The Ubyssey
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issued: 2005-11-22
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note: vT-7... v "• MANITOBA IS DEAD Long live the Caribou. Page 12 TALKING GUITARS Michael Strutt spills his guts. Page 6-7 A DINGO ATE MY BALLOT Your vote is important to us. Page 6 IP WW fflLW-& mm"" ■t www.ubyssey.bc.ca Vol.LXXXVII N°21 Tuesday, 22 November, 2005 Shou ai wo with a finger of Hennessy since 1918 Rapid HIV test breaks ground in Canada Quick diagnosis nets mixed reaction by Katherine Scarrow NEWSWRITER It now takes longer to boil a kettle of water than to test for HIV. Health Canada recently announced its approval of the INSTI™ HIV-1 Antibody Test Kit, the first rapid test kit for point-of- care in Canada. Developed by BC- based bioLytical Laboratories, the test is completed in less than 60 seconds and has a 99.6 per cent accuracy rate. In 2002, Health Canada reported 56,000 people are Hving in Canada with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1), the retrovirus that causes AIDS. According to estimates, approximately two thousand of those infected with the virus reside in Vancouver's Downtown East Side (DTES). "The HIV situation within the DTES is probably among the worst in North America in terms of the number and proportion of people infected," said Mark TyndaH, program director for epidemiology at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and a member of bioLytical's scientific advisory board. There is no shortage of testing faciHties in Vancouver and most people do eventually get tested. But whether they foUow-up with test results is often the problem, TyndaH explained. An alarming 30 per cent of aU people who test for HIV do not come back or do not wait for their results. According to Health Canada, this means that 17,000 people in Canada are infected and do not know it. The INSTI-kit would aHow people to be tested quickly and to find out their results immediately. Diving for it The UBC women's volleyball team took on theTrinity Western University Spartans last weekend. Friday night's final score was 3-0 for theT-Birds. Saturday night saw another win of 3…
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