Please take a few moments to watch this great segment from Go! Vancouver, featuring John Bishop and AccolAIDS. Take a look on youtube
Video – Living with HIV on Shaw TV
Posted On: Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Posted On: Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Please take a few moments to watch this great segment from Go! Vancouver, featuring John Bishop and AccolAIDS. Take a look on youtube
Posted On: Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
The Story We Be is inviting applications for the 2014 Summer Writing Institute, taking place June – July in Vancouver, BC, Unceded Coast Salish Territories. Offering three cutting-edge writing intensives, participants from a variety of experience levels, and genres of interest, will have the opportunity to participate in a unique, rigorous, intergenerational, diverse, and intersectional… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Taking potent combination anti-HIV therapy (commonly called ART or HAART) every day, exactly as directed, is a cornerstone of improving health for HIV-positive people. Many other factors can affect health, well-being and survival of patients, and one of those factors is the quality of care that patients receive. Researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
Posted On: Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Job Opportunity The Community Connector will be responsible for recruiting, managing and supporting the Friendly Visitor Project volunteers, identifying potential clients and matching volunteers with clients. The Friendly Visitor Project is a one year initiative that will build a network of 20 LGTBQ volunteers who will support 20 isolated LGTBQ seniors. The Friendly Visitor team… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 17th, 2014
The CANARY Study is nation-wide study, led by Lynda Balneaves (UBC School of Nursing) is examining the impact of the regulatory changes on patient access to cannabis for medical purposes, as well as the impact on health outcomes and health care utilization. The study will focus on patients living with acute or chronic health conditions,… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Daily Extra By Shauna Lewis A Loving Spoonful will expand its capacity to serve those living with HIV/AIDS when the organization relocates to a larger space in spring 2014. “We are moving to a location that is twice as big, which will really enable A Loving Spoonful to expand their services and allow for future… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 17th, 2014
That awkward negotiation before imminent encounter with a sexual partner met on mobile apps, online or at a bar often includes a brief health information exchange about HIV. Health educators recommend discussing HIV status before sexual encounters. Disclosure could lead to safer sex, more relaxed rendezvous and enhanced intimacy. While in recent years having this… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Index: Basic Needs – Food, Clothing, Shelter Health- Physical Emotional, Mental Addiction & Recovery Survivor & Healing Financial & Legal & Other Print your own guides, formatted to print two double sided little booklets.
Posted On: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Position Overview: The Harm Reduction & Wellness Counsellor is responsible for delivering care and support programs to individuals impacted by HIV, Hepatitis C, and those highly vulnerable to infection due to poverty, addiction, homelessness, and incarceration including, lay counselling, accompaniments, advocacy, systems navigation, prison outreach, treatment information, accessing health services, and other support activities. This… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, April 7th, 2014
PAN member organizations are being invited to assist in recruiting participants for a Canadian study that seeks to understand the range of services that people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) are using when facing health challenges due to HIV. Knowing the range of health conditions that PHAs are living with, the types of health challenges they… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
The Momentum Health Study is looking to increase its number of HIV-positive participants. We are a sexual health study of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Greater Vancouver. Momentum aims to report new estimates of HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in… Read more »