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BC-CfE brings innovative stimulant use disorder treatment to Downtown Eastside

April 30, 2022 | BC-CfE

BOOST continues to improve lives for those living with opioid use disorder

March 31, 2022 | BC-CfE

Hope to Health’s holistic approach improving lives in the Downtown Eastside

February 28, 2022 | BC-CfE

Since opening in late 2019, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS’ (BC-CfE) Hope to Health Research and Innovation Complex (H2H) has offered comprehensive health care to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. For H2H clients, holistic means a team of healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, social workers, and peer research associates, will help with not only medical care, but also in providing psychosocial supports. This can include helping clients find stable housing, income and social support, and providing behavioural interventions, like educating clients in safer substance use.

BC’s success story shows strength of Treatment as Prevention

December 22, 2021 | BC-CfE

On December 1st we celebrate World AIDS Day, an opportunity to reflect on our challenges and successes four decades into the battle against HIV/AIDS. Around the world there are nearly 38 million people living with HIV and about 1.5 million new infections per year. A recent report by the World Health Organization estimates the number of people with the virus being treated with antiretrovirals had risen to 27.5 million – an increase of almost 10% over the last year. Encouraging but not enough.

Minister’s statement recognizing World AIDS Day

December 1, 2021 | BC Gov News

Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, has issued the following statement in recognition of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 2021: “Today, on World AIDS Day, and during Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week, we show our solidarity with people living with HIV and AIDS here in British Columbia. We mourn those we have lost and we celebrate their lives. We also renew our commitment to supporting those who live with HIV, and to ending this epidemic and the stigma that surrounds it.

Collaborative study examines COVID-19 vaccine immune responses in people living with HIV

November 23, 2021 | BC-CfE

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS researchers, collaborating with counterparts at Simon Fraser University, the University of BC, Providence Health Care and the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) recently published a study looking at COVID-19 vaccine immune responses in people living with HIV (PLWH).

Improving patient engagement and retention in healthcare at Hope to Health

October 20, 2021 | BC-CfE

A BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) research team is working to evaluate how a new primary care clinic can keep clients engaged in health care among residents of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES).

BC-CfE updates its Primary Care Guidelines

September 20, 2021 | BC-CfE

The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) created the first edition of its Primary Care Guidelines for the Management of HIV/AIDS in Adults in British Columbia back in 2011. Now, 10 years later, thanks to the diligent work of the Primary Care Guidelines Working Group (a working group appointed by the Committee for Drug Evaluation and Therapy), the most recently updated version of the guidelines is now available for health care providers throughout the province to become more actively involved in the diagnosis and care of people living with HIV (PLWH).

BC-CfE researchers attend world’s most influential meeting on HIV research

August 13, 2021 | BC-CfE

The 11th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science took place from July 18th to the 21st and BC-CfE researchers attending the virtual conference used the opportunity to present their latest findings.

BC-CfE marks World Hepatitis Day

July 28, 2021 | BC-CfE

Today, July 28th, is World Hepatitis Day, a day to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and also to influence meaningful change in delivering care to those living with the virus. The theme this year is ‘Hepatitis Can’t Wait’.

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