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
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
An image from the Opening Session at the 26th International AIDS Conference.
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) is pleased to congratulate BC-CfE Laboratory Director Dr. Zabrina Brumme on her appointment as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS).
In an announcement Tuesday, CAHS revealed the 47 new Fellows who represent the pinnacle of their respective fields, including Dr. Brumme for her extensive work in HIV. Considered one of the highest honours for individuals in the Canadian health sciences community, election to the CAHS reflects an outstanding dedication and excellence in one’s field, with a commitment to further enriching the broader health sciences.
Sunday December 1st marks World AIDS Day, a solemn day to remember the millions of lives lost to HIV/AIDS, reflect on the progress we’ve made and focus on the work still to be done. This day is particularly poignant here in BC, the epicentre of Canada’s epidemic in the 1980s. Within a decade and a half, however, the 1996 International AIDS Conference offered the first glimmer of hope with the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy, which for the first time allowed us to stop disease progression to AIDS and premature AIDS-related mortality. Shortly thereafter, we demonstrated that people living with HIV (PLWH) who were on effective therapy were no longer infectious, so we proposed to expand treatment coverage to all PLWH with the aim of stopping the epidemic.
August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day, an annual campaign to end overdoses, remember without stigma those who have died from overdose, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind. The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) joins families, friends and communities in mourning the needless losses of life through overdose and continue to advocate for an end to the toxic drug crisis through a safer supply of drugs.
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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