Category: Advocacy, Policy, Public Health

Beyond Blame2021: Challenging Criminalization for HIV Justice Worldwide

Posted On: Monday, November 8th, 2021

From HIV Justice Network Beyond Blame, our flagship meeting for activists, human rights defenders, criminal legal system and public health system actors, healthcare professionals, researchers, and anyone else working to end HIV criminalization, is returning for a special eve-of-World AIDS Day edition. Following the success of last year’s Beyond Blame @ HIV2020, which was reimagined… Read more »

Substance Use News, October 2021

Posted On: Monday, November 1st, 2021

Substance Use News provides a snapshot of news and resources for those working in harm reduction. We share pieces on the social, medical and political responses to the opioid crisis, from advocacy to welcome change. With the added layer of the coronavirus/COVID-19 public health constraints, those working in harm reduction have heightened concerns about how to… Read more »

Registration is open for PAN’s Positive Leadership Development Institute Online Core Training

Posted On: Monday, October 25th, 2021

Get ready for the next Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) Online Core Training! We encourage you to share this post with your Peers, Support Workers, Educators, Case Managers and Peer Navigators to communicate this leadership opportunity to People Living with HIV. This training is offered at no cost to participants.   (Funding for this program is… Read more »

Real Talk with Realize: LatinX and Pandemics

Posted On: Friday, October 22nd, 2021

  Real Talk with Realize Virtual Town Hall Series Latinx & Pandemics: Canadian Spanglish Perspectives (on the occasion of Latin American Heritage Month) Date: October 28, 2021 Time: 10-11:30 AM Pacific time Moderator: Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco PhD, Assistant Professor, Learning Innovation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto During the Real Talk, Francisco and panelists will discuss being… Read more »

New Provincial Health Order regarding healthcare and community care services

Posted On: Friday, October 22nd, 2021

The Hospital and Community (Health care and other services) COVID-19 Vaccination Status Information and Preventive Measures order was released October 21 and outlines how people will need to share their vaccination status in order to continue in their work and/or their employment. These pieces from the order note the locations and the people this order… Read more »

Webinar: Caught in the Carceral Web: Anti-Trafficking Laws and Policies and their Impact on Migrant Sex Workers

Posted On: Monday, October 18th, 2021

Date: October 25, 2021 Time: 12 noon Pacific time Join the HIV Legal Network’s Co-Executive Director Sandra Ka Hon Chu and others as they launch their paper on migrant sex work and the ineffectiveness and harm of anti-human trafficking laws in addressing exploitation. Written with Elene Lam of Butterfly, Judy Fudge from McMaster University, and… Read more »

Action Hepatitis Canada Invites You to Connect

Posted On: Friday, October 15th, 2021

Action Hepatitis Canada says that invitations to present about their Progress Report continue to come in. They have shared the Progress Report at the PAHO Meeting of the World Hepatitis Alliance. They will  present at the ECHO+ Annual Liver Conference in Alberta on October 23, and are preparing for a meeting with an Assistant Deputy… Read more »

The Year in Review, 2020-21

Posted On: Thursday, October 14th, 2021

  Message from PAN Leadership   The theme of this year’s PAN annual report is Doubling Down in Dual Public Health Emergencies.  When talking about the theme for this year’s report and our upcoming AGM. (Register now), we wanted to convey both the challenges facing our sector and communities, but also the strength and resilience of the… Read more »

Community Scholarships for attending the Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH 2021)

Posted On: Sunday, October 10th, 2021

  The HIV-HCV Knowledge to Action (K2A) program is offering Community Registration Scholarships for free attendance (virtual or in-person) to this year’s Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH 2021). These scholarships are intended to encourage the participation of people with lived experience (HIV and hepatitis C, as well as people working in Community-Based Organizations whose… Read more »

Open Letter to the ‘new’ Government-Demanding action

Posted On: Sunday, October 10th, 2021

Dear Colleagues, First and foremost, we would like to thank you for signing onto our call for drug decriminalization in Canada last year. Since then, several jurisdictions have been working on local requests for decriminalization and the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs launched an historic lawsuit challenging Canada’s punitive drug laws. It is… Read more »

Substance Use News, September 2021

Posted On: Monday, October 4th, 2021

  Substance Use News provides a snapshot of news and resources for those working in harm reduction. We share pieces on the social, medical and political responses to the opioid crisis, from advocacy to welcome change. With the added layer of the coronavirus/COVID-19 public health constraints, those working in harm reduction have heightened concerns about how… Read more »

CCRHC community consultation and upcoming workshops

Posted On: Friday, October 1st, 2021

  Via the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization  Earlier this year, the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization (CCRHC) launched a community consultation regarding proposed Criminal Code reforms to limit HIV criminalization. If you have not already done so, please take the survey today! The consultation will close on October 22nd. In addition, there are three upcoming consultation… Read more »