[DOWNLOAD] "Developing Canada's Research Base for Harm Reduction and Health Equity Approaches to HIV Prevention and Treatment (Canadian MILESTONE IN POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH Research) (Report)" by Canadian Journal of Public Health # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Developing Canada's Research Base for Harm Reduction and Health Equity Approaches to HIV Prevention and Treatment (Canadian MILESTONE IN POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH Research) (Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 303 KB
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In the area of infectious disease control, Canadian research efforts to address the HIV epidemic in Vancouver's Downtown East Side neighbourhood have fueled the development and advancement of harm reduction and health equity perspectives worldwide. These research efforts have, in turn, reshaped the field of public health approaches to HIV prevention and treatment. As a result of the intensive and sustained research initiatives led by two young Canadian scientists working at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), Drs. Thomas Kerr and Evan Wood, the 'HIV problem' and public health responses to it have been radically reconceptualized--shifting from an exclusive focus on individual choice towards asking fundamental questions about our society and the structural factors that put people at risk for contracting HIV. Methodological advances made at the BC-CfE have been instrumental in this area, including the launch of multiple studies involving highly vulnerable individuals (e.g., people who inject drugs, sex workers, people who are HIV-positive, street-engaged youth, etc.), as well as the use of innovative ethnoepidemiological techniques to illuminate for policy-makers as well as front-line public health practitioners the links between context, structure and individual health outcomes. More specifically, their research on harm reduction and health equity related to HIV vulnerability and outcomes has informed and shaped: 1) the establishment of North America's first supervised injection facility, Insite, located in Vancouver's Downtown East Side neighbourhood; 2) dramatic changes to Vancouver's needle exchange policies; 3) treatment approaches for HIV-seropositive individuals who use injection drugs (IDU).