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[From Global News, February 15, 2019] “The B.C. Government has announced the new St. Paul’s Hospital will be built near the Vancouver train station for $1.9 billion and the doors will open in 2026. The previous government had announced the more than 125-year-old hospital was going to have to move from its current location on […]

[From Ricochet, February 5, 2019] “It’s difficult to imagine someone going to prison for something as personal as their HIV status, but that remains a real risk for people living with HIV in Canada. The past few years have seen important progress in addressing this unjust criminalization, but it is still too little, with a

[From Avert, January 30, 2019] “Unplanned pregnancy may be a common and persistent risk factor for poor antiretroviral treatment outcomes in South African women living with HIV. Women living with HIV in South Africa who did not plan to get pregnant were three times more likely to have an elevated viral load than women who

[From Medical Xpress, January 31, 2019] “As a raft of new treatments for HIV infection have come on the market in the past 20 years, AIDS patients got access to drugs that allowed them to live longer. “These drugs are miracles,” said Dr. Richard N. Greenberg, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Kentucky.

[From The Telegraph, January 25, 2019] “One of the world’s largest development funds risks “overstating” the number of lives it has saved and must improve transparency, experts have warned. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has an annual budget of roughly $4 billion, funds projects around the world to tackle these