The website for theClinical Education and Training Programat the BC-CfE was created in 2014 to provide educational information regarding HIV to clinicians and health care professionals. Since its launch, it has received accolades and served to provide both online and in-person training to hundreds of healthcare providers, community members and patients across Canada.
Meet some of the members of the Vancouver Coastal Health STOP Outreach Team, helping to expand access to HIV testing and treatment to the city’s most hard-to-reach populations.
he BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) supports and congratulates the Honourable Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould’s statement regarding the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure. Her promise to re-examine the legislation is a welcome sign of an impending shift towards evidence-based laws to protect the human rights of those living withHIV,while reducing stigma.
It is with great honour and pride that I acknowledge the recognition of the TD Bank 2016 Award for the “10 most influential Hispanic Canadians”, presented by His Excellency Luis Almagro Lemes, Secretary General of the Organization of American States. I find it particularly humbling to be spotlighted for my work and as a Hispanic Canadian.
This year, representatives from the Government of Canada gathered on Parliament Hill to mark World AIDS Day with a public testing event and a flag raising ceremony. This was the very first time, since its inception in 1992, that the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS was invited to Ottawa to mark this important awareness day.
This year’s Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week was full of activities, with 11 events held across the country between December 1st and December 6th. Starting in Ottawa on World AIDS Day, the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) launched this important time for awareness in the nation’s capital, alongside partners and representatives from First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. The main drive for the week was to bring together government and community to help reduce stigma around HIV.
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’.
For more details and example reports, please click on the button below
