Barker, Brittany
Adams, Evan
Wood, Evan
Kerr, Thomas
DeBeck, Kora
Dong, Huiru
Shoveller, Jean
Montaner, Julio
Milloy, M.-J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3821-6221
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (U01-DA021525)
Article History
First Online: 29 September 2018
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: Dr. Milloy is supported in part by the US National Institutes of Health (U01-DA021525), a Scholar award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), and a New Investigator award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Milloy and his institution have received an unstructured gift from NG Biomed, Ltd., a private firm seeking a license from the Canadian government to produce medical cannabis, to support him. This work was supported in part by a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Inner-City Medicine awarded to Dr. Wood. Dr. Montaner is supported by the British Columbia Ministry of Health and through an Avant-Garde Award (No. 1DP1DA026182) from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has also received financial support from the International AIDS Society, United Nations AIDS Program, World Health Organization, NIH Office of AIDS Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPfAR), UNICEF, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. Dr. Kora DeBeck is supported by a MSFHR/St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation-Providence Health Care Career Scholar Award and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award. Brittany Barker is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Award. The funders had no role in the design and conduct of this study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the University of British Columbia and Providence Health Care research ethics board, the Tri-Council policy statement for research involving human participants, as well as the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.