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Founded with a mandate that includes persistent monitoring of viral diseases, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) has developed world-leading expertise in this increasingly crucial area of public health. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus swept around the planet in March of 2020, the BC-CfE’s Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics Group, led by Senior Scientist, […]

Members of the Viral Hepatitis Research Program and partners at the Hope to Health Centre for World Hepatitis Day July 28th was World Hepatitis Day, an annual, purposeful opportunity to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to spark action. This year’s theme is ‘I Can’t Wait’, which highlights the urgency from

This year the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Since its inception in 1992, the advancements made by BC-CfE staff and its international collaborators have transformed HIV from a rapidly progressing fatal disease, to a chronic and manageable illness that is highly, and easily, preventable. Given a provincial mandate

Each year the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) and the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) present the CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Awards. This year’s award for Community-Based Research (CBR) was given to the Peer Research Associates (PRA) of the BC-CfE’s Thrive team. Thrive was a BC-CfE led CBR study with a three-year duration

The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS’ (BC-CfE) QI team, led by Senior Medical Director Dr. Rolando Barrios, launched the Best-Practices in Oral Opioid agoniSt Therapy Collaborative (BOOST) in 2017 as a partnership between the BC-CfE and Vancouver Coastal Health. As BOOST grew, more than 40 healthcare teams across BC joined the Collaborative, which has