Crack users need 'push sticks'
Nanaimo Daily News,  Canada - 16 minutes ago
Harm reduction service providers in Vancouver estimated that one in five syringes distributed may be used for the plunger only. The committee examined the ...

Making bundles of joy of the lost, rejected
Vancouver Sun,  Canada - 14 hours ago
Last summer, at the age of 75, Kate Cock left her snug Vancouver apartment for her first trip to Africa. "I got off the plane, and first thing I saw was two ...

City needs safe-injection site, says advocate for addicts
TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 18 hours ago
Such sites offer a place where addicts can shoot up with clean needles under supervision, decreasing the spread of blood-borne diseases like HIV and ...
Crack users need 'push sticks' Nanaimo Daily News
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City needs safe-injection site, says advocate for addicts
TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 7 hours ago
By JEFFREY SIMPSON Staff Reporter Halifax would benefit from having a safe-injection site for drug users like the one in Vancouver, says the director of a ...

Xtra West
New group dedicated to gay men's health
Xtra West, Canada - 20 hours ago
"It's moving from looking at HIV/AIDS prevention and education work as an isolated piece," says David Swan, executive director of AIDS Vancouver, ...

Xtra West
New group dedicated to gay men's health
Xtra West, Canada - 23 hours ago
"It's moving from looking at HIV/AIDS prevention and education work as an isolated piece," says David Swan, executive director of AIDS Vancouver, ...
AIDS patients leery of processed meats CTV British Columbia
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CTV British Columbia
AIDS patients leery of processed meats
CTV British Columbia, Canada - 23 hours ago
AIDS Vancouver stocks groceries to give away to people with HIV and AIDS, a disease which cripples the body's immune system. But even before the Canada-wide ...

'The time is coming'
TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 12 hours ago
By JEFFREY SIMPSON Staff Reporter Halifax would benefit from having a safe-injection site for drug users like the one operating in Vancouver, the director ...

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Tegan and Sara
Artistdirect.com, CA - 27 Aug 2008
It's an organization that basically works to get people with HIV and AIDS appropriate housing. We've worked with a lot of different charities in our time. ...

BC hospitals, care facilities ignored warnings
National Post, Canada - 27 Aug 2008
Health Canada warns that pregnant women, elderly people, and those with immune systems weakened from cancer, HIV, AIDS, diabetes or alcoholism are at ...
National death toll climbs to 15 Times Colonist
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The Gazette (Montreal)
Hospitals, care facilities ignored listeria warnings for three years
The Province, Canada - 1 hour ago
Health Canada warns that pregnant women, elderly people and those with immune systems weakened from cancer, HIV, AIDS, diabetes or alcoholism are at ...
National death toll climbs to 15 Times Colonist
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Feds uncomfortable funding HIV/AIDS fight, activist says
TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 27 Aug 2008
The operators of Vancouver’s supervised injection facility, Insite, recently had to fight a legal battle to prevent the federal government from yanking ...

The Province
Hospitals, care facilities ignored listeria warnings for three years
The Province, Canada - 3 hours ago
Health Canada warns that pregnant women, elderly people and those with immune systems weakened from cancer, HIV, AIDS, diabetes or alcoholism are at ...

Syphilis cases in region level off, Capital Health says
Fort Saskatchewan Record, Canada - 26 Aug 2008
The sexually transmitted disease (STD) was almost completely eradicated in Canada until it resurfaced among sex-trade workers in Vancouver in 1997. ...

Written by Keke Mullins
Play by Play, MO - 20 hours ago
Housing Works provides housing, healthcare, job training, and advocacy for New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. As an activist organization, it is committed to ...

Harm Reduction, '50s Style
TheTyee.ca, Canada - 25 Aug 2008
... to 200 in 1993 in Vancouver), and the health board's 1997 declaration of a public health emergency when it realized the city had the highest rate of HIV ...

More Letters
Edmonton Journal, Canada - 6 hours ago
High-risk users, identified as those at greatest risk for HIV infection and overdose, are able to access services that provide them with hope. ...

Treat druggies, don't coddle 'em
Edmonton Sun,  Canada - 25 Aug 2008
The flyers sent out by Conservative MPs, especially in Toronto and Vancouver, illustrate Mr. Clement and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's intentions to save ...

The Province
Needles offer refugees some relief
The Province, Canada - 24 Aug 2008
A Vancouver acupuncturist has just arrived in Africa to stick needles into refugees traumatized by war. Emilie Salomons of Vancouver, who practices Chinese ...

Clement's bias embarrassing Canada at home and abroad
Times Colonist, Canada - 24 Aug 2008
By challenging the efficacy of safe injection sites, Clement tarnished Canada's image abroad and hampered efforts to contain the spread and impact of HIV ...