BC-CfE, St. Paul’s and UBC to lead new addiction medicine fellowship program Goldcorp donation will be used to help establish an addiction training program – the first of its kind in the world The field of addiction medicine in B.C. is set to make huge advances after resource firm Goldcorp Inc. announced a $5-million donation […]

STOP HIV/AIDS project links high-risk populations to HIV testing and care Bathhouse testing pilot project aims to increase testing and treatment services for men who have sex with men Steven Lofton, who has been a nurse for nearly 30 years, sheds light on the effectiveness of the project and how it offers HIV-positive gay men […]

International workshop highlights B.C.’s pioneering role in the fight against HIV/AIDS B.C. leads in the implementation of Treatment as Prevention to significantly decrease death, disease progression, and new HIV diagnoses in the province Hundreds of leading international HIV scientists from around the world congregated in Vancouver last month to hear the latest research on […]

BC-CfE, chief provincial medical health officers call for marijuana regulation Top doctors from British Columbia and Nova Scotia urge policy-makers to rethink failed war-on-drugs approach to improve community health and safety B.C.’s chief provincial medical health officer, Dr. Perry Kendall and his Nova Scotia counterpart, Dr. Robert Strang, called upon the federal government to evaluate […]

Global gathering for special session of BC-CfE’s HIV/Antiretroviral Update Researchers from St. Paul’s Hospital and as far away as China meet in Vancouver to discuss HIV strategies Dr. Yiming Shao, from the Beijing-based Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, took a packed room of researchers and health professionals through China’s comprehensive approaches for control […]

International acclaim marks breakthrough year for Treatment as Prevention Science and Time among top media to recognize HIV strategy “Treatment as Prevention” was named the #1 breakthrough of the year by Science, a top-10 medical breakthrough by Time and a 2012 medical breakthrough by Readers Digest Canada. The December 2011 issue of Science highlighted the […]

BC-CfE Treatment as Prevention campaign promotes routine testing in HIV New ‘Share the Pledge, Take the Test’ social media initiative to help end HIV The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) marked December 1, World AIDS Day, by launching a social media campaign that encourages the province’s youth to get tested for HIV and […]

Hillary Clinton Endorses BC-CfE’s Treatment as Prevention Strategy B.C. Premier Christy Clark lauds call for AIDS-free generation Hillary Rodham Clinton, the high-profile United States (US) Secretary of State, called the Treatment as Prevention strategy pioneered by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) a vital plank in her comprehensive proposal to combat HIV and […]

Supreme Court of Canada rules Insite will remain open Landmark decision heralded as a victory for public health In the morning darkness on September 30, Insite supporters, staff and clients erupted with cheers, hugs and tears of joy on hearing the Supreme Court of Canada’s historic decision to allow North America’s first supervised injection site […]