Healthy Aging Talks: Liver Health
Women living with HIV attended an in-person/virtual event to learn more about liver health
Details
BCC3 Healthy Aging Talks is a new event series from the BCC3 study team where we communicate personalized BCC3 research results to women who participated in the study
Event Summary
Partnering with Ribbon Community (formerly known as AIDS Vancouver), our first BCC3 Healthy Aging Talks: Liver Health events took place on March 25th (in-person) and April 8th (virtual).
- In preparation for the event, our team developed a "Liver Health Roadmap" - a booklet that provides information about liver health, as well as advice and tips about how to talk about liver health with care providers. The booklet also included a BCC3 liver health research result - a non-invasive marker of liver damage that we measure in the study.
- At the event, women had a chance to learn more about liver health during the booklet presentation and then solidify the knowledge during two rounds of trivia and Q&A.
- We were lucky to be accompanied by Dr. Sofia Bartlett, Florence Ranville (in-person), and Dahn Jeong (virtual), who provided valuable resources about hepatitis C treatment, testing, and prevention. At the end, women were able to request personalized booklets (with their own result labeled as "you are here" in a graph containing more than 300 data points).
- The events brought together 27 women (17 in-person and 10 virtual), and we are excited to continue with the series.
Stay tuned for the future BCC3 Healthy Aging Talks that will focus on heart health, immune health, kidney health, and more!
ORGANIZATION
We are a research team of women living with HIV, community, clinicians, and academics based in British Columbia, Canada, and we seek to better understand healthy aging in women+ living with HIV!