Posted On: Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
Status: Number of hours/week is flexible and will be decided on with the right candidate, at a minimum the position would be 0.5 FTE but would consider additional FTEs depending on the candidate Time Period: Position is available immediately – for one year, with possibility of extension, FTE for a new employment agreement would be… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, November 23rd, 2020
The Digital Sexual Health Initiative (DiSHI) describes themselves as “a group of researchers, program leaders, and policy-makers that have been working together since 2009 on studies about the individual, system and population impact of online and other digital public health interventions[.]” (DiSHI, 2020). DiSHI has shared a new resource – a report sharing preliminary results… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
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Posted On: Friday, November 13th, 2020
Posted On: Friday, November 13th, 2020
If you have any questions or would like to hear more, please contact Brittany Barker at [email protected] or 778-996-0922
Posted On: Monday, November 9th, 2020
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) wants to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to and delivery of services to prevent and treat sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) including harm reduction services. If your organization directly provides STBBI prevention, testing, treatment services, or harm reduction services in Canada, please… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, November 6th, 2020
Exciting news! Health Canada has provided final approval of Canada’s first HIV self-test on November 3, 2020. You can read key messages related to this announcement from REACH Nexus here. This announcement marks a critical step to ending the HIV epidemic in Canada. HIV self-testing is expected to provide greater access to testing as Canadians will now be able to self-administer the HIV test on their own and where they feel most comfortable. This is… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, November 5th, 2020
A new resource from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), developed by Harlan Pruden (who is nēhiyo/First Nations Cree and works as an Educator with the Chee Mamuk Program at BCCDC) and Travis Salway (who is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University), provides an introduction to Two-Spirit. This resource is… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, November 2nd, 2020
The People with Lived Experiences’ Strengths in the Face of Stigma project (linked to the BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index project) is looking for two community members from British Columbia to join the research team as Peer Research Associates. Are you someone with lived and living experience of HIV? Are you passionate… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, October 23rd, 2020
New testing technologies for different sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) are being developed and introduced for wide use across the country. Health Canada is expected to provide final approval for the distribution of HIV self-testing kits in the Fall of 2020. HIV self-testing will enable people to collect their own samples and interpret their… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, October 19th, 2020
The Year in Review PAN’s Training and Leadership department offers in-person training events, virtual knowledge sharing and capacity building events; and a wealth of continuously updated resources via our website. As in years past, we have presented a range of in-person events. However, with the emergence of COVID-19, we had to reshape the events… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, October 19th, 2020
The Year in Review This year has been a busy one for the Community-Based Research (CBR) Department at PAN! We currently support three signature CBR projects – the BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index, Making it Work, and Positive Living, Positive Homes. We also support capacity-building relating to CBR with our members and allies… Read more »
