Category: Advocacy, Policy, Public Health

Job posting: Senior Manager, AVI (Victoria office)

Location: Victoria office AVI Health & Community Services (AVI) is a multi-disciplinary community-based organization, providing HIV, hepatitis C, substance use and mental health services across Vancouver Island. We work within a social justice and health promotion framework – ensuring equity and access to services for all – and from a harm reduction perspective, understanding that clients… Read more »

BC overdose prevention technology funding initiative

From BC Non-Profit Housing Association A new $1-million initiative, administered by BC Non-Profit Housing Association and funded by BC Housing, aims to help by funding overdose prevention devices in eligible supportive housing buildings, emergency shelters and transition houses across the province to supplement the housing societies’ overdose prevention and response strategies. Through the initiative, housing… Read more »

Updated with on-demand recording   Meet the team, see the vision, and learn how BC’s new STBBI dashboard can support your work. The dashboard team includes community members and BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) staff. This webinar shares their vision for a tool that is easy to use and understand. The dashboard information… Read more »

Intended Audience: Healthcare professionals looking for a syphilis public education resource Community educators looking for a syphilis community education resource People who are sexually active with multiple partners who want to learn more about syphilis People in general who want to learn more about syphilis This blog series specifically focused on periods of time for… Read more »

  One of the most important phases of research is knowledge translation, which is about all the steps taken to create awareness of research activities and findings so they can be put into practice by decision-makers, professionals, and the public. Knowledge translation can be viewed as a mechanism for change. If research information can be… Read more »

From the BC Viral Hepatitis Elimination Roadmap team     The BC Viral Hepatitis Elimination Roadmap Service Mapping Survey has now launched. We are collecting responses to this survey until April 8th, 2024, so please complete it as soon as possible, and share this invitation with anyone else who you think may wish to complete it.  Our ask… Read more »

Location: AVI Comox Valley office AVI Health & Community Services (AVI) is a multi‐disciplinary community based organization providing HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction and mental health services on Vancouver Island. AVI works within a social justice and health promotion framework to ensure equity and access to services for all. In the North Island, AVI provide services in… Read more »

Blog Series Part 2: Key Periods for Treating Syphilis

  Intended Audience: Healthcare professionals looking for a syphilis public education resource Community educators looking for a syphilis community education resource People who are sexually active with multiple partners who want to learn more about syphilis People in general who want to learn more about syphilis In this second blog post of the series, we… Read more »

Two-Spirit Awareness and Celebration Day!

This year’s theme is “Bringing sexuality back into our medicine wheel.” We will be inviting the community to join us in an open-dialogue session to celebrate and bring awareness to our sexuality as Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ people. This event will highlight and centre Two-Spirit excellence, but ALL ARE WELCOME to join us in… Read more »

Human Resources Manager – Comox Valley and Campbell River AVI Health & Community Services (AVI) is a multi‐disciplinary community-based organization providing HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction and mental health services on Vancouver Island. AVI works within a social justice and health promotion framework to ensure equity and access to services for all. In the North Island,… Read more »

Job posting: Operations Manager, AVI (Comox Valley office)

Operations Manager- Campbell River and Comox Valley AVI Health & Community Services (AVI) is a multi‐disciplinary community-based organization providing HIV, hepatitis C, harm reduction and mental health services on Vancouver Island. AVI works within a social justice and health promotion framework to ensure equity and access to services for all. In the North Island, AVI provide… Read more »

Update September 2024: PAN was pleased to be advised that effective August 20th 2024,  Maviret Granules were included on the British Columbia PharmaCare Formulary for treatment of hep C in children. See update information in the Pharmacare newsletter, September 2024 issue.   For added information, visit BC Government Your Voice page The province of BC… Read more »