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Margarite Sanchez margaritesanchez at gmail.com
Sat May 19 11:56:49 PDT 2012 

Hi all,
Please take note that there is information here for the University for
positive women.
Send in your applications.
Margarite

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   *POSITIVE LIVING BC news*

   - Community Forum: HIV & the Brain
   - Sleep Workshop
   - Positive Women's University

*BC HIV news*

   - Elimination of TaxiSaver programme
   - Supportive housing offers sex workers safety: study
   - B.C. foster mom has Hepatitis C lawsuit dismissed
   - Invasive and ineffective: BC's first-responder bill denounced
   - Fraser Health urges Abbotsford to get rid of harm-reduction bylaw

*Canada HIV news*

   - Changes go hand-in-hand with reforms
   - Canadian cohort shows viral suppression most likely with
   atazanavir/ritonavir-based HIV treatment after 6 months

*International HIV news*

   - Advocates: HIV prevention pill could save lives
   - President Obama's Support of Same-Sex Marriage Marks an Important Step
   in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
   - Facebook Ads Drive DKT's Safe Sex Message
   - Panic rises in Greece as 25 prostitutes test positive for HIV

  Community Forum: HIV & the Brain

Join Positive Living BC for a free Community Forum about the relationship
between HIV and the brain!

Presenters:

   - Maggie Atkinson BA, LLB, LSM, O. Ont
   - Sean B. Rourke PhD, Scientific & Executive Director, Ontario HIV
   Treatment Network Director, CIHR Centre for REACH in HIV/AIDS & University
   Without Walls, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

RSVP by May 18 to
Jen MacPherson  jenm at positivelivingbc.org <jenm at positivelivingbc.org%20>
or 604.893.2239

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/community-forum-hiv-brain>
 Sleep Workshop

Join us for a workshop discussing common reasons why you may be feeling
fatigued and exploring simple ways to improve quality of sleep.

Presenter:

   - David Evans, Founder of Sleep Student

RSVP by June 4 to Jen Macpherson

jenm at positivelivingbc.org
or 604.893.2239

Read more <http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/sleep-workshop>
 Positive Women's University

Positive Living BC presents a unique retreat-style "university"  where
instructors are also participants.  Learn, teach, connect, rejuvenate with
other HIV+ women.

It will be held at Loon Lake Camp, Maple Ridge BC, from October 19-21, 2012.

To submit an application and workshop proposal please visit
www.positivelivingbc.org/womens-university  For more information contact
support at positivelivingbc.org or call 604.893.2200.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/positive-womens-university>
 Elimination of TaxiSaver programme

TransLink has decided to eliminate the TaxiSaver program, which allows
seniors and people with disabilities to have same-day transportation
service at an affordable cost.  The elimination will be phased in over
several months, and new HandyDART users will not be able to purchase
TaxiSavers after August 1.

Here is more information about what has happened.  Please pass this
information on to whoever you think might be interested.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/elimination-taxisaver-programme>
 Supportive housing offers sex workers safety: study

*Female sex workers living in and operating from supportive-housing units
have less adversarial relations with police, says a new study. *

The study was published Wednesday in the "American Journal of Public
Health" and was authored by researchers from the University of B.C. and the
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV-AIDS.

Based on interviews with 39 women living on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside,
the study also found female sex workers living in the housing units were
exposed to less violence and disease, such as HIV.

The study was released just a month after Ontario's top court struck down a
ban on bawdy houses.

It also comes amid the inquiry into serial killer Robert Pickton, which has
heard the poor relationship between sex workers and police makes them
reluctant to report abuse.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/supportive-housing-offers-sex-workers-safety-study>
 B.C. foster mom has Hepatitis C lawsuit dismissed

The B.C. Court of Appeal has thrown out the case of a former foster parent
suing the government after being allegedly infected with Hepatitis C by a
drugged-up teen client.

Teresita Iezzi claims the government failed to warn her that the teen, who
accidentally stabbed her in 2001 with a needle while the teen was shooting
up heroin, had the sometimes-fatal liver disease.

The government tried to have the case tossed out on the grounds that she
had not filed the suit within the two-year time limitation, but a B.C.
Supreme Court judge dismissed that argument.

The government appealed the Supreme Court decision and in a ruling released
Thursday, that appeal was upheld and Iezzi’s action was dismissed.

Iezzi was diagnosed with the disease in 2002 and underwent chemotherapy for
nine months in 2003. She did not connect the infection with the needle
incident until one day in 2003 when she saw the teen on the street.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/bc-foster-mom-has-hepatitis-c-lawsuit-dismissed>
 Invasive and ineffective: BC's first-responder bill denounced

Health and privacy rights advocates are lambasting a controversial bill
that would force blood tests on patients whose bodily fluids come in
contact with first responders.

HIV/AIDS groups, the BC Civil Liberties Association, the provincial privacy
commissioner and the provincial health officer say the bill, introduced
last week by BC Labour Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, is ineffective and
invasive.

“We think it’s a crude overreaction,” says Micheal Vonn, policy director
for the BC Civil Liberties Association. “It’s unjustified and unnecessary,
and it takes very, very cavalierly the legal and ethical doctrine of
informed consent.”

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/invasive-ineffective-bcs-first-responder-bill-denounced>
 Fraser Health urges Abbotsford to get rid of harm-reduction bylaw

Fraser Health is urging the City of Abbotsford to repeal its anti-harm
reduction bylaw to help fight the spread of infectious disease and decrease
mortality rates for drug users.

“We certainly think that the anti-harm reduction bylaw could be playing a
role in higher rates of hospitalization and incidence of disease in
Abbotsford,” public health director David Portesi said in an interview
Friday.

Abbotsford’s zoning bylaw was amended in 2005 to prohibit any individual or
organization — including Fraser Health, which oversees the provision of
health services in the region — from establishing harm-reduction facilities
like needle exchanges or injection sites in the area.

According to a fact sheet distributed by Fraser Health, Abbotsford’s
hepatitis C infection rate in 2010 was 64.4 per 100,000, compared to a 2009
rate of 54.9 in B.C. and 33.7 nationally.

Additionally, approximately 29 Abbotsford residents are admitted to
hospital for overdoses annually.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/fraser-health-urges-abbotsford-get-rid-harm-reduction-bylaw>
 Changes go hand-in-hand with reforms

Doctors serve their patients best when they focus their energy on treating
disease based on accurate diagnoses. Unfortunately, Professor Mark Tyndall
and some of his colleagues seem to prefer political grandstanding.

Contrary to Tyndall's overheated claims, there is no change in Interim
Federal Health coverage for treatments affecting public health and public
safety. Treatment, including prescription medications, will continue to be
provided to all asylum claimants for infectious diseases such as
tuberculosis and HIV, and for other medications necessary to protect public
health, such as anti-psychotic drugs.

Nor is there any change to primary care for the vast majority of asylum
claimants, who will continue to have access to the full range of basic
services that all Canadians receive through their provincial health-care
system, including treatment for chronic disease.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/changes-go-hand-hand-reforms>
 Canadian cohort shows viral suppression most likely with
atazanavir/ritonavir-based HIV treatment after 6 months
Atazanavir/ritonavir strongest among people with a history of injecting
drug use

Antiretroviral therapy based on the ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor
atazanavir (*Reyataz*) was more likely to achieve virological suppression
after six months than treatment containing the non-nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) efavirenz (*Sustiva*, also in the
combination pill *Atripla*) among people with HIV starting treatment in the
Canadian province of British Columbia, investigators report in the online
edition of *AIDS*.

The study also showed that people with a history of injecting drug use
(IDU) could achieve good virological outcomes at month six, most especially
with regimens containing atazanavir.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/canadian-cohort-shows-viral-suppression-most-likely-atazanavir-ritonavir-based-hiv-treat>
 Advocates: HIV prevention pill could save lives

CHICAGO (AP) — A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to
some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of
reach and too costly for many who need it.

Doctors, patients and advocates say that would change if the Food and Drug
Administration takes a landmark step and allows the pill, Truvada, to be
marketed for prevention. The drug has been used for some time as a
treatment for those already infected with the AIDS virus.

"This is a pretty radical step, but I think it's a necessary step," said
Dr. Lisa Sterman of San Francisco, who prescribes the drug for already
infected patients and those who are healthy but at risk of getting the
virus from their partners or through risky sex.

"We've come as far as we can with condom use and safe sex strategies,"
Sterman said.

A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration late Thursday
endorsed using Truvada as a preventive.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/advocates-hiv-prevention-pill-could-save-lives>
 President Obama's Support of Same-Sex Marriage Marks an Important Step in
the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

PR Newswire

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today President Obama
made history by declaring his support of same-sex marriage, becoming the
first sitting president to take such a position, and moving the nation
closer to creating the AIDS-free generation he so boldly envisions.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/president-obamas-support-same-sex-marriage-marks-important-step-fight-against-hiv-aids>
 Facebook Ads Drive DKT's Safe Sex Message

Where's the last place you had sex? That's one question in a list that DKT
International, a nonprofit organization promoting family planning and
HIV/AIDS prevention, asked in an online campaign running in Brazil. Google
AdWords and Facebook Ads drove traffic to a dedicated Web site where
consumers were asked numerous questions related to their sexual experience.

The online campaign ran for 45 days, ending April 15. It asked consumers to
post a description of their last sexual experience, location, partner
gender, and position. It also asked participants to reveal their favorite
type of condom. The DKT Condom Tester Program in Brazil that ran last year
resulted in the prevention of nearly 10 million infant deaths and about
250,000 unwanted pregnancies in 2011.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/facebook-ads-drive-dkts-safe-sex-message>
 Panic rises in Greece as 25 prostitutes test positive for HIV
The scandal of prostitutes testing positive for HIV continues to create
panic in Greece, as the number of women confirmed as HIV positive rises to
25.

The number of prostitutes testing positive for HIV continues to rise on a
daily basis as the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(KEELPNO) carries out tests to detect the condition. Greek authorities
continue to publish photographs
<http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/May/international_May145.xml&section=international>of
the infected women, whilst charging them with intentionally inflicting
gross bodily harm.

Read more<http://positivelivingbc.org/news/120515/panic-rises-greece-25-prostitutes-test-positive-hiv>



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*Published:  15 May 2012
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