Tag: L’hépatite C

The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, in partnership with the Toronto Community Hep C Program (TCHCP), invited people with lived experience of hepatitis C to take part in an art project called The Face of Our Story. In that project, clay tiles depicting stories of lived experience would be displayed at the museum on World Hepatitis Day, July 28, 2016. This is the story of two artists who participated in the event.

As of August 31st, 2016, the number of drug overdose deaths in the province of B.C. sat at 488, with the highest rate of fatal drug overdose occurring on Vancouver Island, where there has been a 135 per cent increase in fatal drug overdoses since August 31st, 2015 (compared to a 43.5 per cent increase provincially during the same time period). Health authorities, law enforcement, public health officers and politicians alike have stood shoulder to shoulder blaming fentanyl as the culprit; however I suggest that more obvious and sinister villains are responsible.

Le 27 février 2016, CATIE a eu la chance d’animer un autre institut d’apprentissage lors du 5e Symposium canadien sur le VHC qui s’est tenu à Montréal, Québec. Les instituts d’apprentissage constituent des occasions passionnantes d’échanger des connaissances et de renforcer les capacités pour les intervenants œuvrant dans le domaine de la prévention, du traitement et des soins liés à l’hépatite C à travers le Canada. Nos 15 rapporteurs se sont renseignés sur la recherche actuelle et ont travaillé ensemble afin de résumer l’information et de la distribuer au sein de leur communauté.   Dans la deuxième partie de cette série...