Category: Research

Gayle Restall, Associate Professor at the College of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba has contacted PAN to ask for assistance in distributing a request for research participation in a survey about HIV and Workplace Disclosure. The study has been approved by the Health Research Ethics Board at… Read more »

Wednesday May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. It’s a worldwide day to celebrate diverse genders and sexualities and note the tensions between living proudly and living with the stigma that many LGBTQ people face. Its aim is “to draw the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public and… Read more »

Substance Use News: April

BC’s Public Health Crisis at One Year: The Overdose Epidemic The provincial government has released a report following up on Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall’s announcement of a public health crisis on April 14, 2016. BC’s Opioid Overdose Response: One-Year Update (April 13, 2017)  summarizes efforts in seven key areas: Immediate response to an… Read more »

UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Seeks Submissions

Call for Submissions: Case Studies for the 40th PCB Thematic Segment on HIV Prevention 2020: A global partnership for delivery The UNAIDS PCB NGO Delegation is seeking submissions from communities and civil society organizations that will contain any of the following: 1. A description of how national programmatic prevention targets were set and what the… Read more »

REACH and Universities Without Walls have launched a Call for Applicants to REACH/UWW Intervention Research Fellowships 2017-2018. We hope to have up to 6 amazing intervention researchers and projects embedded in policy, clinical or nonprofit environments from across Canada. 2017 Training Fellowships A new learning and funding opportunity for Masters and PhD degree students or… Read more »

At the PAN Fall Conference, we learned from Dr. Lianping (Mint) Ti about short-course direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs for hepatitis C (HCV). These well-tolerated drugs have demonstrated cure rates of 95% and have been available in British Columbia (BC) since 2014, but their dispensation has been limited to individuals with advanced liver disease due to… Read more »

Background British Columbia (BC) is currently experiencing a significant increase in syphilis cases, with infectious syphilis reaching unprecedented rates. Though there has been a slow and steady increase year over year since the early 2000s, a much more significant increase was noted in 2015, with 40% more cases seen compared to 2014. For 2016, the… Read more »

Survey – Bloodlines Magazine Issue #15

Red Road HIV/AIDS Network is requesting your participation in a brief survey to let us know what you thought about Issue #15 of Bloodlines Magazine:http://www.red-road.org/downloads/Bloodlines_15.pdf.  Bloodlines is a full colour magazine featuring Aboriginal Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (APHA). This magazine offers a forum in which APHAs can share their personal experiences, discuss issues affecting them,… Read more »

Community Action Initiative – 2017 MHSU Survey

Community Action Initiative is inviting all community organizations in BC that provide some form of mental health and / or substance use services to participate in our new 2017 Community Mental Health and Substance Use Sector Survey. We need your help to build upon results from the 2016 survey (results are available here). Findings from… Read more »

Participate in Pivot’s Project Inclusion

  Welcome to Project Inclusion – A human rights approach to HIV, HCV and overdose prevention! At Project Inclusion we believe that stigma and exclusion are not inevitable. One key way to prevent HIV, Hepatitis C and overdose is to advance the human rights of people who have been excluded or stigmatized in society as a result of homelessness,… Read more »

BCCDC Survey on the Development of Online HCV Course

The BCCDC education team is working on the development of an HCV online course for BC health and social care providers. They invite you to complete a 5 minute survey to: ·         help us assess the demand for an online hepatitis C (HCV) course for health and social care providers in BC ·         identify and… Read more »