Category: Archive

Northern Health has sent out an update of HIV activities in Northern BC.  In the update, find out things about the Northern Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Taskforce, Positive Living North, Point-of-Care testing, Chee Mamuk, among many others.  To read the full update, please click here

Look for articles on: Global Financing The Commonwealth, Sexual Apartheid, and HIV Injection Drug Use and Harm Reduction HIV Testing Women, Stigma, and Transmission To view the full newsletter, please click here.    

In this week’s update, check out the following articles: <!–[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} <![endif]–> High rate of cancer-causing human papillomavirus among women with hepatitis C awaiting liver transplants <!–[if gte mso 10]>… Read more »

Using Knowledge Exchange to Engage Communities

The BCCDC has released the provincial Annual Report on HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections for 2010, which describes trends in HIV, AIDS, and STIs up to 2010 for the province of British Columbia.  The format of this report is largely unchanged from previous reports, with the main change being the inclusion of data tables in… Read more »

A message from Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco PhD – Program Manager, Universities Without Walls (funded by a CIHR,Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research): I am delighted to invite you to join us in an informal consultation to begin building the 2012 Universities Without Walls Spring Learning Institute in Victoria BC. It will be held in the Training… Read more »

Highlights in this issue: 18 years of Innovation Becoming a Theatre Trouper The Criminalization of HIV Tools for Change: Interactive Art Event Theatre Troupe: Mpowerment Project Upcoming Events To view the full issue, please click here.

Highlights in this issue: High rate of hepatitis C (HCV) virus infection shows young drug injectors need better prevention interventions Hepatitis C transmission via injection drug use: look beyond needles and syringed New telaprevir (Incivek) trials to test drug in different settings Screening baby boomers for hepatitis C may be cost-effective way to reduce complications… Read more »

Highlights include: REACH Progress and Key Successes UWW 3.0: Tea time with Jessica Whitbread  Exciting Job Opportunity To read the full newsletter, please click here.

Vancouver Coast Health’s Community Engagement Teamhas sent out its November 2011 Community Engagement newsletter.  Included in this issue is: Transitions at VCH Community Engagement <!–[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;… Read more »

CIHR is circulating Issue 110 of its Funding News.  Included in this months issue:  – Implementing a Schedule for the Retention of Information on ResearchNet  – Funding opportunities posted between November 3 and November 14, 2011 by CIHR and its partners To view the full notice, please click here.

Through a partnership between FCV Interactive and Vancouver Coastal Health, Providence Health Care and the STOP HIV/AIDS Project, FCV Interactive has developed a campaign to normalize HIV testing in the general population.  The focus of the campaign is what is different about HIV now and how all areas of HIV have changed over the years. … Read more »