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Blog: April 2013
What is “Women-Centred Care”? Experiences and perspectives of women living with HIV.
Apr 25, 2013 by Allison Carter, BSc., MPH, CHIWOS Provincial Coordinator (BC)
Background
More and more women are living with HIV in Canada. This increasing proportion has evoked calls for women-centred services that are tailored to women's needs. In response, a team of researchers, clinicians,...
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Categories: New knowledge
A pilot study of text-message support for HIV-positive patients at the Oak Tree Clinic in Vancouver: WelTel HAART BC1
Apr 18, 2013 by Jasmina Memetovic, mHealth Research Assistant, Clinical Prevention Services, BCCDC, by Mia van der Kop, mHealth Research Epidemiologist, Clinical Prevention Services, BCCDC
Background
WelTel is a non-governmental organization committed to providing evidence-based, patient-centred mobile health...
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Categories: New knowledge
Special Feature Series: Trauma Informed Care, Part 2 – Defining Trauma
Apr 10, 2013 by Fiona Gold, Outreach Nurse, Clinical Prevention Services, BCCDC
I recently gave an HIV positive diagnosis to a woman in a correctional facility. She looked at me in disbelief and for a long moment she was gone, staring at the ceiling, no longer listening to what I had to say. She did not respond to...
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Categories: Current practice
Presentation: Innovative approaches for effective responses to HIV epidemics among men who have sex with men
Apr 5, 2013 by BCCDC
Please join the BC Centre for Disease Control for a special Grand Rounds on Monday, April 15 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM when guest speaker Dr. David Wilson will present "Innovative approaches for...
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Categories: Events and announcements
Journal Club: Post-treatment HIV-1 controllers with a long term virological remission after the interruption of early initiated antiretroviral therapy
Apr 4, 2013 by Natalie Taha, BHK, UBC MD 2013 Candidate
Article reviewed
Sáez-Cirión, A., Bacchus, C., Hocqueloux, L., Avettand-Fenoel, V., Girault, I., Lecuroux, C., and Rouzioux, C. (2013). Post-Treatment HIV-1 Controllers with a Long-Term Virological Remission after the...
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Categories: Journal club