Category: PAN News and Events

PLDI at International AIDS Conference 2022

Calling Positive Leadership Development Institute grads! Are you coming to Montreal? Come meet us at the Global Village Saturday July 30th | Sunday July 31st | Monday August 1st 10 AM to 6 PM PLDI graduates and trainers from Quebec, British-Columbia, Ontario, New Zealand and Australia are looking forward to meeting you, as we share… Read more »

World Hepatitis Day 2022

July 28th is World World Hepatitis Day, a day to raise awareness, educate and advocate. If you have events or resources you wish to share, please let us know. This page will be updated as more information comes in.   PAN Launches Leadership Course for World Hepatitis Day There are many ways you can get… Read more »

June 30, 2022 The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, P.C., M.P. Minister of Health Health Canada Sent via email: [email protected] [email protected] Re: National Consensus Statement signed by the National Advocates group and Canada’s Community-based and human rights agencies.   Honourable Minister Duclos: Canada’s goal to end HIV as a public health threat in this country by 2030… Read more »

  Furqan Waleed is an immigrant settler who moved to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory, currently called Vancouver and the surrounding areas, in 2013. He is a recent graduate from Simon Fraser University in the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry program. Furqan’s skills are complemented by strong ties to the LGBT2SQ BIPOC communities most affected by HIV and HCV,… Read more »

5 Questions with Jennifer Demchuk, Research Manager

  What sparked your interest in working in the HIV or hepatitis C community? Throughout nearly two decades of work with social justice issues and organizations, there have been strands of HIV and hepatitis C advocacy woven through my experience both personally and professionally. I had a basic understanding of some of the ongoing challenges… Read more »

On June 6, Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) ⎯ with the support of PAN and other community organizations ⎯ sent the letter below to Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, requesting a meeting and calling for the immediate creation of emergency financial and housing supports and wrap-around services for people with confirmed or suspected monkeypox infection. As… Read more »

Are you a community researcher or peer researcher living with HIV? We are conducting focus groups to better understand how COVID-19 has impacted your life and community-based research (CBR) employment experiences. We want to hear from people whose employment as peer researchers has been positively or negatively impacted, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic…. Read more »

  For the last 15 years, funding for HIV has stagnated at around $73 million per year. This falls far short of the value recommended by the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Health—first in 2003, and again in 2019. This group, made up of MPs from all the political parties, has now twice recommended… Read more »