range of social drivers of HIV, including poverty, housing status, food security, employment, incarceration, race/ethnicity, behavioral health issues, stigma and intimate partner violence. What impact do these drivers have… Read more »

Universities Without Walls – “Institutional ethnography & HIV”, an online colloquium hosted by Colin Hastings

Posted On: Friday, April 24th, 2015

Institutional ethnography & investigations into the social dimensions of HIV Wednesday, April 29 2:00-3:00pm EST CLICK HERE to register and watch Colin’s welcome video. This online colloquia will provide an introduction to a form of sociological research called institutional ethnography. As we explore the ways that institutional ethnography can be applied to social studies of… Read more »

CATIE News – Implementing a screening program for domestic abuse

Posted On: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015

Thanks to the availability of potent combination anti-HIV therapy (commonly called ART or HAART), many people with HIV are living longer in high-income countries such as Canada. As a result, researchers in the HIV field are able to explore a range of different issues in the lives of this population. One such issue is intimate… Read more »

CATIE HepCinfo Update 6.7

Posted On: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015

New and Noteworthy In this issue: Harvoni and sofosbuvir added to formularies in Alberta, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan Sexual transmission of Hep C linked to anal sex, drug use and lower CD4 count Re-infection is likely the cause of Hep C recurrence after being cured from treatment

New McCreary report: Sexual health of youth in BC

Posted On: Wednesday, April 15th, 2015

The McCreary Centre Society has released its first full length report about the sexual health of youth in BC. Using data from the 2013 BC Adolescent Health Survey (BC AHS), the report shows that the majority of Grade 7 –12 students in BC are not sexually active, and youth who do have sex are waiting… Read more »

CATIE News – Québec researchers call for interventions to support HIV-positive mothers

Posted On: Wednesday, April 15th, 2015

A team of researchers at several universities and clinics in Montreal conducted a study to explore issues related to healthcare access and mental health among HIV-positive mothers. In detailed interviews with 100 mothers, the researchers uncovered several issues that affected the women’s mental health. The team made recommendations for doctors, nurses and other care providers,… Read more »

Universities Without Walls: “Risky Business”, an online colloquium hosted by Mark Gaspar

Posted On: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

Risky Business: Examining the Role of Risk in HIV Prevention Research and Everyday Life Wednesday, April 15 2:00-3:00pm EST CLICK HERE to register and watch Mark’s welcome video. The concept of risk plays a fundamental role in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, shaping our research questions, education strategies, governance and activism. Ultimately, ideas about risk come to… Read more »

STI Updates – STI trends among MSM in BC using a novel sentinel surveillance system

Posted On: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

Background Case reports are the basis of most sexually-transmitted infection (STI) reporting systems, but reliance on case data alone is limited by an inability to describe trends among key populations, such as gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Sentinel surveillance, in which disease monitoring is done at select sites when… Read more »

CATIE News – French study hints at marijuana’s potential for reducing diabetes risk

Posted On: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

Thanks to the widespread availability of potent combination anti-HIV therapy (commonly called ART or HAART), many HIV-positive people are living longer and researchers increasingly expect that some of these people will reach old age. As HIV-positive people age, their risk for type 2 diabetes and other complications related to aging will likely increase. The precursor… Read more »

Sex Now Survey: The Next Generation

Posted On: Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Most of you will be familiar with the Sex Now Survey. This year, Sex Now: The Next Generation is probing the range of experiences that end up affecting our health through several generations of gay and bisexual men. As you already know, health status is rooted in our personal slice of history. We want to… Read more »

CATIE News – Age-related macular degeneration in HIV

Posted On: Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Researchers at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and elsewhere in the U.S. have been monitoring the eyes of people who have survived AIDS. They found that out of 1,825 participants, 10% had intermediate-stage AMD. Compared to HIV-negative people, the rate of AMD among these long-term survivors of AIDS was four-fold greater. The findings… Read more »