The BC-CfE recognizes the unfathomable grief and loss Indigenous peoples and their families have suffered, and continue to suffer, through colonization and the residential school system. Accepting these challenging and difficult truths is an essential part of the journey of healing and reconciliation.
A new research report by the BC-CfE adds to the growing body of evidence that elderly individuals don’t mount as strong, or durable, immune responses to the COVID-19 vaccines as compared to younger individuals. This COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF)-funded study was done in collaboration with Providence Health Care and Simon Fraser University. The study is currently in pre-print and has not yet been peer-reviewed.
The BC-CfE is bringing comprehensive, wrap-around, health care to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) through the services it offers at its Hope to Health Research and Innovation Complex (H2H). Opened in late 2019 and located in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), H2H is a multi-building complex that provides integrated harm reduction, safer supply, and primary care services to its clients with on-site laboratory services.
A new research paper published by the BC-CfE laboratory’s scientists will help healthcare providers improve treatments for people living with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The study, led by Dr. Hope Lapointe, describes a new test that physicians can use to help “personalize” their patients’ HCV treatment.
Senior Research Fellow at the BC-CfE and Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Robert Hogg was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for 2021. This recognition by the RSC for career achievement ranks among the highest academic honours for a Canadian.
Today, August 31st, is International Overdose Awareness Day. The annual campaign, started in 2001, is part of a global movement to end overdoses, end stigma surrounding drug use, and to acknowledge the grief of the families and friends who’ve lost loved ones to drug overdoses.
The BC-CfE’s Laboratory and its Director, Dr. Zabrina Brumme, are celebrating another recent success in being awarded grant funding for research. The BC-CfE, along with frequent collaborating partner Simon Fraser University, are now a part of the U.S.-based Research Enterprise to Advance a Cure for HIV (REACH) Collaboratory.
New research led by the BC-CfE’s Dr. Viviane Dias Lima examines how sexually risky behavior is linked to mood or anxiety disorders among lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in BC.
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.
The BC-CfE supports the recent decision by the Government of BC to phase in a new policy expanding access to prescribed safer drug supply.
During the Canada Post strike announced September 25, 2025, the following measures will be undertaken to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.
During the Canada Post strike, we recommend that documents be faxed or couriered to our sites, versus utilization of regular mail service
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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