The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) congratulates Dr. Deborah Birx on her appointment as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
Quasi-experiments: Research without an experiment
BC-CfE shines spotlight on HIV cure research at Nanaimo community event
Primary care physicians and nurse practitioners from over 20 clinics across Metro Vancouver converged on UBC’s Robson Square for the first Inner City Medicine Review last fall. The event was organized and hosted by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) Department of Family and Community Practice to encourage sharing best practices in treating some of the most challenging conditions clients in the inner city present with in Vancouver clinics. These include opioid use disorder, psychosis, hepatitis C and COPD, among others.
Dr. Cong Jin presents on innovative steps China is taking to increase HIV testing efficiency including installing HIV test kits in vending machines at universities across the country.
Recent BC-CfE paper published in the Journal of Virology expands our understanding of the genetic diversity of the HIV reservoir.
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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