Research Projects

You Matter: Pathways to STBBI Care in BC Provincial Corrections Project

Status: Completed

Project Lead: Sofia Bartlett

To address barriers to Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infection (STBBI) testing and care in prisons, BC Centre for Disease Control and BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services created the ‘You Matter: Pathways to STBBI Care in BC Provincial Corrections Project’. As part of this project, we have been conducting surveys and workshops with staff and residents in BC Provincial Correctional Centres, as well as people with lived experience of incarceration (PWLE) in the community, to get input from them about their previous experiences, preferences, and needs related STBBI testing and care in prisons. This information is being used to create a new policy and guideline on STBBI testing and and care for BC Provincial Corrections. Staff and residents, as well as PWLE of incarceration in the community, will also get the opportunity to review and give feedback or suggest changes to the policy and guideline before it is implemented.

Learn more: https://stbbipathways.ca/guidelines/
See the policy guidelines here: https://stbbipathways.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/YouMatter-STBBI-Policies-Guidelines-Final_07Jul2022-hires.pdf