Tag: Hep C programming for PWUD

INHSU 2022: Canada’s place in the global landscape of the health of people who use drugs and hepatitis C elimination

December 21, 2022 • By Rivka Kushner and Brooke Nolan

The International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) hosted its first hybrid virtual and in-person conference in Glasgow, Scotland, from October 19 to 21, 2022. INHSU brings together healthcare and social service providers, researchers, people with lived and living experience, advocates, policy-makers and community leaders to discuss emerging issues, innovative programs, new research and approaches to supporting the health of people who use drugs around the world. Main conference themes included reducing harms and improving the health of people who use drugs, as well as assessing progress and possibilities related to achieving the elimination of hepatitis C...

INHSU 2022: Global perspectives on the health of people who use drugs

December 13, 2022 • By Christopher Hoy

In October 2022, CATIE attended the 10th International Conference on Health and Hepatitis Care in Substance Users, INHSU 2022, in Glasgow, Scotland. INHSU 2022 is the leading international conference on hepatitis C and the health of people who use drugs. Researchers, frontline service providers, policy-makers, advocates and people with lived and living experience gathered from around the world to share and discuss the latest in research, programs and policy on the health of people who use drugs. We interviewed several Canadian and international attendees to share what they learned at INHSU 2022, as well as their reflections on the future...

The fight for supervised consumption sites to remain open in Alberta

August 30, 2021 • By Kathleen Larose

Just like across Canada, the number of overdoses continues to climb in Alberta because of a toxic drug supply, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic that has interrupted the supply of drugs. In Alberta, drug toxicity deaths have been devastating to people with lived or living experience of substance use, as well as their friends and families. In the province alone, we have seen 1,334 fatal overdoses in 2020. We mourn each person lost.

Tackling the root causes of Canada’s overdose crisis

February 6, 2019 • By Gillian Kolla and Laurie Edmiston

Imagine 11 Canadians fatally poisoned every day, with the death toll climbing every year. Imagine hospitals across the country dealing with a 27% surge in admissions to treat these poisonings, and a 73% increase in emergency room visits in Ontario alone.

Nothing for us, without us!

December 10, 2018 • By Kate Mason

Despite the fact that harm reduction services and ideas are always started by people who use drugs, they are not always included in the design and delivery of these programs as they become more formalized, especially in healthcare settings and for medical issues related to drug use.

Eliminating viral hepatitis is possible: Four lessons from the World Hepatitis Summit

November 16, 2017 • By Melisa Dickie

As deaths from many communicable diseases continue to decline globally, deaths caused by viral hepatitis have now surpassed all other chronic infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Yet it is one of the few global health threats with easy solutions. Highly effective vaccines exist for hepatitis A and B. We now have a cure for hepatitis C. With these tools at our disposal, why aren’t we seeing an impact on the epidemic?