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Scientists back argument for change in HIV disclosure rules from man facing charges

September 8, 2017

A B.C. man facing a dozen charges of aggravated sexual assault for not disclosing his HIV status to people he had unprotected sex with doesn’t believe certain people living with the virus should be required to tell sexual partners.

Don’t criminalize people on HIV treatment

August 21, 2017

Globe and Mail

Dr. Julio Montaner is a UBC-Killam Professor of Medicine and the UBC-St. Paul's Hospital Foundation chair in AIDS Research. Dr. Kora DeBeck is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Public Policy and research scientist at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

To win the fight against AIDS, we must end the war on drugs

August 4, 2017

Maclean's

Opinion: Injection drugs remain a key driver of the global HIV epidemic—and to solve it, we have to reform drug criminalization

Study suggests drug criminalization undermining global HIV/AIDS efforts

May 18, 2017

The Health Pilot

The criminalization of drugs is a leading factor in the world’s HIV epidemic and a potential barrier to eradicating HIV/AIDS, say researchers who’ve undertaken a sweeping review of research on laws and policies prohibiting drug use. Assistant professor Kora DeBeck of SFU’s School of Public Policy, who is a research scientist with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, is co-lead of the study, published in The Lancet.

War on drugs ‘crippling’ overdose, HIV response: B.C. researcher

May 16, 2017

Metro News

Criminalizing drugs has hurt efforts to respond to the global HIV epidemic and other harms associated with addiction, according to a British Columbia researcher.

Making Drug Use a Crime Makes HIV Prevention, Treatment More Difficult

May 17, 2017

Pharmpro

The criminalization of drug use has a negative effect on efforts to prevent and treat people with HIV, suggests a review of published research conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of British Columbia.

Study suggests drug criminalization undermining global HIV efforts

May 16, 2017

SFU

Making drug use a crime makes HIV prevention, treatment more difficult

May 15, 2017

Science Daily

Systematic review finds overwhelming evidence supporting negative health effects related to the so-called 'War on Drugs'

New Study Suggests That The War On Drugs Is A Leading Factor In HIV/AIDS Deaths And Infection Among People Who Use Injection Drugs

May 16, 2017

Systematic review of research finds laws and policies prohibiting drug use have a central role in undermining global HIV/AIDS efforts among people who inject drugs

Roadblocks to treatment can trigger intravenous drug use in disadvantaged youth

January 6, 2017

Addictions Now

Researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS conducted a study that examined the relationship between initiation of intravenous drug use (IDU) and the inability to receive addiction therapy among street-involved youth in Canada.

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

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