Providence Health Care Research Institute Trust
$6,228,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Health Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2020-2021
- Agreement period
- July 20, 2020 – March 31, 2025
- Reference
- hc-sc:271-2023-2024-Q4-00032
Published purpose
Established a prescribed alternatives (safer supply) program in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for people at risk of overdose and death due to the increasingly toxic illegal drug supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the project offered a personalized, low-barrier approach, with a variety of opioid medications available and extended operating hours.
In plain English AI-generated
This grant funds a prescribed safer supply program in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, offering opioid medications to people at risk of overdose from toxic illegal drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Category: Health Primarily funds activity in Canada
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