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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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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Patients can obtain a test without having to visit a physician Getting tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) just got easier for residents across the Interior Health (IH) region, now that On Demand testing is available at all IH laboratories (http://bit.ly/2PD39aL). Patients can now visit any IH lab – including the labs at the Ashcroft
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VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. – The Island Health STOP HIV/AIDS Program is calling for proposals for their Community Grants Program. Island Health will award grants of up to $10, 000 to communities or groups interested in addressing HIV prevention as well as care and treatment. According to a post from Island Health, they want to make
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Ten years ago, the BC-CfE officially launched the Pharmacovigilance Initiative to closely monitor the safety of HIV antiretroviral drug treatment.
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