Category: Advocacy, Policy, Public Health

Zero Discrimination in Health Care Settings: Call for submissions of country case studies

Posted On: Monday, September 25th, 2017

Discrimination in health care settings creates barriers to reaching the prevention and 90-90-90 targets. UNAIDS is seeking examples of good practice in reducing all forms of discrimination in health care settings. Submissions will provide an opportunity to review best practices in reducing discrimination and to inform the Thematic Segment background note and discussions. Specifically, UNAIDS… Read more »

PAN signs on to HCV Manifesto

Posted On: Monday, September 25th, 2017

PAN has signed on to the the HCV Manifesto, which brings awareness to the problems widely faced by HCV+ people, and how they may be solved. Similar to the principles of Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV and Nothing About Us Without Us principles supported by people who use drugs, the HCV Manifesto states:… Read more »

Substance Use News September 2017

Posted On: Saturday, September 23rd, 2017

Hope for Healing: Treatment Close to Home Residents of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, had to travel hundreds of miles from home to enter treatment programs for substance use problems, and being so far from home posed challenges for people. There are no plans to develop a permanent program in the near future, so what’s the answer?… Read more »

Hepatitis C News

Posted On: Friday, September 22nd, 2017

  Treatment Successes It’s getting better: AIDS Map’s Roger Pebody wrote about findings from here in BC that show that  among the populations of people with HCV, an analysis found that older people, those co-infected with HIV, those who have cirrhosis and those who use drugs are more likely to receive direct-acting antiviral HCV treatment… Read more »

Advocacy and Public Health Headlines

Posted On: Monday, September 18th, 2017

Opioid Stats Needed for Indigenous Communities Missing from information and discussion on the national opioid crisis is specific data on how the crisis is affecting people of Indigenous heritage. Earlier this summer, BC’s First Nations Health Authority produced Overdose Data and First Nations in BC: Preliminary Findings, but this is hardly the case across the… Read more »

PAN endorses Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) consensus statement. You should too!

Posted On: Friday, September 8th, 2017

People living with HIV can feel confident that if they have a sustained undetectable viral load, they will not pass on HIV to their sexual partners.  For some it seems like a bold statement, but the science is clear. In June, the PAN Board of Directors passed a unanimous motion to join the Prevention Access… Read more »

Interpreting the Coroner’s Overdose Reports: A Personal Perspective (Part 2)

Posted On: Thursday, September 7th, 2017

Part 2: Impact of Overdose Care on Frontline Peers Over the past several months, several of PAN’s staff have been sitting down to consult with Candice Norris about her observations and experiences with the opioid overdose public health emergency. Candice is an Aboriginal woman from the Cree/Dene nation who has been in recovery from substance… Read more »

Suicide Prevention Training for Queer Service Providers & Allies

Posted On: Thursday, September 7th, 2017

From the Crisis Centre   Join us in Building a Suicide-Safer Queer Community! “We know that as many as 1 in 5 LGBT people have attempted suicide,” says Dr. Travis Salway, a post-doctoral fellow with the BC Centre for Disease Control/UBC School of Population and Public Health. “Thus it is essential to build a network… Read more »

Interpreting the Coroner’s Overdose Reports: A Personal Perspective (Part 1)

Posted On: Tuesday, September 5th, 2017

Part 1: The Who, What and How of Drug Use that Impact Overdose Outcomes Over the past several months, several of PAN’s staff have been sitting down to consult with Candice Norris about her observations and experiences with the opioid overdose public health emergency. Candice is an Aboriginal woman from the Cree/Dene nation who has… Read more »