| CAHR Abstracts 2002 |
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
/ ÉPIDÉMIOLOGIE ET SANTÉ PUBLIQUE
ORAL PRESENTATIONS / PRÉSENTATIONS ORALES
INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE HIV TRANSMISSION
[323] REDUCTION IN HIV RISK BEHAVIOURS SIX MONTHS
AFTER ENROLMENT IN LOW THRESHOLD METHADONE PROGRAMS
Peggy Millson1,6, Laurel Challacombe1, Carol Strike1,2,
Paul Villeneuve3, Ted Myers1,6, Benedikt Fischer2,6,
Ron Shore4,7, Shaun Hopkins5,8, Mary Pearson4,9,
Sara Raftis1
1HIV Social, Behavioural & Epidemiological Studies Unit, University
of Toronto; 2Center for Addiction and Mental Health; 3University
of Ottawa; 4Street Health, Kingston, Ontario; 5The Works,
Toronto; 6Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto;
7KFL&A Health Unit, Kingston, Ontario; 8Toronto Department
of Public Health; 9Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
[324] SOURCES OF NEW AND USED NEEDLES DRIVE HIV
INCIDENCE AMONG INJECTION DRUG USERS IN OTTAWA
Lynne E Leonard*, Christine Navarro**, Nick Birkett*
*Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Ottawa; **Community Health Research Unit, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
[325] THE ROLE OF SECONDARY NEEDLE EXCHANGE: POLICY
AND PRACTICE IN TWO CANADIAN CITIES
Mark W Tyndall1, J Bruneau2, S Brogley2,
P Spittal1, MV O’Shaughnessy1, MT Schechter1
1BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia;
2Research Centre, Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal,
Montreal, Quebec
[326] PLANNING FOR A SIF MEDICAL RESEARCH PROJECT:
WILLINGNESS OF PUBLICLY INJECTING DRUG USERS (IDU) TO USE SUPERVISED INJECTING
FACILITIES (SIF) IN MONTREAL
Traci Craig Green1, Catherine Hankins1,2,3,
Darlene Palmer2, Jean-Francois Boivin1, Robert Platt1
1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University,
Montréal; 2Montreal Regional Public Health Department; 3Institut
national de santé publique du Québec, Montréal, Québec
[327] REDUCTIONS IN RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR WITH
CASUAL PARTNERS FOLLOWING HIV-POSITIVE DIAGNOSIS AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH
MEN (MSM): RESULTS FROM THE POLARIS HIV SEROCONVERSION STUDY
A Burchell1, L Calzavara1,2, RS Remis1,2,
C Major3, P Corey2, T Myers1,2, P Millson1,2,
E Wallace3, Polaris Study Team
1HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Faculty
of Medicine, University of Toronto; 2Department of Public Health
Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; 3Ontario Ministry
of Health and Long Term Care
[328] ARE WE CLOSE TO ELIMINATION OF PERINATAL
HIV INFECTION IN CANADA?
SM King1, N Lapointe2, J Forbes3, L Samson4,
W Vaundry5, J Singer6, SE Read1, Canadian Pediatric
AIDS Research Group (CPARG)
1The Hospital for Sick Children; 6Canadian HIV Trials
Network and the Universities 1of Toronto; 2de Montreal;
3of British Columbia; 4of Ottawa; 5of Alberta;
6of Manitoba