The teams participating in the BC-CfE’s Provincial BOOST Collaborative met in June for its third learning session, and is now approaching the halfway point for the quality improvement project aiming to improve engagement in treatment for opioid use disorder.
VANCOUVER-Vancouver is leading the way in harm reduction and the prevention of overdoses but faces similar gentrification and stigma challenges to most other cities, according to the director of a landmark needle-exchange program in the U.S. Dr. Hansel Tookes, founder and medical director of the IDEA Exchange in Miami, was in Vancouver to deliver the
BC-CfE’s provincial BOOST Collaborative is following on the heels of the successful Vancouver-based BOOST Collaborative. BOOST is inspired by the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention¨ strategy and supports a Targeted Disease Elimination¨ (TDE¨ ) approach. This means using tools and strategies that have been proven through the work of the BC-CfE in curbing HIV transmissions. The TDE¨ strategy can address contagious diseases and diseases with a social contagion factor, such as substance use disorders.
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Dr. Robert (“Bob”) Hogg was officially inducted into the Order of Canada on February 1st, an accomplishment he doesn’t just see as an award but as a national responsibility. “It’s very humbling, especially when you start to meet other people who have been inducted, to be a part of that group,” he said. Dr. Hogg’s
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The initiative, led by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Vancouver Coastal Health, uses the same strategy that helped drive down the province’s HIV and AIDS rates. A pilot project in Vancouver is being expanded across British Columbia after more than double the number of drug-addicted people stayed in treatment to prevent them
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A first-of-its-kind opioid addiction treatment program, first piloted in Vancouver, will soon roll out across the rest of the province as B.C. grapples with nearly 2,800 overdose deaths since 2017. In a news conference Thursday, members of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Vancouver Coastal Health released results from a one-year pilot program
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Another tool in the fight against the opioid crisis across B.C. has been unveiled. Vancouver Coastal Health has teamed up with the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS to roll out Best Practices in Oral Opioid Agonist Therapy (BOOST) province-wide to combat overdose deaths. The goal of the 18-month pilot project
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Following a successful pilot project in Vancouver, an overdose prevention program is now rolling out province-wide. For the past year the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS has been assisting Vancouver Coastal Health with BOOST (Best Practice is Oral Opioid Agonist Therapy). The project applied some of the same strategies used to reduce the spread
VANCOUVER – An 18-month pilot project is being expanded across British Columbia after more than double the number of drug-addicted people stayed in treatment to stop them from fatally overdosing. The initiative, led by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Vancouver Coastal Health, uses the same strategy that helped drive down the province’s
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