Advocacy

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Alan Huang HepCBC Board Member at the WHA 2017 Conference in Brazil (back row, smiling, 4th from right)

Some of the Things We Do:

  • Offer personal support (face-to-face, phone, email)
  • Prison Outreach: Toll-free line: 1-844-268-2118
  • Publish pamphlets wherever we see a gap (Ex: Baby Boomers and Patient Rights)
  • Distribute pamphlets and pamphlet holders in your local doctors’ offices, clinics, labs, immigrant and ethnic associations, Friendship Centres, etc.
  • Educate the public: After more than 20 years nonstop, we recently transitioned from publishing our monthly bulletin, the hepc.bull, into putting all of our news through our website hepcbc.bchep.org, our Facebook site (HepCBCFace), and our You Tube Channel (hepcbc).
  • Put awareness ads on public transport throughout BC
  • Set up information tables and booths at community events
  • Participate in various organizations dedicated to curing hepatitis C
  • Actively engage municipal, provincial and national government in hepatitis C issues such as eliminating barriers to treatment access and broadening testing guidelines, as well as confronting stigma and discrimination.
  • Provide patient group input to BC PharmaCare and CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health) in order to get new drugs approved in Canada and made accessible in BC

Conferences and Organizations (participation in and/or presentations to:)

  • Canadian Treatment Action Council (CTAC)
  • Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
  • Action Hepatitis Canada (AHC)
  • Pacific AIDS Network (PAN)
  • International Hepatitis Cure & Eradication Meeting
  • Canadian Association of Hepatology Nurses (CAHN)
  • The Canadian Society for International Health “HCV Services for Immigrants in Canada:  Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned” – presentation by HepCBC
  • Presentation to AGM of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
  • The 5th Canadian Symposium on HCV
  • World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) Conference, Glasgow, UK
  • Canadian Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (CSGNA)

2020 Highlights

2019 Highlights

2018 Highlights

2017 Highlights

2016 Highlights

2015 Highlights

2014 Highlights

  • HepCBC Liver Warriors Marathon Team, Victoria, BC
  • Canadian Association of Hepatology Nurses (CAHN)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) HCV Symposium
  • Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL)
  • Outreach Road Trip To Northern BC
  • World Hepatitis Day
  • Info booth at VIRCS (Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society Multicultural Food and Health Fair)
  • Info booth at UVIC Student Society’s Annual Volunteer Fair