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Dr. Julio Montaner Honoured as Groundbreaking Physician by Canada Post

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This September, the BC-CfE’s Executive Director & Physician-in-Chief Dr. Julio Montaner was honoured by Canada Post as part of their Medical Groundbreakers stamp series. The new stamps honour groundbreaking contributions to medicine and include six Canadian physicians and researchers who revolutionized their fields of health care. Alongside Dr. Montaner, those chosen by Canada Post include […]

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BC-CfE contributes to vital dialogue at a virtual 23rd International AIDS Conference

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The fitting theme of AIDS 2020, the first fully-virtual International AIDS Conference, was Resilience. The theme reminded the global HIV community of its ability to come together despite a global pandemic to share our commitment to HIV prevention, treatment and cure research. More than 180 countries participated in this year’s conference, held during the second

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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-CfE provides update on response to COVID-19, while teams lead new research into the virus

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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

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BC-CfE Response to COVID-19

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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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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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