Dr. Nance Cunningham was sure she was finished with university after getting her Master of Health Science degree. She worked in global health and civilian protection until she was met with one particular project on hepatitis C (HCV) case-finding and treatment, a project that would blossom into one of her passions. While HCV carries a
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Dr. Kiana Yazdani moved from Abadan, Iran to Canada in 2017 with the aspiration of pursuing her Master’s degree in Experimental Medicine at UBC. There she became familiar with administrative data, an introduction that completely drew her in upon realizing that the data told stories. Embedded in the data held thousands of individual stories that
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The 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) took place July 26-31st in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with the theme of Rethink. Rebuild. Rise. The world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS, this year’s conference opened with a warning of the substantial impact that worldwide funding cuts are having on the HIV response, followed by an impassioned call to action from community activists and health leaders that pharmaceutical companies lower the cost and increase access to, innovative new treatments for countries most in need.
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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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