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What are the mental health-related needs of bisexual people?
Jun 13, 2018 by Travis Salway, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UBC School of Population and Public Health and BC Centre for Disease Control, by and Lori Ross, Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Background
Much of what we know about the health of sexual minorities (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, two-spirit (LGBQ2), and other non-heterosexual groups) fails to account for meaningful differences within sexual minority...
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Treatment, Peers and More! Hep C Resources in BC Report available now
May 9, 2018 by Madeline Gallard, Project Coordinator, Pacific Hepatitis C Network
The Hep C in BC Resources Project
Pacific Hepatitis C Network (PHCN) is happy to report that our Hep C in BC Resources project has drawn to a successful close. This project ran from last fall to the end of March 2018.
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“I’ve literally never heard of dental dams”: STI knowledge among lesbian and bisexual teenage girls
Apr 18, 2018 by Dr. Jennifer Wolowic, Managing Director of Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, UBC School of Nursing
Research
The Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre at the UBC School of Nursing collaborated with the Centre of Innovative Health in the United States to...
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PrEP-Stigma: What can we learn from Toronto’s ‘first wave’ of PrEP users?
Apr 4, 2018 by Dr. Daniel Grace, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, by and Dr. Darrell H.S. Tan, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
Background
While barriers to access remain, PrEP is becoming increasingly available across Canada. We set out to learn from the experiences of gay men in Toronto who were part of the ‘first wave’ of PrEP users in Canada.
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Syndemic service integration: Are sexual health clinics appropriate settings for addressing clients’ unmet mental health care needs?
Feb 14, 2018 by Travis Salway, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UBC School of Population and Public Health, BC Centre for Disease Control
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Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI), and mental health and substance misuse problems co-occur at elevated rates in particular socially-marginalized sub-populations (e.g., sexual and gender...
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