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.

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 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.

In British Columbia, the first full week of June has been celebrated as “Seniors’ Week” to acknowledge the contribution of seniors in our communities. During the 2020 Seniors’ Week, on June 5th we will also commemorate the Day of HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivors, launched by Tez Anderson, founder of the US national movement Lets Kick ASS (which stands for AIDS Survivor Syndrome).

The BC-CfE is proud to celebrate National Nursing Week 2020. The theme for this year’s week is Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Nursing the World to Health.