After many months of consultations with representatives of regional health authorities in BC, as well as the First Nations Health Authority, the BC-CfE is proud to announce the publication of the Provincial Best Practice in HIV Case Management.
BC’s provincial state of emergency, in place since March of 2020 due to COVID-19, was lifted on July 1st. While the pandemic endures around the world, BC’s vaccine rates are high and continue to climb and case counts are steadily dropping.
This June 21st is the 25thanniversary of NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay. This year the occasion, which celebrates the cultures of First Nations, Inuit andMétisPeoples and their contributions toCanada,closely follows the horrific discoveries of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the sites of former residential schools.
BC-CfE researchers presented their latest findings and publications at this month’s annual Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) conference.
On June 8th the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS adopted a set of new and ambitious targets.
National Nursing Week is upon us again and the BC-CfE is proud to celebrate this event honouring our registered nurses (RN), licensed practical nurses (LPN), and nurse practitioners (NP). Many of our frontline nursing staff work at the BC-CfE’s Hope to Health Research and Innovation Centre (H2H) in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), where they serve a difficult-to-reach population with compassion and strength.
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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