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Addressing sexual health-related anxiety among sexual health service users
Feb 10, 2021 by Sarah Watt, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Anxiety and other mental health concerns are common among people accessing sexual health services, many of whom are not connected to mental health supports(1). A team of researchers from the BC Centre for Disease...
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HIV/STI risk calculators: What do online users want?
Jan 31, 2021 by Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia; Hsiu-Ju Chang, Research Manager, BC Centre for Disease Control
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Risk calculators for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) use responses to sociodemographic (e.g., age, sex, ethnicity, geographic location), health status, or behavioural questions to estimate a...
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Categories: New knowledge
Sex in the time of COVID-19: Preliminary results from a recent survey
Nov 16, 2020 by Aidan Ablona, BCCDC; Hsiu-Ju Chang, BCCDC; Daniel Grace, University of Toronto; Cathy Worthington, University of Victoria; Jason Wong, BCCDC; Gina Ogilvie, BCCDC; Mark Gilbert, BCCDC
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The Digital Sexual Health Initiative team conducted a survey to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people’s sex lives, their access to sexual health services,...
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Ending conversion therapy in Canada: Dialogue and report on sexual orientation & gender identity or expression change efforts
Feb 20, 2020 by Travis Salway, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Affiliated Researcher, BC Centre for Disease Control and Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity
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The Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, in collaboration with the Community-Based Research Centre,...
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Progress on the hepatitis C virus care cascade in BC, and gaps to reaching the 2030 elimination targets
Oct 30, 2019 by Sofia Bartlett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Prevention Services, BC Centre for Disease Control
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Globally, death and illness from hepatitis C are increasing despite new medications, which are called Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs), that cure over 95% of people treated. The World Health...
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