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Progress on the hepatitis C virus care cascade in BC, and gaps to reaching the 2030 elimination targets

Oct 30, 2019 by Sofia Bartlett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Prevention Services, BC Centre for Disease Control

Background

Globally, death and illness from hepatitis C are increasing despite new medications, which are called Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs), that cure over 95% of people treated. The World Health...

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Categories: New knowledge

Search related content: hepatitis C, hepatitis testers cohort, cascade of care

Complete this survey to help create a directory of BC hepatitis C treatment providers

Oct 22, 2019 by Hepatitis Services team, Clinical Prevention Services, BC Centre for Disease Control

The Hepatitis Services team at the BC Centre for Disease Control invites those who provide (or work at a clinic that provides) hepatitis C treatment in British Columbia (BC) to participate in a short survey.

The survey will be...

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Categories: Events and announcements

Search related content: hepatitis C, clinical practice, health care provider

Ocular syphilis in British Columbia – Re-emergence of an old disease

Oct 15, 2019 by Hasan Hamze, Medical Student, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine

Background

Infectious syphilis rates in British Columbia (BC) are the highest they’ve been in 30 years from 2018 data [1]. Males account for the majority...

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Categories: New knowledge

Search related content: syphilis, HIV, gbMSM

GetCheckedOnline Celebrates 5 Years

Sep 25, 2019 by Heather Pedersen, Online Sexual Health Services Manager, BC Centre for Disease Control; Devon Haag, Digital Public Health Manager, BC Centre for Disease Control

GetCheckedOnline (GCO), Canada’s first internet-based testing service for sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI), celebrates its 5 year anniversary this month.

...

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Categories: Program updates

Search related content: GetCheckedOnline, digital health, internet testing, sexually transmitted infections

New BCCDC Non-Certified Practice Decision Support Tool: HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)

Sep 19, 2019 by Geoffrey Ford, HIV/STI Senior Practice Lead, Clinical Prevention Services, BC Centre for Disease Control

Please join the BCCDC education team for a Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) webinar to review this new Decision Support Tool (DST) for Registered Nurse assessment and management of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP).  This DST...

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