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Blog: March 2016
Clinician alert: Provincial increase in syphilis cases
Mar 31, 2016 by Troy Grennan, Medical Head, STI/HIV Control, Clinical Prevention Services, BCCDC
The rate of infectious syphilis in BC increased significantly from 11.9 per 100,000 in 2014, to 16.2 per 100,000 in 2015.
Like many jurisdictions, BC has observed an increase in infectious syphilis rates since 2010. However, this...
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Categories: Clinical tips
Becoming “undetectable”: a significant sexual and psychological milestone for many gay men after their HIV diagnosis
Mar 22, 2016 by Daniel Grace, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, by and Mark Gilbert, Director, Applied Epidemiology Unit, Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Background
In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on understanding the...
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Categories: New knowledge
Making the most of a new HIV testing technology
Mar 8, 2016 by Dr. Mark Gilbert, Director of the Applied Epidemiology Unit, Ontario HIV Treatment Network
There are a lot of new test technologies in the pipeline: both new types of tests in the works, such as rapid syphilis tests or point-of-care HIV viral load testing, and new ways to use existing tests, such as self-testing or online...
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Categories: New knowledge
