Vancouver Coastal Health
A listing of content for this category:
| Title | Text |
Updated |
|---|---|---|
| Life-expectancy jump astounds | Public-health experts are astounded by new statistics that show residents of the drug-and disease-... | 11 September 2012 |
| Vancouver can CHANGE HIVSTORY: The beginning of the end of HIV | Vancouver has reached a tipping point in the battle against HIV. It has the treatments... | 6 September 2012 |
| Working the frontlines to beat HIV/AIDS in the Downtown Eastside | Jacey Larochelle says seeing the lives of her clients living with HIV/AIDS in the Downtown Eastside... | 19 June 2012 |
| How Vancouver's war on drugs began | When William Lyon Mackenzie King came to Vancouver in the spring of 1908, he didn't come to start... | 22 March 2012 |
| HIV proves no obstacle for couples | Today, HIV-AIDS is no more a death sentence than it is a barrier to love. Vancouver Coastal Health... | 2 March 2012 |
| Riverview pilot for homeless will shut down | A pilot project at Riverview Hospital that filled a critical gap in serving the needs of the... | 25 January 2012 |
| Health authority weighs adding more supervised injection sites | Vancouver Coastal Health is looking at offering supervised injection services for heroin addicts at... | 19 January 2012 |
| STOP HIV: Discussion for HIV-positive staff | Are you a person living with HIV? Do you work in Vancouver with people who are HIV+ or at risk for... | 19 January 2012 |
| Keep Vancouver's Insite open, Supreme Court rules | The Harper government said Friday it is disappointed but will comply with a unanimous Supreme Court... | 11 January 2012 |
| Public health agents want every adult having sex in BC to get HIV tests | If you’re an adult living in Vancouver or Prince George who’s had sex, chances are very good that... | 10 January 2012 |
| Vancouver running out of free crackpipes | As Vancouver Coastal Health’s crackpipe distribution pilot wraps up its first month, two partner... | 10 January 2012 |
| Group calls for second supervised injection site in Vancouver | The group that runs InSite says there is a clear need for a second supervised injection site in... | 10 January 2012 |
| Free crack pipes now distributed in Vancouver as part of health strategy | Crack addicts in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have started receiving free crack pipes as part of a... | 5 January 2012 |
| Vancouver mayor won’t lobby for more drug injection sites | Mayor Gregor Robertson will not lead a charge to get more drug injection sites open in the city... | 18 October 2011 |
| St. Paul's Hospital to get $17-million overhaul | St. Paul's Hospital will get a $17.2-million upgrade to aging electrical infrastructure and... | 27 September 2011 |
| Free crack pipes to be handed out in Vancouver | Health officials in Vancouver say they will launch a pilot project later this year to distribute... | 5 August 2011 |
| Supreme Court of Canada to determine who has control over Vancouver’s supervised injection site | Canada’s top court will hear arguments Thursday (13 May) about whether a safe drug-injection site... | 30 June 2011 |
| Community Ambassador contract positions | POSITIVE LIVING BC’s Community Ambassador Team is a proactive and outgoing team responsible for... | 20 May 2011 |
| Study praises injection site | Researchers note decline in overdoses John Graham is feeling optimistic about digging himself out... | 27 April 2011 |
