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Canadian study to address barriers to HIV and hepatitis care among drug users

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 22nd, 2006

More than $750K will go to a new study addressing barriers to injection drug users (IDUs) accessing essential HIV or hepatitis C medical care, the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS formally announced.

The five-year study is funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The funding announcement follows a recent grant from the U.S. Department of Health to monitor the rise of drug-resistant HIV among users of crystal methamphetamine in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

In B.C., all anti-HIV medications are distributed at no cost to eligible HIV-infected individuals through the Center's Drug Treatment Program. In 2003, the Centre...

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