US Department of Health funds Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study
November 18, 2004
(Vancouver) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will provide more than $3 million over five years to support the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study (VIDUS) and fund a new youth-at-risk study, the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS announced today. The $612,000 annual grant, awarded by the department’s National Insti...
Centre’s case for safer-injection facility draws international attention
April 28, 2004
(Vancouver) – The over-reliance on conventional drug-enforcement strategies and the limitations of existing public-health programs underscores the need to evaluate the potential benefits of North America’s first medically supervised safer-injection facility (SIF), says the cover story of a leading international medical journal. The rese...
