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STBBI Policy and Guideline Development for BC Corrections

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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 and is being run through the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) in partnership with BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS) and many other collaborators.

The project’s vision is to create policy and guidelines for STBBI testing and linkage to care for BC Provincial Correctional Centres. This work is being done with input from key stakeholders, including people with lived or living experience with incarceration (PWLLE-I), BC Correctional Officers, health care providers; researchers, and representatives from community organizations that serve people affected. Stakeholders have been involved in designing, conducting, and/or participating educational “workshop” engagements on STBBIs.

In Phase 1, due to COVID-19 restrictions, engagements consisted of virtual engagements or one-to-one surveys, included basic STBBI facts, and asked participants about their perspectives on multiple aspects of STBBI testing in correctional facilities. This information will be used to inform the initial draft of the STBBI guidelines.

In Phase 2, key stakeholders will again be engaged to provide input into the draft guidelines and be considered in the final product.

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The News & Stories page include blogs written by team members, news, project updates and past and upcoming events.

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  • Improving access to Hepatitis C care among people who experience criminalization

    By Sofia Bartlett PhD | 0 comment

    By Sofia Bartlett, Julia Santana Parrilla and Amrit Tiwana People who experience criminalization have the highest rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV)Read more

  • Test, Link, Call (TLC) Project: Improving Connection to Hepatitis C Virus Treatment After Release from Provincial Prisons in BC

    By Sofia Bartlett PhD | 0 comment

    By Sofia Bartlett, PhD, Senior Scientist for Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STIBBI) with Clinical Prevention Services at the BC Centre forRead more

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  • HCV testing increasing in Canadian correctional centers

    By Sofia Bartlett PhD | 0 comment

    Hepatitis C testing has increased in recent years among people who are incarcerated in provincial correctional centers in British Columbia, Canada, accordingRead more

  • Article Summary: It is Time For Us All to Embrace Person-Centred Language for People in Prison and People Who Were Formerly in Prison

    By Sofia Bartlett PhD | Comments are Closed

    Excerpt 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 …

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Test, Link,
Call Project

We recently received funding for the Test, Link, Call (TLC) Project which will be launched in Fall 2021 …

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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



In partnership with the BCCDC, BCMHSUS, UBC and other
stakeholders, we created a group that has been working on
transformative projects to improve health outcomes for
people in prison related to STBBIs.

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  • STBBI Policy and Guideline Development for BC Corrections
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  • ADVANCE COVID-19 Vaccines Study

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