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HIV—Pregnancy-related issues U.S. analysis of the safety of ART during pregnancy Good news about HIV drug safety from an even larger study Understanding the risks for hypospadias ART during pregnancy...
View ArticleCATIE Webinar – Sex Now: Canada’s largest survey of gay and bisexual men
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 @1:00pm Register Now! Featuring: Olivier Ferlatte, Research Education Director Community-Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health According to results from the Sex Now...
View ArticleCATIE’s Programming Connection Spotlights Programs in Rural and Remote Areas
Providing HIV and hepatitis C-related services in rural and remote communities may present its own set of challenges. Draw on the experience of organizations offering prevention, testing and treatment...
View ArticleCATIE: Prevention in Focus – Spotlight on programming and research
To get Prevention in Focus delivered straight to your inbox, click here. HIV prevention within serodiscordant couples: A changing paradigm Serodiscordant couples are often thought to be at “high risk”...
View ArticleCATIE Webinar: Rural HIV Prevention in Canada
Register now Thursday, February 19, 2015 @1:00 p.m. ET Do you plan or provide HIV prevention programs in a rural or remote area of Canada? This upcoming webinar introduces a new website created to...
View ArticleCATIE: Winter 2015 Positive Side newsletter
From the Front Lines: Meet the Bloggers A tour of the HIV blogosphere. Chatty CATIE: The Road to Undetectable 4 PHAs offer their perspectives on what it means to have an undetectable viral load....
View ArticleProgramming Connection Spotlights Prevention Programs for African, Caribbean...
African, Caribbean and Black populations in Canada are disproportionately affected by HIV. Culturally-specific programs that reach community members in non-traditional settings like barbershops and...
View ArticleCATIE’s HepCInfo Updates 6.2
New and Noteworthy Screening Canadians born between 1945 and 1965 could be cost effective According to a modelling study, one-time screening for people 25 to 64 or 45 to 64 years of age could be...
View ArticleCATIE – Visual AIDS: Wingspan with Claudette Cardinal
My name is Claudette Cardinal and I have been living with HIV for almost 20 years. Originally from Edmonton, I now live in West Vancouver. I am Cree. I am a grandmother six times over. In the spring of...
View ArticleCATIE’s HepCInfo Updates 6.3
New and Noteworthy Vertical transmission of hepatitis C estimated to occur in over 5% of births in women with hepatitis C According to a systematic review on vertical transmission of hepatitis C, the...
View ArticleCATIE Webinar: New HIV Testing Approaches
Register now Thursday, March 5, 2015 @ 1 p.m. ET Evidence suggests that between 87% and 97% of people will choose a rapid HIV test over a standard HIV test. CATIE’s Programming Connection has profiled...
View ArticleCATIE’s HepCinfo Update 6.4
New and Noteworthy P.E.I. announces their hepatitis C strategy Community-based program successful at linking people to Hep C testing and care P.E.I. announces their hepatitis C strategy P.E.I....
View ArticleCATIE Treatment Update 207
I HEPATITIS C VIRUS About some terms – SVR12 vs. SVR24 SVR linked to longer survival and other benefits Issues with emerging therapies for HCV Simeprevir + sofosbuvir – experience in the clinic...
View ArticleCATIE News – BC researchers examine past and future directions in the HIV...
Researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (CfE) in Vancouver have amassed extensive health-related data collected from HIV-positive people. These data have been stripped of...
View ArticleANKORS/PWN/CATIE’s Educational Day for Frontline Service Providers
ANKORS, Positive Womens’ Network and CATIE invite you to attend an Educational Day for Frontline Service Providers working with people living with HIV and/or Hep C. Date: Wednesday March 25, 2015 Time:...
View ArticleCATIE’s Programming Connection Spotlights Point-of-Care HIV Testing
Testing is the first and most crucial step in the HIV treatment cascade. Rapid point-of-care HIV testing allows people to test and learn their HIV status during the same visit. A review of the evidence...
View ArticleCATIE Strategic Planning Survey: Your insights requested
CATIE is developing its new strategic plan for the next three years, and to help us in that task, we would love to hear your thoughts on CATIE’s role and how it might evolve. Please take a few minutes...
View ArticleCATIE News – Canadian HCV guidelines updated for 2015
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects the liver and, if left untreated, eventually causes serious injury to this vital organ, leading to complications, liver failure and, in some cases, liver cancer. In the...
View ArticleCATIE’s HepC Info Update 6.5
New and Noteworthy Holkira Pak cures 94% of people co-infected with Hep C and HIV High cure rates for Harvoni in people co-infected with HIV and Hep C Hep C testing program in an emergency department...
View ArticleCATIE News – Survival after surgery with HIV
In Canada and other high-income countries, the widespread availability of potent combination anti-HIV therapy (commonly called ART or HAART) has had a tremendous impact on the health of HIV-positive...
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