Category: PAN News and Events

BC Community-Based Research Group to Host Ancillary Event at CAHR

Posted On: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

PAN is supporting the facilitation of one of the CAHR conference ancillary events, The BC Community-Based Research Quarterly Meeting. This event is  open to conference registrants and people who aren’t attending the CAHR conference but are interested in community-based research.  The BC Community-Based Research Meetings (referred to as the CBR Quarterly Meetings) serve as a community of practice that… Read more »

Pets a Key to Health, Positive Living Positive Home Study Confirms

Posted On: Saturday, March 24th, 2018

  As many of you know, the Positive Living, Positive Homes (PLPH) study has been actively sharing its findings in its final research phases. One of the ways we have been sharing findings is through holding gatherings at various community-based organizations that helped and supported us throughout the study. We recruited participants living with HIV at these… Read more »

Collective Impact Network: Introducing CIN Member Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC)

Posted On: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

The Collective Impact Network (CIN) is a Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) sponsored initiative, being co-led by PAN acting as the backbone. It consists of the six PHSA-contracted agencies that are supporting the community-based response to HIV and HCV, alongside the PHSA, and including the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and BC Women’s Hospital…. Read more »

PAN’s Commitment to Respect and Response – A 10 Year PLHIV Perspective

Posted On: Friday, March 16th, 2018

This is the third in a series of monthly blog posts representing perspectives on potential governance changes at PAN. These posts represent voices across the network – staff, PAN Board members, people living with HIV, and community members – sharing their thoughts on these changes. This month we hear from Darren Lauscher, who has been… Read more »

Collective Impact Network: Introducing CIN Member Pivot

Posted On: Thursday, March 15th, 2018

The Collective Impact Network (CIN) is a Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) sponsored initiative, being co-led by PAN acting as the backbone. It consists of the six PHSA-contracted agencies that are supporting the community-based response to HIV and HCV, alongside the PHSA, and including the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and BC Women’s Hospital…. Read more »

Hepatitis C Treatment Options Expand in BC

Posted On: Thursday, March 15th, 2018

  The BC government released an announcement about hepatitis C (HCV) treatment options on Tuesday March 13. It reads, in part*: Any British Columbian living with chronic hepatitis C now is able to access treatment, regardless of the severity of their disease, Health Minister Adrian Dix announced today. In addition to expanding coverage to all… Read more »

Collective Impact Network: Introducing CIN Member YouthCO

Posted On: Thursday, March 8th, 2018

The Collective Impact Network (CIN) is a Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) sponsored initiative, being co-led by PAN acting as the backbone. It consists of the six PHSA-contracted agencies that are supporting the community-based response to HIV and HCV, alongside the PHSA, and including the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and BC Women’s Hospital…. Read more »

Making It Work Project Update

Posted On: Friday, March 2nd, 2018

  For those of you who are unfamiliar with the project, Making It Work (MIW) is an Indigenous-focused, community-based research project in British Columbia co-led by PAN and the AHA Centre at the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN). It’s been several years in development, born out of conversations within the community when looking at the… Read more »

Resources to Learn About and Fight Stigma

Posted On: Friday, March 2nd, 2018

As those living with HIV and /or working in the HIV and HCV communities know, stigma remains a large and challenging issue. PAN’s BC People Living with Stigma Index Project is currently in the data analysis phase and the reality of stigma experienced by people in BC is clear. Even as we are almost 40… Read more »

Presenting Community Research with Data Placemats

Posted On: Thursday, March 1st, 2018

The Positive Living, Positive Homes study is now in its final phases of knowledge sharing! Over the next several weeks, look on the PAN website and in your PAN e-news for findings from this innovative, community-based research study that’s been active in Prince George, Kamloops, and Greater Vancouver since 2015. Today we present the “data… Read more »

Webinar: Drug Substitution Therapies and Community Health

Posted On: Friday, February 16th, 2018

The overdose crisis continues unabated in BC, a tragedy that continues to unfold. Meet two people at the front lines of this epidemic: Dr. Christy Sutherland and Wendy Stevens.  They’ll present information on the use of naloxone and opioid substitution therapies as well as the importance of wraparound care and community development. Presenters: Dr. Christy… Read more »