With BC in the midst of two public health emergencies, one for COVID-19 and one for drug overdose deaths, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) has just launched a new Quality Improvement Network for its BOOST Collaborative (Best-Practices in Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy). Led by Dr. Rolando Barrios, the BC-CfE’s Senior Medical Director, […]
With BC currently in its longest-ever state of emergency, the BC-CfE continues to perform its critical work of promoting testing, treating and learning from people living with HIV (PLHIV), while carrying out epidemiological and infectious disease research and the mandate of Treatment as Prevention. In a recent webinar, BC-CfE’s senior leadership outlined how the Centre’s
New research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington state – the country’s first – was triggered by the very first confirmed case of the infection in the country. Instead, it suggests the person who ignited the first chain of sustained transmission in the United States probably returned to
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. New coronavirus antibody test highly accurate A new antibody test is highly accurate at determining whether people have been infected with
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is not drawing “firm conclusions” on allegations that the novel coronavirus – which has now caused devastation worldwide – came from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan. … In a previous interview with Global News, Jeffrey Joy, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s faculty
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The 29th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (CAHR 2020) will be going virtual this year. Click Virtual Conference Program in the menu bar for more information. Register now to ensure you receive access to the Conference. Registration is complimentary.
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Armies of researchers around the world are working overtime to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. While it will take some time until one is available to stop the spread of the deadly and highly contagious virus, it seems as though Canadians are divided by the idea of how it could be administered. … Jeffrey Joy,
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During these uncertain and unprecedented times, the senior leadership of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) presented a webinar to inform and reassure its clients, staff, and stakeholders, their critical work, with only a few minor modifications, will continue during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Presented on March 25th, the webinar titled, “COVID-19, the
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They can be heard at 7 p.m. every evening: ringing bells, clanging pots, honking horns, and blaring sirens sounding out in support of health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the workers on the frontlines are researchers at Providence Health Care who are trying to understand the virus and how to control and cure it.
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More than a dozen “rapid response” research projects have been launched by Genome B.C. aimed at improving COVID-19 virus and antibody detection, and accelerating the development of treatments and vaccines. Zabrina Brumme and Christopher Lowe are heading a collaboration aimed at creating a test that will not only reveal whether or not the virus is
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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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