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Founded with a mandate that includes persistent monitoring of viral diseases, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) has developed world-leading expertise in this increasingly crucial area of public health. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus swept around the planet in March of 2020, the BC-CfE’s Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics Group, led by Senior Scientist, […]
Members of the Viral Hepatitis Research Program and partners at the Hope to Health Centre for World Hepatitis Day July 28th was World Hepatitis Day, an annual, purposeful opportunity to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to spark action. This year’s theme is ‘I Can’t Wait’, which highlights the urgency from […]
This year the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Since its inception in 1992, the advancements made by BC-CfE staff and its international collaborators have transformed HIV from a rapidly progressing fatal disease, to a chronic and manageable illness that is highly, and easily, preventable. Given a provincial mandate […]
Each year the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) and the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) present the CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Awards. This year’s award for Community-Based Research (CBR) was given to the Peer Research Associates (PRA) of the BC-CfE’s Thrive team. Thrive was a BC-CfE led CBR study with a three-year duration […]
BC has been under a public health emergency due to drug-related overdoses for six years now. Of the 9,400 lives lost to illicit drug toxicity in the province in that time, most deaths have occurred due to opioids, specifically fentanyl. However, the use of stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine, and the harms associated with […]
BOOST continues to improve lives for those living with opioid use disorder
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS’ (BC-CfE) QI team, led by Senior Medical Director Dr. Rolando Barrios, launched the Best-Practices in Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy Collaborative (BOOST) in 2017 as a partnership between the BC-CfE and Vancouver Coastal Health. As BOOST grew, more than 40 healthcare teams across BC joined the Collaborative, which has […]
Since opening in late 2019, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS’ (BC-CfE) Hope to Health Research and Innovation Complex (H2H) has offered comprehensive health care to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. For H2H clients, holistic means a team of healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, social workers, and peer research associates, will help with not […]
On December 1st we celebrate World AIDS Day, an opportunity to reflect on our challenges and successes four decades into the battle against HIV/AIDS. Around the world there are nearly 38 million people living with HIV and about 1.5 million new infections per year. A recent report by the World Health Organization estimates the number […]
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) researchers, collaborating with counterparts at Simon Fraser University, the University of BC, Providence Health Care and the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) recently published a study looking at COVID-19 vaccine immune responses in people living with HIV (PLWH). Due to the explosive growth of COVID-19 variants, and […]
A BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) research team is working to evaluate how a new primary care clinic can keep clients engaged in health care among residents of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES). The “Hope to Health Engagement and Retention Evaluation (HERE) Study” is being conducted from the Hope to Health (H2H) Research […]
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) created the first edition of its Primary Care Guidelines for the Management of HIV/AIDS in Adults in British Columbia back in 2011. Now, 10 years later, thanks to the diligent work of the Primary Care Guidelines Working Group (a working group appointed by the Committee for Drug […]
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. Taking place virtually from Berlin, IAS 2021 saw around 6,000 participants and opened with remarks from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and included […]