Your Health, Our Commitment The pandemic severely worsened existing Your Health, Our Commitment is about our inequities for people already made vulnerable due commitment to proactive population health to systemic barriers and determinants of health initiatives for people across British Columbia. such as poverty, colonialism, and criminalization. Through this campaign, we hope to strengthen It exposed the gaps, but it also showed us the the public health system so that it will be better opportunity to reinforce a well-funded, proactive, equipped and able to respond to current and preventative public health system, and to prioritize emerging threats to our health, keep people safe, and strengthen that system so that we can provide promote positive well-being, advance equity, and better public health solutions, and demonstrate foster healthier communities. why public health matters for the well-being of everyone. Project Spotlight: Test, Link, Call Test, Link, Call is an innovative project our Foundation has been supporting for a number of years. It is led by Dr So昀椀a Bartlett, Interim Scienti昀椀c Director Clinical, Prevention Services at the BCCDC. This initiative supports people with chronic hepatitis B and C, HIV, and syphilis by increasing their access to health and social services. It focuses on support for equity- deserving populations, including people who experience criminalization, stigma, racism, or other determinants of health. As inequities are increasingly driven by digital Pictured here are Trey Helten and Smokey-Devil, local determinants of health, for people without access graf昀椀ti artists, and some of the team members including Dr So昀椀a Bartlett, and Pam Young from Unlocking the Gates. to the internet or a phone, healthcare and other social services have become even more dif昀椀cult to access. This program provides participants with Test, Link, Call’s success to date has proven a cell phone and a six-month plan, and support it has the potential to change the current from peers with lived experience. According to trajectory of these diseases and recent data, the program is currently operating begin to reverse years of chronic with over 90% of participants with HCV enrolled underinvestment in care in treatment, which is more than twice as high as and treatment. rates usually achieved in this population. Not only has Test, Link, Call increased the “I think it’s big what you are doing by uptake of dedicated care and treatment for the o昀昀ering that device because populations served, it also saves money for the it shows that a) you care and healthcare system, by testing and treating people b) that there is a treatment out before they require hospitalization. Dr Bartlett there that is clearly close to 100% estimates a savings of $5,961 per participant, e昀昀ective. It gives people inspiration compared to the program cost of just over to follow through with it. It’s a two-way $1,000 per participant. street right? You trust us by giving these phones out before we begin the treatment.” 7 Annual Report 2023-2024 — Test, Link, Call Participant