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New condensed offering of preceptorship program now extended to family physicians and nurse practitioners in other health authorities It’s lunchtime, but Dr. Silvia Guillemi isn’t on break. Instead, she’s leading a learning session for a small group of health care providers at St. Paul’s Hospital. It’s not unusual for Dr. Guillemi to participate in these […]

BC-CfE acted as intervener in case that is a critical step towards promoting health and safety, improving HIV prevention The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down the country’s anti-prostitution laws in a unanimous decision delivered on Dec. 20. The case of Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford was initiated in 2007 by three Ontario sex

Dr. Julio Montaner urges federal government to match key donors and deliver on the promise of an HIV- and AIDS-free generation in our lifetime. Following World AIDS Day on December 1, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria convened leaders from around the world in Washington, D.C. to make funding pledges to end

Add Brazil to the growing list of countries to officially embrace the HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) strategy. In October, Brazil joined France as the second country in less than a month to announce plans to adopt the made-in-B.C. concept as their national policy to combat HIV/AIDS. “The momentum is increasing to implement this strategy,

Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, far left, stands next to Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, at the release of Treatment 2015 framework in Nigeria in July. BC-CfE champions approach to scale up antiretroviral treatment to 15 million people worldwide by 2015 The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) applauds the Joint

Researchers from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) released this month a comprehensive report on the drug situation in Vancouver at an event at the Carnegie Community Centre in the city’s Downtown Eastside. The Drug Situation in Vancouver report, published by the BC-CfE Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI), compiled 15 years of data

‘Global responsibility is in front of us’ to implement guidelines, urges multi-disciplinary panel International HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop opens with call for immediate scale-up of access to treatment This past April, hundreds of leading international HIV experts gathered in Vancouver for the 3rd International HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop. The workshop began with an

Provincial government eyes Treatment as Prevention to fight viral hepatitis Application of BC-CfE’s HIV model could deliver a hepatitis-free generation to our province and be applied to other high burden diseases The Treatment as Prevention approach to fighting HIV has been so successful in British Columbia, the provincial government plans to implement a similar approach