Category: Resources

April 10, 2017 – Surrey, BC With its strong focus on innovation, skills, partnerships and fairness, Budget 2017 takes the next steps in securing a more prosperous future for all Canadians. Today, the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, was in Surrey, British Columbia to highlight additional federal support for the opioid crisis announced last… Read more »

The BC Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor General has provided funding to the University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CARBC) to support community dialogues in response to the opioid overdose crisis in British Columbia. Community coalitions from every region of the province are invited to submit a letter of interest in… Read more »

The Professional Guidelines and Public Health Practice Division of the Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control within the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is pleased to announce that two new publications for the Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections have been publicly released.   1) The Laboratory Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infections chapter has been… Read more »

Things are already busy! Thanks for helping support and grow the MHI community by spreading the word of our services and events – together it’s amazing what we can accomplish! Keeping you up to date with MHI and community events is a part of this e-newsletter, so scroll on down and read about funding, testing,… Read more »

The third progress report of From Hope to Health: Towards an AIDS Free Generation is now available. This progress report from the Ministry of Health covers the third fiscal year of provincial expansion (April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016). In addition, there is a supporting technical document with the source data and the parameters… Read more »

Please find attached the combined summary of the engagement process on refreshing the Ministry’s strategic policy related to viral hepatitis (Healthy Pathways Forward) that took place late 2015 and early 2016. Between November 25, 2015 to January 20, 2016 the Ministry of Health (the Ministry), the BC Centre for Disease Control BCCDC) and the BC… Read more »

Sep 09, 2016 04:35 pm | Deb Schmitz The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has created a health database “…to assess and monitor disease burden, co-infections, disparities in testing and care, health care utilization, treatment uptake and completion, effectiveness of treatments, cost of hepatitis C-related illness and the impact of treatment on illness related… Read more »

ViiV Healthcare Positive Action Canada HIV/AIDS Innovation Program (PACIP) 2016 Program Overview The 2016 Positive Action Canada HIV/AIDS Innovation Program (PACIP) Call for Proposals is seeking community-based initiatives that improve outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) in Canada, and increase knowledge transfer and exchange of best practices amongst organizations working in the Canadian HIV… Read more »