Plus tôt ce mois-ci, nous avons appris la triste nouvelle du décès de Timothy Ray Brown. Aussi connu sous le nom de « patient de Berlin », Timothy est la première personne au monde à avoir guéri du VIH. Bien qu’il soit demeuré séronégatif jusqu’à son décès, la leucémie qu’il avait combattue par le passé a refait surface en 2019.
The term “satellite sites” is used to refer to informal harm reduction hubs operating out of the homes of people who use drugs. Operating in Toronto for more than 20 years, these sites offer access to sterile drug use supplies outside of more formal settings like health centres. Although many satellite sites offer much more than this – including naloxone and overdose response training, needle disposal and referrals to healthcare services. Satellite programs emerged from the recognition that people who use drugs were already doing this work within their communities, operating informally to meet harm reduction needs and respond to a range of other health needs.
La communauté de l’hépatite C a appris une excellente nouvelle dès son réveil le matin du 5 octobre 2020. En effet, une avalanche de gazouillis, de textos et de courriels répandait la nouvelle selon laquelle le prix Nobel de 2020 de physiologie ou de médecine avait été décerné aux Dr Michael Houghton (Université de l’Alberta, Réseau canadien sur l’hépatite C), Dr Harvey J. Alter (National Institutes of Health des États-Unis) et Dr Charles M. Rice (Université Rockefeller) pour leurs rôles dans la découverte du virus de l’hépatite C.
Current HIV prevention efforts have and continue to fail Black same-gender-loving (SGL)* men. But with meaningful reflection and changes to service delivery, this can change.
Thirty years ago, a group of scientists gathered around a kitchen table on Davie Street, in the heart of Vancouver’s West End, to discuss ways to provide better care for and prolong the lives of people living with HIV who, at the time, were dying by the hundreds and extremely stigmatized. In Canada, there was not yet a network for physicians to come together and conduct HIV clinical trials. And so, the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) was born, providing a platform for Canadian researchers to generate good scientific evidence.
Does your organization support the meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experience of substance use? The assumption and our immediate response to this question should be a resounding yes! However, we know that this is often not the case.
