title: From West End to Eastside: The Vancouver HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 1983-2013.
abstract: Traditional histories of AIDS have used a few major American urban centres as proxies for the North American epidemic more broadly and have tended to frame the epidemic as a quintessentially gay and American experience. A careful examination of how the epidemic unfolded in Vancouver, British Columbia, however, reveals considerable differences, including the relative absence of local gay activist traditions prior to HIV/AIDS and the relative prominence of interventions such as Insite, North America's first sanctioned needle exchange program and safe injection site. An investigation of such differences emphasizes the local character of the epidemic and adds a Canadian perspective to the existing AIDS historiography.
authors.forename: Taylor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000821:virology; D001955:British Columbia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003469:Culture; D058872:Epidemics / Q000266:history*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000821:virology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D018671:Needle-Exchange Programs / Q000266:history; D011057:Politics