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By Sofia Bartlett, Julia Santana Parrilla and Amrit Tiwana People who experience criminalization have the highest rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV)Read more
ABOUT
You Matter
ABOUT US
In partnership between British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), British Columbia Mental Health and Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS), University of British Columbia (UBC) and other stakeholders, we created a collaboration to work on transformative projects to improve outcomes related to Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STBBIs) for people with lived and living experience of incarceration (PWLLE-I). A key value of our projects is to ensure core work is relevant to key stakeholders by engaging them across project timelines. Key stakeholders include, but are not limited to, PWLLE-I, Indigenous peoples, members from LGBTQ2+, health care workers who work in prisons, corrections officers, and experts in serving/engaging/researching with key populations.
Values
Values embedded in the work of this project include engaging partners and producing outputs that align with:
- Trauma-informed care
- Cultural safety
- Harm Reduction
- Addressing stigma & social determinants of health
- Person-centered care that respects individuals and their health & concerns (including PWLLE-I, corrections staff, and health care providers)
- The importance of engagement in care to mitigate morbidity and mortality for STBBIs and other health issues
- Evidence/Fact-based sources
- Intersectionality
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that this work is carried out on the Traditional, Unceded, Ancestral, & Continually Occupied territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations. We thank the First Peoples of Turtle Island for their continued care and stewardship of these lands since time immemorial. We recognise that settler colonialism has caused irreparable harms to the First Peoples of this land, including through the colonial criminal justice system, in which Indigenous people are incarcerated at a rate up to 50 times higher than non-Indigenous people in Canada.
You Matter
NEWS & STORIES
The News & Stories page include blogs written by team members, news, project updates and past and upcoming events.
Blogs
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By Sofia Bartlett PhD | Comments are ClosedBy Sofia Bartlett, PhD, Senior Scientist for Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STIBBI) with Clinical Prevention Services at the BC Centre forRead more
Media / Press
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By Sofia Bartlett PhD | Comments are ClosedHepatitis C testing has increased in recent years among people who are incarcerated in provincial correctional centers in British Columbia, Canada, accordingRead more
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By Sofia Bartlett PhD | Comments are ClosedExcerpt and Highlights: “The words we write or speak have immense power and are part of societal discourse which both influences andRead more
Project Updates
STBBI Policy and Guideline
Development for BC Corrections
The You Matter Pathways to STBBI Care project is funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada …
Test, Link,
Call Project
We recently received funding for the Test, Link, Call (TLC) Project which will be launched in Fall 2021 …
Upcoming Events
American Association for the Study of
Liver Diseases (Digital Conference)
Date: Nov 12-15, 2021
Link to conference
https://www.aasld.org/the-liver-meeting/program/digital-experience
- Benefits of DAA treatment on mortality related to extrahepatic manifestations among people who inject drugs: a population-based study in British Columbia, Canada
- Hepatitis C virus reinfection after successful treatment with direct acting antiviral therapy in Canada
- Hepatitis C screening
