The opioid epidemic has proven to be one of the most trying public health problems since the HIV/AIDS crisis. Some believe the lessons learned during the multi-decade AIDS crisis can be used to help combat the opioid overdose epidemic. As Vancouver has been at the forefront of the deadly opioid epidemic, programs like BOOST Collaborative
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The opioid crisis continues to be one of B.C.’s most pressing health issues and now as Aaron McArthur reports, experts who were on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are using their knowledge to help stem the tide of overdose deaths.Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
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In this week’s brief tour of recently published research, we get a new glimpse into the huge successes of Vancouver’s years-long effort to reduce harm and increase HIV-related services among injection drug users. We also learn about the relative safety of stem-cell transplantation in people with HIV, the ability of certain biomarkers to predict future
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This Saturday, federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor will be in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to visit ground zero of the worst public-health crisis in decades. In British Columbia, people are dying of drug overdose at a rate of almost four per day. Across Canada, more people are dying than at the height of the HIV-AIDS
Initiating combination anti-HIV therapy (ART) can greatly reduce the amount of HIV in the blood (viral load). Over time, as the viral load continues to fall, in the majority of people it reaches a very low level that cannot be accurately assessed using routine laboratory tests. Such low viral load levels are commonly called “undetectable.”
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It’s the first program of its kind in Canada and could mark a radical change in the way treatment is offered to people living with opioid use disorder. The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) marked the launch of the BOOST (Best-practices in Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy) Collaborative by
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A new pilot project modelled after a successful Vancouver-made HIV/AIDS strategy will have teams of medical professionals and other front-line staff regularly check in on thousands of people in the city on opioid-substitution therapy with the goal of making sure they don’t miss a day of treatment. The Best-practice is Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy Collaborative
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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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