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Potent combination HIV therapy (commonly called ART or HAART) can significantly prolong life. In high-income countries such as Canada, Australia and the U.S. and regions such as Western Europe, doctors increasingly estimate that young adults diagnosed today and who begin ART shortly thereafter and who take their medicines every day exactly as directed and who… Read more »

by Travis Lupick on Jan 13, 2014 at 2:43 pm via the Georgia Straight In place since 2005, the regulation essentially prohibits programs such as needle exchanges and needle collection and disposal activities. Scott Bernstein, a lawyer with Pivot Legal Society, told the Straight that he’s “cautiously optimistic” that amendments will proceed to a second… Read more »

The Depth of Water Requires Knowledge: Listening to the Voices of the HIV Patient Journey report attempts to document the greatest areas of need and obstacles currently facing the HIV-positive population in Prince George, BC. It is our hope, that this process and report will be useful as a model/template in other regions and with… Read more »

Following the successful staging of the 2013 Australian National Indigenous Health Conference, it has been decided that once every three years, the conference would be a full international First Peoples conference. The venue for this year’s international conference will be organized in Cairns, Queensland. The highlights of the 2014 international event will endeavour would be… Read more »

Dear PAN Membership, CATIE is evaluating their programs and services to better understand how they are doing at meeting the needs of people working on the front lines of the response to HIV and hepatitis C in Canada. This information is critical to CATIE as it allows them to better understand how they are doing… Read more »

  Spotlight on programming and research HIV home-based testing: Potential benefits and ongoing concerns Home-based HIV tests are available in some countries. We look at home-based tests and the potential benefits and ongoing concerns surrounding them.   Views from the front lines: Home-based HIV testing We spoke to three people about their thoughts on home-based… Read more »

According to researchers, the main causes of persistent liver disease include: chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection alcoholic liver disease (ALD) non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) autoimmune liver disease Regardless of the instigator of chronic liver disease, liver damage usually proceeds along a common route, causing chronic inflammation, the… Read more »

Since the late 1990s new cases of HIV and syphilis have been increasing in men who have sex with men (MSM) in Canada, Australia, Western Europe and the U.S. Syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can injure tissues, resulting in inflammation and sores (sometimes painless) on or inside delicate ano-genital tissues, the mouth and… Read more »