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Social changes, increases testing all contribute to higher STI rates (Photo Credit: Dreamstime Photo)
Infectious Diseases • News Releases and Coverage • Sexual Health

Removing the stigma: CDC wants you to talk about sex as STIs continue to surge in B.C. (BC Centre for HIV)

September 5, 2019
Timothy Ray Brown chats with Dr. Zabrina Brumme of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. (Photo Credit: NICK PROCAYLO / PNG)
News Releases and Coverage

The Berlin Patient: Cured of HIV with a stem cell transplant, Timothy Brown visits Vancouver (BC Centre for HIV/AIDS)

September 5, 2019
Protesters march for affordable housing on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in August. Many protesters were living in a homeless camp at Oppenheimer Park where drug use was rampant. (Photo Credit: Maggie MacPherson/CBC)
News Releases and Coverage

Stable housing critical to kicking addiction say users, experts (SPH)

September 5, 2019
An individual enters the Overdose Prevention Society in Vancouver on April 1, 2019, where it is estimated that 25 to 20 overdoses in the past two weeks have left victims unconscious even after the overdose antidote naloxone was administered. (Photo Credit: JACKIE DIVES/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
News Releases and Coverage

In Vancouver, front-line workers are facing ‘a different kind of overdose’ in new synthetic drug (SPH)

September 4, 2019
A woman is helped into the Mobile Medical Unit after a suspected overdose in the Downtown Eastside on Dec. 21, 2016. (Photo Credit: BEN NELMS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
News Releases and Coverage

Mobile Medical Unit brings hope, relief to B.C. overdose victims (SPH)

September 4, 2019
This employer-paid specialty education program helps nurses achieve their career goals (Photo Credit: Daily Hive)
News Releases and Coverage

This employer-paid specialty education program helps nurses achieve their career goal (PHC)

September 4, 2019
Vancouver police are looking for suspect in unprovoked attack at the corner of Burrard and Nelson streets Aug. 29. (Photo Credit: Vancouvercourier.com)
News Releases and Coverage

Man leaves three injured in downtown Vancouver sucker-punching spree (SPH)

September 4, 2019
Burnaby Hospital. (Martin MacMahon, NEWS 1130)
News Releases and Coverage

B.C. investing $1.3B in redevelopment of Burnaby Hospital (New SPH)

September 4, 2019
Buckling under the overdose crisis, Vancouver is giving people prescription opioids to save them from fentanyl on the street. (By Travis Lupick; photos by Jackie Dives)
News Releases and Coverage

Canada Might Have Found a Back Door to End the War on Drugs (OPS)

September 4, 2019
A security guard checks the run-down shared bathroom at the Sahota-owned Regent Hotel. (Photo Credit: DARRYL DYCK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
News Releases and Coverage

For low-income residents in Vancouver, a different kind of real estate crisis (Downtown Eastside)

September 3, 2019

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