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

28 August 2020

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.

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

30 July 2020

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.

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

28 July 2020

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.

CHIWOS to Launch New Women-Centred HIV Care Toolkits

6 July 2020

In order to better support women living with HIV in Canada, the BC-CfE’s Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual & Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS) has developed new Women-Centred HIV Care Toolkits. The toolkits were created from an evidence-based, integrated knowledge translation approach.

Rachel Miller receives scholarship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

29 June 2020

The BC-CfE’s Rachel Miller, a master’s candidate working in the Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics group, is now a proud recipient of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) CREATE scholarship. Miller is using this opportunity primarily to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

BC-CfE researcher calls for further improvements to ‘game changing’ test used to measure the HIV reservoir

8 June 2020

BC-CfE PhD scholar Natalie Kinloch has written a paper calling for further improvements to a ‘game-changing’ molecular method used to measure the size of the intact HIV reservoir, the typically tiny and hard to find portion of the HIV reservoir capable of “waking up” to infect new cells in the body.