Ce billet de blogue est un suivi d’un autre billet qui a été publié le 27 août, 2019 sur le Modèle directeur pour guider les efforts d’élimination de l’hépatite C au Canada.
This blog post is a follow-up from an earlier post published on July 11, 2019. As I work on a new funding proposal, this statement strikes me: over 11,500 people in Canada have lost their lives as a result of opioid-related overdoses between January 2016 and December 2018 and we keep losing people every day. So many lives lost! And why is that? The evidence is clear that overdose prevention sites save lives! After I returned from a hands-on training in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, one of the hardest hit places in the overdose crisis, it became even...
“Chasing the new is dangerous to society.” I read this quote at an activist art exhibition and it got me thinking about Halifax, my city, and of the group that I belong to. What if the old way of healthcare is actually dangerous to society at a whole?
Nous sommes au cœur d’une période incroyablement dynamique dans le monde de la médecine et de la santé publique. La recherche dans le domaine de l’hépatite C a progressé si rapidement que le virus pourrait être éliminé comme menace pour la santé publique seulement 40 ans après sa découverte en 1989.
Why do First Nations, Métis and Inuit in Canada carry such an unfair burden of hepatitis C in Canada? It is estimated that hepatitis C among Indigenous people is five-times higher than non-Indigenous Canadians. In particular, Indigenous women represent almost half of all hepatitis C cases in their communities, a much higher proportion than among the non-Indigenous Canadian population. Young Indigenous people (24 years and under) represent 70% to 80% of hepatitis C infections among people who inject drugs in Canada.
Imaginez que 11 Canadiens soient empoisonnés chaque jour et que le taux de décès ne cesse de grimper chaque année. Imaginez que des hôpitaux partout au pays fassent face à une augmentation de 27 % des admissions pour traiter ces empoisonnements, et que les visites aux urgences grimpent de 73 % en Ontario seulement.
