About Us
At the Oak Tree Clinic, we provide specialized, interprofessional care for women and families with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease.
- Providing optimal care to any woman, child, youth, partner or family member living with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease in BC
- Providing care that is sensitive to all individuals irrespective of racial/ethnic origin, social/economic status, religious affiliation, lifestyle or sexual orientation
- Improving access to medical care, psychosocial support and non-directive counselling for all individuals with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, or congenital infectious disease
- Encouraging people, their families and/or caregivers to maximize their involvement in their health care needs
- Promoting physical, mental, social and economic well-being of people infected with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease
- Educating people , their families and caregivers, health care and allied professionals and the public regarding HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease
- Promoting prevention strategies for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in all people
- Honouring and supporting the patients' right to choose all or some aspects of the services and treatments offered
- Advocating for all people with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease
- Providing leadership to combat discrimination shown to all people, in the healthcare system, media and society
- Responding to the needs of people infected with HIV by creating an advisory board, consisting of people working in the community, people from HIV/AIDS support and advocacy groups, and people living with HIV/AIDS
>Our team:
- Adult infectious disease specialist physicians
- Pediatric infectious disease specialist physicians
- Obstetrics/gynecology physicians with HIV expertise
- Psychiatrists
- Addictions counsellor
- Pharmacists
- Social worker
- Clinic nurse
- Nurse clinician
- Nurse practitioners
- Dietitian
- Outreach social worker
- Outreach nurse
- Researchers
- Clinic aide
- Lab technician
- Booking clerks
- Health records technician
- Unit clerk
On our busier clinic days, BC Women's Hospital volunteers may come to clinic to help with child-minding.
University of British Columbia
The Oak Tree Clinic is affiliated with the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a clinical teaching site for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Students from the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Nutrition and Social Work are offered clinical rotations with the various specialists in the clinic. The clinic offers students a unique experience using multidisciplinary team approach to HIV/AIDS care.
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital
The clinic is associated with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital. All the HIV medications (aside from some medications not yet licensed in Canada but used in research studies) are supplied through the Centre for Excellence Drug Program. Drs. Burdge, Forbes and Money all sit on the Centre for Excellence Therapeutic Guideline Committee, and have developed the Provincial Guidelines for the Care of Women, Pregnant Women, and Children.
Our community partners
The Oak Tree Clinic has always had an active community based advisory committee. This committee was instrumental in obtaining funding for the program in 1994, and in helping to shape our philosophy and approach. We continue to have close working relationships with the Positive Women's Network, Drug and Alcohol Meeting Support for Women, Sheway, Downtown Community Health Clinic, Vancouver Native Health Society, Healing Our Spirit, the STD outreach nurses, and variety of other agencies.
Funding partners
The clinic welcomes donations for additional support. You can receive more information about the hospital foundations and the opportunity for contributing to the Oak Tree Clinic Program at BC Women's Health Foundation.
