Before the STOP HIV/AIDS pilot had wrapped up and based on its early and remarkable success, the B.C. Government announced in 2013 a province-wide expansion of the STOP HIV/AIDS program. The announcement came with $19.9 million in funding for the province-wide rollout in an effort to provide prevention, testing, and treatment to hard-to-reach and highly […]
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IAS 2015 will take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre, 19 – 22 July 2015. Held every two years, the IAS conference is a unique forum for scientist, clinicians, public health experts and community leaders to examine the latest developments in HIV science and also explore how such developments can be realistically applied in implementation
Dr. Richard Harrigan, Director of the Laboratory Program at BC-CfE, is awarded the Innovation and Achievement Award by LifeSciences BC for his industry-leading work in HIV clinical research. BC-CfE UHRI publishes a study with the Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG) and Thailand’s Mitsampan Community Research Project. The study found the Thai government’s longstanding war-on-drugs,
BC-CfE hosts the 3rd International HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver. Read More »
The Momentum Health Study launched. Coordinated by the BC-CfE and funded by the National Institutes for Health (NIH), National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Momentum aims to report new estimates of HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Greater Vancouver area using
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The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a decision to strike down Canada’s prostitution laws for failing to protect sex workers’ health and safety. BC-CfE legally intervened in the case. The Supreme Court of Canada will hear the case in 2013. A study published by the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI) of the BC-CfE shows
BC-CfE celebrated 20 years of award-winning research and life-saving advancements Read More »
Science named Treatment as Prevention as the “scientific breakthrough of the year” for 2011, Time named it the number three scientific breakthrough of the year and Reader’s Digest called it a medical breakthrough for 2012.
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Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks on HIV/AIDS at the National Institutes of Health
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton endorsed Treatment as Prevention© Read More »
The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that InSite, Canada’s first safe-injection site which is evaluated by the BC-CfE, can remain open. Read the full article
Following the 2009 and 2010 meetings, co-hosted by the BC-CfE, on the global health evolution of HIV/AIDS and promoting implementation science of treatment as prevention, the Division of AIDS and BC-CfE established the International HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop to take place on an annual basis. The Workshop brings academic, policy, industry, and community representatives
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China announced the implementation of Treatment as Prevention, based on the B.C. model Read the full article here
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