We’re in an ‘escalating arms race’ with the virus. Our fighting chance requires vigilance – and patience. Since vaccines began rolling out late last year, many British Columbians have wondered whether the shot would be their pass to hug an elderly loved one, shed their mask or plan postponed weddings. Not so fast, says provincial […]
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When Jenny Bailey learned she was next in line to get the COVID-19 vaccine, she could hardly contain herself. “I was so excited when I found out we were getting it. I was just stopping myself from doing cartwheels,” she says with a laugh. “I was thrilled.” As a member of a priority population, Bailey,
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Variants are spreading but we don’t know how much BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS research scientist in evolutionary genetics Jeffery Joy speaks with Stephen Quinn about the different covid variants and what it means for public health heading towards the spring.
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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS research scientist in evolutionary genetics Jeffery Joy speaks with Stephen Quinn about the different covid variants and what it means for public health heading towards the spring.
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A new test for measuring the reservoir of HIV hidden in the cells of people with HIV failed to detect this reservoir in a significant number of people with a subtype of HIV-1, according to a study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
A new test for measuring the reservoir of HIV hidden in the cells of people with HIV failed to detect this reservoir in a significant number of people with a subtype of HIV-1, according to a study from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine, Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) Committee for Drug Evaluation and Therapy (CDET) has completed the evaluation of the available data regarding the use of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for persons living with HIV (PLWH).
Anyone curious to see evolution playing out in real time need look no further than NextStrain.org, a website that depicts the ever-sprouting family trees of different pathogens residing in the human population. Maintained by a collective of computational biologists, NextStrain is currently displaying more than 3,500 genetically distinct branches of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
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Anyone curious to see evolution playing out in real time need look no further than NextStrain.org, a website that depicts the ever-sprouting family trees of different pathogens residing in the human population. Maintained by a collective of computational biologists, NextStrain is currently displaying more than 3,500 genetically distinct branches of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
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Started December 1, 1988, World AIDS Day annually raises awareness of the AIDS pandemic and is a day to mourn those who have died of the disease. The World Health Organization chose to focus on “Global solidarity, resilient HIV services” as its theme for this year. As of 2019 there were 38 million people living
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The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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