Positive Women’s Network: Fall 2014 edition of the HIV Trends and Women’s Sexual Health Report

Contents:

HOW PUBLIC IS OUR PUBLIC HEALTH CARE?

• B.C. doctors urge provincial ministers to take a stand on public health care
• Private Edmonton clinic blurring line between public, private health care: documents
• The problem with the “Canadian model”

 

REACTIONS TO EBOLA ECHO STIGMA OF HIV

• “History repeating itself”: AIDS activists slam Cuomo for “stigmatizing” Ebola quarantines
• They may sound like a good idea, but travel bans for Ebola won’t work
• ‘I am a Liberian, not a virus’: west Africans hit back against Ebola stigma

 

TRANS RIGHTS HINDERED BY MISINFORMATION

• Trans Bill C-279 stalled once more
• Conservative dinosaurs in Senate holding up trans rights
• 11 myths, misconceptions, and lies about gender non-conforming children

 

ELDER CARE A CONCERN FOR LGBTQ AND HIV+ PEOPLE

• Coming out all over again: Why the first gay-rights generation faces familiar challenges in old age
• The 519 launches LGBT senior care initiative
• The elder years of HIV