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Dr. Julio Montaner profiled in BIV’s LifeSciences magazine

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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

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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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BC-CfE’s Dr. Jeffrey Joy’s vital COVID-19 research published in Science

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The BC-CfE’s Dr. Jeffrey Joy has joined an international team of researchers in the fight against COVID-19. Dr. Joy, a Senior Research Scientist specializing in evolutionary genetics, molecular epidemiology and bioinformatics at the BC-CfE, is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.

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Dr. Val Montessori, St. Paul’s Hospital new Head of Division of Infectious Diseases

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Earlier this year Providence Health Care announced Dr. Val Montessori as the new Head of its Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH). We spoke with Dr. Montessori to find out what inspires and informs her work as she takes on this important new role.

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BC-CfE’s Nance Cunningham, Experimental Medicine PhD student, chosen as a UBC Public Scholar

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The BC-CfE’s Nance Cunningham, an Experimental Medicine PhD student working in the EMBARC team (Epidemiological, Mathematical and Biostatistical analysis and Research Collaboration in HIV/AIDS) has been chosen as a UBC Public Scholar.The Public Scholars Initiative (PSI)supports creative, action-oriented research designed to address complex challenges and have meaningful public impact as part of a PhD thesis. The award will support Cunningham’s research partnerships with people affected by hepatitis C, and patient advocacy activists.

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BC-CfE researcher first to identify link between severe intimate partner violence and all-cause mortality among women living with HIV

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Globally, one in three women will experience some form of intimate partner violence in their lives. Some North American studies indicate this may be much more likely for women living with HIV. Despite improvements in HIV disease outcomes among women living with HIV in BC, multiple interacting inequities continue to disproportionately impact the health, wellbeing, and survival of women living with HIV.

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The BC-CfE’s Per-SVR Team Fights for HCV Awareness

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Globally, 290 million people are unaware they are living with a hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This significant global health problem affects as many as 80,000 individuals here in BC. Today on World Hepatitis Day, the theme is ‘Find the Missing Millions’ in order to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change.

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