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Hope to Health brings comprehensive care to the Downtown Eastside

17 September 2021

The BC-CfE is bringing comprehensive, wrap-around, health care to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) through the services it offers at its Hope to Health Research and Innovation Complex (H2H). Opened in late 2019 and located in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), H2H is a multi-building complex that provides integrated harm reduction, safer supply, and primary care services to its clients with on-site laboratory services.

BC-CfE Researchers help fight drug resistance to Hepatitis C treatments

16 September 2021

A new research paper published by the BC-CfE laboratory’s scientists will help healthcare providers improve treatments for people living with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The study, led by Dr. Hope Lapointe, describes a new test that physicians can use to help “personalize” their patients’ HCV treatment.

BC-CfE’s Dr. Robert Hogg elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

13 September 2021

Senior Research Fellow at the BC-CfE and Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Robert Hogg was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for 2021. This recognition by the RSC for career achievement ranks among the highest academic honours for a Canadian.

BC-CfE Commemorates International Overdose Awareness Day

30 August 2021

Today, August 31st, is International Overdose Awareness Day. The annual campaign, started in 2001, is part of a global movement to end overdoses, end stigma surrounding drug use, and to acknowledge the grief of the families and friends who’ve lost loved ones to drug overdoses.

BC-CfE joins REACH Collaboratory in HIV cure research

26 August 2021

The BC-CfE’s Laboratory and its Director, Dr. Zabrina Brumme, are celebrating another recent success in being awarded grant funding for research. The BC-CfE, along with frequent collaborating partner Simon Fraser University, are now a part of the U.S.-based Research Enterprise to Advance a Cure for HIV (REACH) Collaboratory.

BC-CfE researchers examine mood and anxiety disorders and their links to HIV risk among sexual minorities

20 August 2021

New research led by the BC-CfE’s Dr. Viviane Dias Lima examines how sexually risky behavior is linked to mood or anxiety disorders among lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in BC.