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Indétectable = Intransmissible – CATIE y adhère

 13 janvier 2017 •  Par Laurie Edmiston

Nous tous, ici, chez CATIE, et par le fait même les gens de partout au monde, célèbrent l’avancée la plus importante dans le monde du VIH depuis l’avènement du traitement combiné efficace il y a 20 ans : les personnes vivant avec le VIH et ayant une charge virale indétectable durable peuvent déclarer avec confiance à leurs partenaires sexuels qu’elles ne sont pas contagieuses! Le caractère « fabuleux » de cette annonce ne peut être sous-estimé. Avec ou sans condom, si vous êtes indétectable, vous ne transmettrez pas le VIH! Cette avancée change toute la donne et les personnes vivant avec le VIH...

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The Face of Our Story

 15 novembre 2016 •  Par Signe Dewar and Tom Barnard

The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, in partnership with the Toronto Community Hep C Program (TCHCP), invited people with lived experience of hepatitis C to take part in an art project called The Face of Our Story. In that project, clay tiles depicting stories of lived experience would be displayed at the museum on World Hepatitis Day, July 28, 2016. This is the story of two artists who participated in the event.

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More obvious and sinister villains are responsible for the number of drug overdose deaths in Vancouver Island

 25 octobre 2016 •  Par Shane Calder

As of August 31st, 2016, the number of drug overdose deaths in the province of B.C. sat at 488, with the highest rate of fatal drug overdose occurring on Vancouver Island, where there has been a 135 per cent increase in fatal drug overdoses since August 31st, 2015 (compared to a 43.5 per cent increase provincially during the same time period). Health authorities, law enforcement, public health officers and politicians alike have stood shoulder to shoulder blaming fentanyl as the culprit; however I suggest that more obvious and sinister villains are responsible.

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From CWGHR to realize: A Coming of Age Story

 11 octobre 2016 •  Par Tammy C. Yates

Picture it … Quebec City, 1998, thirty people with diverse interests, identities and professions meet to discuss the idea of HIV and rehabilitation for the first time. All were curious, but unsure of the connection between rehabilitation and HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and the role they could play. There the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR) was born! As people were no longer expecting to die of AIDS, this group of pioneers could see that rehabilitation – in a broad sense – was key to enabling people living with HIV to not only survive, but also thrive.

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We need to address the unique and complex issues of Indigenous people living with HIV

 4 octobre 2016 •  Par Cécile Kazatchkine and Sandra Ka Hon Chu

Indigenous people in Canada are disproportionately affected by HIV, representing 10.8 per cent of new HIV infections and 9.1 per cent of people living with HIV in Canada.[1]  In Saskatchewan alone, the number of Indigenous people living with HIV is around twice the national average and the highest in Canada and “one of the few places in the industrialized world where people are still dying from AIDS and HIV.” Lack of access to HIV treatment and care among other complex factors contributes to these alarming rates: in many rural or remote areas, HIV-specific services are simply not available, or the small...

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HPV Vaccine: Who needs it?

 7 juin 2016 •  Par Dr. Irving Salit

Did you know that men can get HPV cancers? HPV (the human papillomavirus) causes warts, pre-cancers and cancers. HPV is most famous for causing cervical cancer so it has mainly been linked in people’s minds to cancer in women. Because of that, HPV cancer prevention programs have only focused on women (for example, governments spend many millions on cervical cancer screening and immunizing girls against HPV). However, HPV is readily passed between partners and the other half of the world (men!) get HPV as much as women do. So let us get the facts straight about HPV in men and women and what to do about it.

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