- HIV self-testing is a testing option that was licensed for use in Canada in November 2020. HIV self-testing can supplement other testing approaches, to help to reach the undiagnosed. To maximize the…
- Prevention in FocusIntimate relationships can contribute to both vulnerability and resiliency to hepatitis C and HIV for women who inject drugs. We explore the issues and provide suggestions to help front-line workers…
- Prevention in FocusSex workers experience a disproportionately high burden of HIV in Canada and globally, partly due to continued criminalization. This article looks at some of the approaches in Canada and globally…
- Programming ConnectionThe Victoria SAFER Initiative provides pharmaceutical alternatives to the unregulated drug supply.
- CATIE NewsCanada signed on to international goals to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health issue by 2030. With current testing and treatment rates, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec will not meet this goal.…
- Publication highlighting prevention research evidence and demonstrating how research findings can be integrated into the planning and provision of effective programs and services.
- CATIE NewsResearchers studied survival of Canadians co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Cirrhosis-related deaths began to decline in 2013 with new hepatitis C ...
- Prevention in FocusCreating comprehensive programs and services, based on clients’ needs, is one way to ensure that HIV, hepatitis C and STI programs offer the best combination of interventions to most effectively…
- A brief, group intervention reduces HIV and STI sexual risk practices among queer women.
- Clinical trials are scientific tests of new drugs or treatments on people. They are designed to find out if new drugs are safe and how well they work.
- Universal precautions are an approach to help prevent transmission of blood-borne pathogens like hepatitis C and HIV. It is an approach in which all human blood and certain body fluids are treated as…