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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
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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
Background
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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Evidence review: online interventions hold promise for addressing STBBI among young gay, bisexual and other MSM
Nov 22, 2017 by Rod Knight, Research Scientist, BC Centre on Substance Use
Background
Policy makers and intervention strategists are increasingly aware that the Internet provides opportunities to meet young people “where they are at.” For example, young gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with...
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Estimating the size of the population of men who have sex with men in Metro Vancouver
Oct 5, 2017 by Ashleigh Rich, PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia School of Population & Public Health; BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Background
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV across Canada, provincially in British Columbia (BC) and locally in Vancouver.
In BC, MSM make up about half of new HIV infections as well...
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