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Battling prison disease
Ottawa Citizen
Similar courses are run at some Canadian prisons, but they are unique internationally, according to AIDS Vancouver Island. However, more than 60 prisons ...

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Four Seasons Magazine
Easy Access in Vancouver
Four Seasons Magazine
Whether using wheelchairs, white canes, seeing eye dogs or hearing aids, Vancouver leads the way in making the area a more livable place for people with ...

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Phillies prospect Gillies beating the odds
FOXNews
Gillies was born in Vancouver, BC, and grew up north of the city. He lives downtown but hasn't been able to witness the finest hour of the city he adores. ...

Increased Treatment of HIV-Positive Patients Associated With Decline in New ...
DG News
According to Julio Montaner, MD, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, the number of people receiving highly ...

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Injecting Drug Users Reap the Same Benefits of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy Than ...
DG News
In a study, Viviane Lima, PhD, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, and colleagues reviewed outcomes among 402 ...

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Battling prison disease
Victoria Times Colonist
... manager of harm-reduction services for AIDS Vancouver Island, who teaches the course with health promotions educator Sara Gifford. ...

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'09 no fun for hoteliers
Victoria Times Colonist
... including the Mustard Seed Street Church, Victoria Hospice Swimathon, AIDS Vancouver Island and the early days of the David Foster Foundation galas. ...

Battling prison disease
Canada.com
Similar courses are run at some Canadian prisons, but they are unique internationally, according to AIDS Vancouver Island. However, more than 60 prisons ...

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HIV outreach a good step
Victoria Times Colonist
AIDS Vancouver Island applauds the BC government's announcement last week of its investment in the ...

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Bay Today
Emergency shipment of condoms on its way to Vancouver Olymips
Bay Today
Toronto, ON - Thousands of condoms are racing across the country to meet the needs of the Vancouver Olympics. While Vancouver health officials ...

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'SafeGames2010' handing out condoms as part of safety kit
News1130
SafeGames BC is made up of local health agencies, including AIDS Vancouver. The kit also contains guidelines for safer drug use. ...

SafeGames 2010 Begins
PR Newswire (press release)
... PhD, FRCPC -University of British Columbia Providence Leadership Chair for Addiction Research DAVID SWAN, Executive Director, AIDS Vancouver DR. ...

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Battling prison disease
Victoria Times Colonist
... manager of harm-reduction services for AIDS Vancouver Island, who teaches the course with health promotions educator Sara Gifford. ...

BC's new HIV program a model for the world
The Province
"If the mathematical model is sound, we'd like to see the program expand internationally," David Swan, executive director of AIDS Vancouver, ...

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Unique BC program will seek out undiagnosed, untreated HIV sufferers
The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER, BC — BC is launching a unique program to help HIV patients before their disease progresses or spreads to others. Called Seek and Treat, ...

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Health centre nearly debt free
Victoria News
In November, AIDS Vancouver Island and Victoria Cool Aid Society sent out the call for a benefactor. The ask: $1 million in exchange for the naming rights ...

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JOHNSON STREET HEALTH CENTRE AIMS TO BE MORTGAGE FREE
C-FAX 1070
"WE'VE SEEN SOME REALLY GOOD INTEGRATION BETWEEN THE AIDS VANCOUVER ISLAND PROGRAM AND THE HEALTH CENTRE IN TERMS OF GETTING PEOPLE CONNECTED TO THE ...

Kustosz Muzeum Seksu zaprasza na wystawę prezerwatyw
TVN24
"Gumki: życie i historia kondomów" - tak nazywa się wystawa, którą otwarto w nowojorskim Muzeum Seksu. W programie wystawy m.in. historia kondomów, ...

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'09 no fun for hoteliers
Victoria Times Colonist
... including the Mustard Seed Street Church, Victoria Hospice Swimathon, AIDS Vancouver Island and the early days of the David Foster Foundation galas. ...

Ottawa loses appeal in supervised injection site case; site to remain open
Whistler Question
VANCOUVER, BC - Canada's attorney general and minister of health have lost their appeal of a court ruling on Vancouver's controversial supervised injection ...

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