The 11th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science took place from July 18th to the 21st and BC-CfE researchers attending the virtual conference used the opportunity to present their latest findings.
The BC-CfE supports the recent decision by the Government of BC to phase in a new policy expanding access to prescribed safer drug supply.
It’s been a busy summer for Rachel Miller, a graduate student in the BC-CfE’s Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics Group. Miller won a scholarship to attend the 23rd annual International AIDS Conference and she also won a prestigious award for the abstract she’ll be presenting at the conference.
After many months of consultations with representatives of regional health authorities in BC, as well as the First Nations Health Authority, the BC-CfE is proud to announce the publication of the Provincial Best Practice in HIV Case Management.
BC’s provincial state of emergency, in place since March of 2020 due to COVID-19, was lifted on July 1st. While the pandemic endures around the world, BC’s vaccine rates are high and continue to climb and case counts are steadily dropping.
This June 21st is the 25thanniversary of NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay. This year the occasion, which celebrates the cultures of First Nations, Inuit andMétisPeoples and their contributions toCanada,closely follows the horrific discoveries of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the sites of former residential schools.
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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