November 2020

Dr. Julio Montaner profiled in BIV’s LifeSciences magazine

Business in Vancouver’sLifesciencesmagazine recently profiled BC-CfE Executive Director & Physician-in-Chief Dr. Julio Montaner. In the profile, the history of Dr. Montaner’s career is traced from his arrival in Vancouver from Argentina in the 1980s, to the creation of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), up to the global spread of the cost-saving strategy of Treatment as Prevention¨ (TasP¨) .

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BOOST and Coast Mental Health Collaboration Improves Lives of Those Living With OUD

More than 1,300 people have died from illicit drug poisoning in BC so far this year. Some months saw a death toll greater than double the same month the previous year, and June alone had 183 people die of an overdose. This was the highest monthly overdose related death toll in BC’s history.

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The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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