The objective of this study was to compare sociodemographic, drug, and sexual risk characteristics
between hepatitis C virus (HCV) baseline positive and negative young (13-24 years) …

Background: In 1997, we found a higher prevalence of HIV among female than among male
injection drug users in Vancouver. Factors associated with HIV incidence among women in …

Background: Because of established links between entrenched poverty and risk of HIV
infection, there have long been warnings that HIV/AIDS will disproportionately affect Aboriginal …

Within Canadian prisons HIV/AIDS is becoming more common among inmates. While injection
drug use in correctional facilities is documented to be a problem, qualitative research into …

Background Opioid addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease and remains a major public health
challenge. Despite important expansions of access to conventional treatments, there are …

Background Between 1883 and 1996, thousands of Indigenous children were apprehended
into Canada's Residential School System. Survivors and their descendants have testified to …

Indigenous leaders remain concerned that systemic oppression and culturally unsafe care
impede Indigenous peoples living with HIV from accessing health services that make up the …

Objectives: To compare sociodemographic, drug-related, and sexual risk variables between
young (13-24 years of age) and older (≥ 25 years of age) injection drug users (IDUs); and …

This study sought to compare the prevalence of, and relationship between, age at first
experience of sexual violence and HIV and other health risk behaviors in two populations of men …

Youth are important with respect to HIV/AIDS, not only because they are at risk of infection,
but it is during this period that many behaviour patterns are established that will affect their …