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Restore Funding to HIV Groups: Crisis Looming April 1

Posted by Mark Janssen
| Date: February 27, 2018

Restore Funding to HIV Groups: Crisis Looming April 1

Member of Parliament, Don Davies says "HIV Groups and Organizations are facing closure or serious reducti ...

Member of Parliament, Don Davies says "HIV Groups and Organizations are facing closure or serious reduction in service delivery on April 1, 2018”. In a joint news conference with Positive Living BC, M ...

February 27, 2018
| by Mark Janssen

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What Happens When LGBT People Are Priced Out of the Neighborhood?

Posted by Rick Hurlbut
| Date: September 02, 2016

What Happens When LGBT People Are Priced Out of the Neighborhood?

Note: Like Vancouver, American cities, including San Francisco and Philadelphia, are seeing the LGBT comm ...

Note: Like Vancouver, American cities, including San Francisco and Philadelphia, are seeing the LGBT community displaced from traditional neighbourhoods by high rents and housing prices - especially s ...

September 02, 2016
| by Rick Hurlbut

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‘That’s criminal to me’: How Canada is failing to end HIV/AIDS at home

Posted by Rick Hurlbut
| Date: August 22, 2016

‘That’s criminal to me’: How Canada is failing to end HIV/AIDS at home

Stigma remains a major problem that discourages people from getting tested Two studies released last mont ...

Stigma remains a major problem that discourages people from getting tested Two studies released last month show the tools exist to potentially end the more than three-decades-old scourge of HIV/AIDS, ...

August 22, 2016
| by Rick Hurlbut

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Health Canada reduces blood donation wait period for men who have sex with men to one year

Posted by Rick Hurlbut
| Date: June 21, 2016

Health Canada reduces blood donation wait period for men who have sex with men to one year

Health Canada announced today (June 20) that Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec are authorized to re ...

Health Canada announced today (June 20) that Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec are authorized to reduce the deferral period for blood donations for men who have sex with men (MSM) from five year ...

June 21, 2016
| by Rick Hurlbut

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Insurer stops covering HIV prevention drug

Posted by Rick Hurlbut
| Date: May 08, 2016

Insurer stops covering HIV prevention drug

Health insurer Pacific Blue Cross is no longer covering a controversial medication that can prevent the s ...

Health insurer Pacific Blue Cross is no longer covering a controversial medication that can prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. Letters went out in late April to fewer than 10 peo ...

May 08, 2016
| by Rick Hurlbut

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Saskatchewan HIV rates: ‘We’re going to be facing a catastrophe’

Posted by Rick Hurlbut
| Date: April 08, 2016

Saskatchewan HIV rates: ‘We’re going to be facing a catastrophe’

Saskatchewan has a health crisis on its hands. The province continues to have the highest rates of HIV in ...

Saskatchewan has a health crisis on its hands. The province continues to have the highest rates of HIV in the country at twice the national average and experts say 70 per cent of new cases are among F ...

April 08, 2016
| by Rick Hurlbut

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