B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Published Papers

Ongoing published research from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS continues to push forward understanding of the complexities of the disease - from improving treatment regimens and outcomes for HIV-positive individuals to highlighting strategies that may prevent transmission of the virus. This page includes links to the three most recently published Centre studies, as well as a search function allowing you to locate a study by keyword and/or year.

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Most Recent Papers:
Source: PubMed.com

Non-Injection Drug Use Patterns and History of Injection among Street Youth.

Hadland SE, Kerr T, Marshall BD, Small W, Lai C, Montaner JS, Wood E.

Eur Addict Res. 2010 Feb 3;16(2):91-98. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20130409 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

Ensuring sustainable antiretroviral provision during economic crises.

Mills EJ, Ford N, Nabiryo C, Cooper C, Montaner J.

AIDS. 2010 Jan 28;24(3):341-3. No abstract available. PMID: 20019576 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Social and structural barriers to housing among street-involved youth who use illicit drugs.

Krüsi A, Fast D, Small W, Wood E, Kerr T.

Health Soc Care Community. 2010 Jan 21. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20102394 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

Prospective, Randomized, Open Label Trial of Efavirenz vs Lopinavir/Ritonavir in HIV+ Treatment-Naive Subjects With CD4+<200 cell/mm3 in Mexico.

Sierra-Madero J, Villasis-Keever A, Méndez P, Mosqueda-Gómez JL, Torres-Escobar I, Gutiérrez-Escolano F, Juárez-Kasusky I, Magana-Aquino M, Ramos-Santos C, Pérez-Saleme L, Rangel-Frausto S, Antuna-Puente B, Soto-Ramírez LE, Lima V, Belaunzarán-Zamudio F, Crabtree-Ramírez B, Montaner J.

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20090545 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

Evaluating outcomes of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Africa.

Montaner JS, Lima VD, Williams BG.

Ann Intern Med. 2010 Jan 19;152(2):131-2; author reply 132-3. No abstract available. PMID: 20083834 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Viral adaptation to immune selection pressure by HLA class I-restricted CTL responses targeting epitopes in HIV frameshift sequences.

Berger CT, Carlson JM, Brumme CJ, Hartman KL, Brumme ZL, Henry LM, Rosato PC, Piechocka-Trocha A, Brockman MA, Harrigan PR, Heckerman D, Kaufmann DE, Brander C.

J Exp Med. 2010 Jan 18;207(1):61-75, S1-12. Epub 2010 Jan 11.PMID: 20065065 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Survival sex work involvement among street-involved youth who use drugs in a Canadian setting.

Chettiar J, Shannon K, Wood E, Zhang R, Kerr T.

J Public Health (Oxf). 2010 Jan 9. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20061578 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

Survival sex work involvement as a primary risk factor for hepatitis C virus acquisition in drug-using youths in a canadian setting.

Shannon K, Kerr T, Marshall B, Li K, Zhang R, Strathdee SA, Tyndall MW, Montaner JG, Wood E.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010 Jan;164(1):61-5.PMID: 20048243 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Improved virological outcomes in British Columbia concomitant with decreasing incidence of HIV type 1 drug resistance detection.

Gill VS, Lima VD, Zhang W, Wynhoven B, Yip B, Hogg RS, Montaner JS, Harrigan PR.

Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Jan 1;50(1):98-105.PMID: 19951169 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

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Could a United Nations organisation lead to a worsening of drug-related harms?

Wood E, Kerr T.

Drug Alcohol Rev. 2010 Jan;29(1):99-100. No abstract available. PMID: 20078689 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

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Safety and danger in downtown Vancouver: understandings of place among young people entrenched in an urban drug scene.

Fast D, Shoveller J, Shannon K, Kerr T.

Health Place. 2010 Jan;16(1):51-60. Epub 2009 Aug 21.PMID: 19733496 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

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Social and structural determinants of HAART access and adherence among injection drug users.

Krüsi A, Wood E, Montaner J, Kerr T.

Int J Drug Policy. 2010 Jan;21(1):4-9. Epub 2009 Sep 10.PMID: 19747811 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

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Incarceration experiences among a community-recruited sample of injection drug users in Bangkok, Thailand.

Hayashi K, Milloy MJ, Fairbairn N, Kaplan K, Suwannawong P, Lai C, Wood E, Kerr T.

BMC Public Health. 2009 Dec 30;9(1):492.PMID: 20042105 [PubMed - in process]Related articles Free article

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Cognitive factors and willingness to participate in an HIV vaccine trial among HIV-negative injection drug users.

Dhalla S, Poole G, Singer J, Patrick DM, Wood E, Kerr T.

Vaccine. 2009 Dec 29. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20044049 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

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Phylogenetic Analysis of Population-Based and Deep Sequencing Data to Identify Coevolving Sites in the nef Gene of HIV-1.

Poon AF, Swenson LC, Dong WW, Deng W, Kosakovsky Pond SL, Brumme ZL, Mullins JI, Richman DD, Harrigan PR, Frost SD.

Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Dec 2. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 19955476 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

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Infection with different hiv subtypes is associated with CD4 activation-associated dysfunction and apoptosis.

Bousheri S, Burke C, Ssewanyana I, Harrigan R, Martin J, Hunt P, Bangsberg DR, Cao H.

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009 Dec;52(5):548-52.PMID: 19838123 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

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Commentary on Vorobjov et al., "Comparison of injection drug users who obtain syringes from pharmacies and syringe exchange programs in Tallinn, Estonia".

Werb D, Wood E.

Harm Reduct J. 2009 Nov 27;6:33.PMID: 19943944 [PubMed]Related articles Free article

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Survival Sex Work and Increased HIV Risk Among Sexual Minority Street-Involved Youth.

Marshall BD, Shannon K, Kerr T, Zhang R, Wood E.

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009 Nov 18. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 19927006 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

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Trends in multidrug treatment failure and subsequent mortality among antiretroviral therapy-experienced patients with HIV infection in North America.

Deeks SG, Gange SJ, Kitahata MM, Saag MS, Justice AC, Hogg RS, Eron JJ, Brooks JT, Rourke SB, Gill MJ, Bosch RJ, Benson CA, Collier AC, Martin JN, Klein MB, Jacobson LP, Rodriguez B, Sterling TR, Kirk GD, Napravnik S, Rachlis AR, Calzavara LM, Horberg MA, Silverberg MJ, Gebo KA, Kushel MB, Goedert JJ, McKaig RG, Moore RD.

Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Nov 15;49(10):1582-90.PMID: 19845473 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

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Epidemiology of treatment failure: a focus on recent trends.

Hull MW, Lima VD, Hogg RS, Harrigan PR, Montaner JS.

Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2009 Nov;4(6):467-73.PMID: 20048712 [PubMed - in process]Related articlesSource: scirus.com

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