UHRI
Urban Health Research Institute (UHRI) established as a program of the BC-CfE at St. Paul’s Hospital
BC-CfE Through the Years
BC-CfE launches the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI)
BC-CfE launches the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI), a network of studies examining the sexual health inequities and gaps in women-centred HIV care for marginalized populations. GSHI research focuses particularly youth, women and sex workers.
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Criminalization of Sex Work
A paper published by the BC-CfE in BMJ provides the first empirical evidence demonstrating an adverse relationship between the criminalization of sex work and elevated sexual HIV risk and violence in street-based sex work.
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BC-CfE’s Supervised Consumption Site saves lives
The latest available figures released by the B.C. Coroners Service show a record death toll from illicit drug overdoses through the first ten months of 2021. 1,782 people died, surpassing the 1,765 deaths recorded in 2020. The data from November and December are not available yet but we know October in BC saw a single
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Hope to Health brings comprehensive care to the Downtown Eastside
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
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BOOST Quality Improvement Network Launch
BOOST Quality Improvement Network is launched to continue to support this key element of healthcare improvement. The focus of the BOOST QI Network will be to strengthen and increase QI methodologies and improvement approaches while continuing to sustain and spread improvement gains made over the course of the Collaborative.
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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Vancouver Coastal Health Collaborate on Treatment Optimization of Psychosis (TOP)
The Treatment Optimization of Psychosis (TOP) Collaborative, launching today, is a quality improvement (QI) initiative led by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) Mental Health and Substance Use Services. The TOP Collaborative aims to systematically share, measure and implement best practices in the treatment of psychosis
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) supports the use of all four COVID-19 vaccines approved in Canada for persons living with HIV (PLWH)
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) Committee for Drug Evaluation and Therapy (CDET) has completed the evaluation of available data regarding the use of the four COVID-19 vaccines currently approved in Canada for persons living with HIV (PLWH). Those four vaccines are the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which are mRNA vaccines, and the AstraZeneca