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BC-CfE researchers attend world’s most influential meeting on HIV research

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The 11th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science took place from July 18th to the 21st and BC-CfE researchers attending the virtual conference used the opportunity to present their latest findings. Taking place virtually from Berlin, IAS 2021 saw around 6,000 participants and opened with remarks from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and included […]

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BOOST and Coast Mental Health Collaboration Improves Lives of Those Living With OUD

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More than 1,300 people have died from illicit drug poisoning in BC so far this year. Some months saw a death toll greater than double the same month the previous year, and June alone had 183 people die of an overdose. This was the highest monthly overdose related death toll in BC’s history.

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BC-CfE launches BOOST Quality Improvement Network building on previous BOOST Collaboratives

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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,

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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS invites the “Berlin Patient”, the first person to be cured of HIV, to Vancouver

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“It’s extraordinary story,” begins Dr. Zabrina Brumme, Laboratory Director at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Professor of Health Sciences at SFU. Timothy Brown, known worldwide as the “Berlin patient” and the first person to be cured of HIV, was introduced by Dr. Brumme to a conference room in Vancouver. Attendees included

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Teams from across the province share ideas to BOOST engagement in lifesaving OAT

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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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BC-CfE announces provincewide initiative to increase access to lifesaving treatment for opioid use disorder

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On January 17th, the BC-CfE announced the launch of a provincewide initiative, supported by a funding grant from Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addiction Program. The first-of-its-kind initiative based on the BC-CfE’s world-renowned Treatment as Prevention (TasP) strategy to curb HIV and AIDS—will roll out across all BC regional health authorities in early 2019. This

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Walk-in clinic for people with opioid addictions slated to open in Downtown Eastside

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A new walk-in clinic for people with opioid addictions and other health issues including HIV and hepatitis C is opening in the Downtown Eastside. The clinic, called Connections, will be accessible through a door on the alley at an expanded Hope to Health Research Centre at 625 Powell. People will be able to walk into

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