Category: PAN News and Events

Job Posting: Human Rights Education Project – Peer Coordinator, Pacific AIDS Network

Posted On: Friday, March 15th, 2019

Position: Peer Coordinator Status: Part time, 20 hours per week Time Period: 1-year contract position Remuneration:  $25,000 over contract term plus competitive benefits package Location: Flexible Reporting to: Manager of Human Rights Project Closing Date for Applications:  Friday, March 29, 2019. Please submit your cover letter and CV to [email protected]   Summary of the position: The Peer Coordinator will be responsible for… Read more »

Emergency Preparedness Resources

Posted On: Monday, March 11th, 2019

Does your organization have emergency plans in place? If so, great, and if not, you may wish to look at some of the resources below. Whether it is floods, wildfires, earthquakes or tsunamis, severe weather and power outages, natural and unnatural events can severely impact our organizations and personal lives, and can strike at any… Read more »

PAN’s Checklist: What needs to be in place to provide adequate support to peer researchers?

Posted On: Monday, March 4th, 2019

Background:In 2015, PAN began the BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index (BC Stigma Index), a community-based research (CBR) study to document the experiences of stigma and discrimination from the perspective of people living with HIV (PLHIV). One of the objectives of this study was to “support PLHIV to be Stigma Index leaders & build… Read more »

The U = U movement continues to change the global conversation around HIV, stigma, prevention and the law

Posted On: Thursday, February 21st, 2019

As many of us are now aware, U=U (Undetectable Equals Untransmittable), means that people living with HIV (PLHIV) can feel confident that, if they have a sustained undetectable viral load for at least six months, they will not pass on HIV to their sexual partners. Treatment as Prevention®, pioneered by the BC-CfE in 2006, formed… Read more »

Substance Use News: Escalating BC’s Response to the Overdose Emergency

Posted On: Friday, February 15th, 2019

The BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions recently released a new report,  Escalating BC’s Response to the Overdose Emergency.   Excerpt from the Executive Summary:  The Province of British Columbia continues to respond to a public health emergency that is claiming four lives every day. The province continues to experience the highest number of overdose deaths… Read more »

Webinar: Options for Sexual Health: Partners for Impact

Posted On: Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

  Date: Tuesday March 5, 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time Join Michelle Fortin and Nicole Pasquino of Options for Sexual Health to hear how their work can support PAN members in frontline services, as well as provide professional development for staff and volunteers. Options for Sexual Health provides BC communities with comprehensive sexual health… Read more »

Building Evaluation Capacity, Improving Community-Based HIV and Hepatitis C Services

Posted On: Saturday, January 26th, 2019

PAN Research and Evaluation programs are made possible through PAN’s partnership with the CIHR Centre for REACH in HIV/AIDS, and the CIHR CBR Collaborative (A Program of REACH). The following post is part of a collection of Regional Accomplishment and Change Stories that were originally published on the REACH site to reflect on work during the REACH 2.0 funding period…. Read more »

Webinar: Using Collective Impact to Strengthen Services for Women

Posted On: Monday, January 21st, 2019

  Shared Vision; Regional Action: Using Collective Impact to Strengthen Services for Women Date: Wednesday February 27, 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time Join Molly Bannerman, Provincial Director  of the Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative (WHAI) in Ontario as she shares the WHAI’s work to strengthen communities. The WHAI builds capacity in organizations that provide services… Read more »

5 Questions with Joanna Tulloch, MPH Practicum Student

Posted On: Monday, January 21st, 2019

Joanna is a former practicum student with PAN. Joanna has been a nurse since 2009 and has spent the majority of her career living and working in Whitehorse, Yukon. Joanna is currently working on her second year of the Master of Public Health program at the University of Victoria and will be completing a practicum… Read more »

Update on The Push to End Unjust HIV Prosecutions in BC

Posted On: Friday, January 18th, 2019

Since the then federal Minister of Justice’s Jody Wilson-Raybould’s World AIDS Day announcement, advocacy has continued apace with BC’s Attorney General David Eby – with strong efforts by Positive Living BC, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation and PAN, to name but a few. There was definitely much to be encouraged by… Read more »

Substance Use News January: Directions for 2019

Posted On: Friday, January 4th, 2019

BC remains at the forefront of the Canada’s opioid crisis. What directions might the response take in 2019? Here are some recent pieces marking developments in approaches and continued harm reduction. Public Health and Advocacy City of Vancouver Opioid Emergency Task Force The City of Vancouver launched an Opioid Emergency Task Force in mid-November 2018,… Read more »

Job Posting: Human Rights Education Project – Project Manager & Community Educator

Posted On: Friday, December 21st, 2018

Job Description Position: Project Manager & Community Educator Status: 0.75 FTE Time Period: 1-year contract position Remuneration: $52,000 to $57,000 plus benefits Location: Flexible Reporting to: Director of Program Development   Summary of the position: The Project Manager & Community Educator will be responsible for managing all aspects of the Human Rights Education Project (HREP)…. Read more »