Category: Research

Check It Out – New Resource: “Meet the Methods Series: ‘What and Who is Two-Spirit’ in Health Research”

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 »

Job posting: Data Analysis and Knowledge Translation Peer Research Associate

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 »

Check out the New Testing Technologies for STBBIs Resource Page!

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 »

2019-20 Year in Review: Training and Leadership

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 »

2019-20 Year in Review: Community-Based Research

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 »

2019-20 Year in Review: Collective Impact Network

Posted On: Monday, October 19th, 2020

The Year in Review   In the last year, through the omnipresent and work-altering impacts of COVID-19, PAN has continued to steer the ‘coordinated and effective community-based response to HIV and hepatitis C in our province’, the stated goal of the Collective Impact Network (CIN). An added uncertainty was that all the community contracts with… Read more »

2019-20 Year in Review: Evaluation

Posted On: Monday, October 19th, 2020

The Year in Review   This has been a year of growth for our evaluation work at PAN and the department continues to be very active on a number of evaluation programs, projects and fee-for-service contracts.   The CIHR Centre for REACH (REACH Nexus) One of the biggest changes over the last year has been… Read more »

The Year in Review: Message from PAN Leadership

Posted On: Friday, October 16th, 2020

Rising to the challenges of our times J. Evin Jones, Executive Director and Board Co-Chairs, Katrina Jensen and Patrick McDougall   Dear Friends, Since the time of last year’s annual report, while PAN and our member organizations have realized many successes, it has been an incredibly challenging year. The overdose crisis is worse than ever… Read more »

Space for Community Survey Wants Your Input!

Posted On: Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

The Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative asks, “Are you in a region of BC where affordability is affecting your organization or practice? Then we definitely want to hear from you!” Through the Space for Community Survey, the Social Purpose Real Estate Collaborative and Real Estate Institute of BC want your input on the the space… Read more »

Conversion Therapy Survey

Posted On: Monday, September 28th, 2020

see original post on SFU site “Conversion therapy” includes practices that try to change sexual attraction to people of the same gender (eg, felt identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, etc.) or change gender identities that are different from sex assigned at birth (eg, transgender, including non-binary). These include practices that discourage or delay the… Read more »

Community profile: trans and non-binary people

Posted On: Friday, September 25th, 2020

from CBRC Sexual minority people in Canada continue to experience greater social, economic, and health challenges when compared with their cisgender heterosexual peers. These challenges are often larger for people who are also gender minorities due to the persistence of transphobia and cisnormativity. However, limited population data exists about the experiences of trans and non-binary… Read more »

Webinar: Next-Generation Sequencing and Proviral DNA: The Future of HIV Drug Resistance Testing?

Posted On: Monday, September 21st, 2020

Date: Wednesday September 23 Time: 12 – 1:00 PM Pacific time Register online: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1443201779773579278 Presenter: Dr. Chanson Brumme, Assistant Director, Research Laboratories BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Webinar Main Objectives: • Update on recent technological advances in genotypic HIV Resistance testing • Review of the clinical relevance of low-frequency resistance mutations detected by Next-Generation Sequencing… Read more »