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January 13, 2017
NEW FROM NCCID

PROCEEDINGS
The Two Faces of Syphilis: A Call for Sustained, National and Coordinated Responses to Syphilis

Syphilis has re-emerged in Canada during the last decade with epidemics now rooted in both urban and rural settings. While gay men are still at the centre of the urban epidemics, there is now a transition in the epidemiological pattern with increasing numbers of cases identified among northern heterosexual Indigenous men and women with the reappearance of congenital syphilis cases. To support responses to syphilis, NCCID, in partnership with the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH) and the Urban Public Health Network (UPHN), hosted a knowledge exchange forum in Montreal, November 22-23 2016. This forum brought together 42 public health specialists from across Canada. Practitioners, program coordinators, epidemiologists, researchers, policy makers, community-based partners and knowledge brokers gathered to share on ways to improve public health interventions on syphilis in Canada.

WEBINAR
Public Health Ethics: A Case in Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
 
January 24, 2017 @ 3 pm ET // In this webinar, co-presented by NCCHPP and NCCID, participants will discuss the evidence and ethics of a case involving the use of point-of-care testing to expand access to diagnostic technologies for infectious disease in remote or northern communities. // REGISTER
 
 
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SUMMARY
Measuring Canada's Progress on the 90-90-90 HIV Targets

From healthycanadians.gc.ca: "The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization have established global targets that will generate momentum towards the elimination of AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 ... including the 90-90-90 targets that, by 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV know their status, 90% of those diagnosed receive antiretroviral treatment, and 90% of those on treatment achieve viral suppression. ... This report provides an update on Canada's progress." The Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) also offers this overview.

INDICATORS
New PAN Evaluation Indicators Resource for Community-Based HIV and HCV Organizations

From Pacific AIDS Network: "This tool outlines a series of indicators that can be used to measure the contribution community-based HIV/HCV organizations are making to the prevention and care cascade in their region. It is hoped that the uptake and use of a common set of indicators across the sector will improve our ability to compare the relative effectiveness of different programs and services to make more informed choices, and improve learning from organizations’ most successful practices. [It] will also be a useful tool for organizations or health authorities who are working on developing individualized evaluation plans for their work."

ARTICLE
'Report Reveals Long-Standing Anti-Black Bias in Canadian HIV Criminalization Reporting'

From TheBODY.com: "Racial bias and misinformation run rampant in HIV criminalization reporting, a Canadian research team recently found, and the key to countering these dangerous media trends lies within the communities most impacted by them."

POST-EVENT REPORTS
Highlights: AIDS 2016 & HIVR4P

AIDS 2016 is the International AIDS Conference, while HIVR4P is "the world's first and only scientific meeting dedicated exclusively to biomedical HIV prevention research."
  • AIDS 2016: "Comparing TB Treatment Approaches in HIV Patients"; "PrEP Use Among Teens"; "Continued ART Reduces Postpartum Complications"; "Suppressing HIV Limits Transmission"; "HIV Self-Testing Among High-Risk Men" (Source: Physician's Weekly)
  • HIVR4P: Rapporteur summaries and event webcasts 

ROUNDUP
ICYMI 2016: In Case You Missed It

Content you may have missed in 2016:
  • Canadian and international recommendations on the frequency of HIV screening and testing: A systematic review (CCDR)
  • Impact of a social media campaign targeting MSM during an outbreak of syphilis in Winnipeg, Canada: Evaluation (CCDR)
  • Negligible Risk: Updated results from two studies continue to show that antiretroviral treatment and an undetectable viral load is a highly effective HIV prevention strategy (CATIE)
  • Are you prepped for PrEP?: Webinar addressing questions from both service providers and the communities they serve (CATIE)

2017 EVENTS
Upcoming events: CAHR 2017, World STI & HIV Congress
  • 26th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, April 6-9, 2017, Montreal: Event website
  • 2017 STI & HIV World Congress (joint meeting of ISSTDR and IUSTI), July 9-12, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Event website
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