Category: Research

5 Questions with Heather Holroyd, PAN’s Evaluation & Community Based Research Programs Contractor

Posted On: Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

Heather is a former staff member of PAN. Heather was hired as a contractor in October 2016 to support PAN’s Evaluation and Community Based Research Programs, thanks to funding from the CBR Collaborative Centre and REACH. Collaborating with PAN staff and the Peer Evaluators on the Positive Leadership Development Institute’s impact evaluation will be a… Read more »

Learning From Each Other Survey: Best Practices in Hiring and Retaining People with Episodic Conditions

Posted On: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016

Do you have an Episodic Health Condition? Participate in our Survey! People with episodic disabilities face significant employment and income support issues. Recurring periods of ill health make it difficult to work, especially full-time. Most people with episodic disabilities must rely on health and disability benefits. And due to the strict definitions and policies that… Read more »

BC Stigma Index is now Recruiting Participants

Posted On: Monday, October 31st, 2016

What does Stigma mean to you? [easy-image-collage id=19124] The BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index (the Stigma Index) is a dynamic research project in British Columbia, born out of a community-identified need to turn the tide against persistent HIV stigma and discrimination. Linked to the international HIV Stigma Index initiative, it is the first… Read more »

Positive Plus One Study Newsletter and Request for Participants

Posted On: Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

Thank you to all who have participated and/or provided support throughout recruitment for the Positive Plus One study. We are writing in order to provide you with a newsletter that summarizes our data collection, preliminary results, and outlines the study’s current direction. We are starting a new push for recruitment. We plan to be in… Read more »

Survey on Oral Health and HIV

Posted On: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016

Abbas Jessani, a graduate doctorate student at UBC Dentistry is conducting an oral health needs assessment study for persons living with HIV as a part of his PhD project.  He has collaborated with UBC Dentistry to conduct a survey on un-met oral health needs of Persons Living with HIV in British Columbia. To date, we… Read more »

Positive Plus One: A research study of serodiscordant relationships

Posted On: Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

As HIV rates have stabilized, HIV-positive individuals are living longer lives. More and more people today are in relationships where only one of the two people has HIV (an HIV-serodiscordant relationship). While there has been research on living with HIV, far less is known about the issues faced by HIV-serodiscordant couples. Researchers from the Dalla… Read more »

Job Posting BC Stigma Index Peer Research Associate (PRA)

Posted On: Monday, August 8th, 2016

BC Stigma Index Peer Research Associate (PRA) Job Opportunity JOB DEFINITION: The Pacific AIDS Network (PAN) is presently in the process of hiring four to six Peer Research Associates to assists us with a community-based research project, the BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index, a dynamic research project born out of a community-identified need… Read more »

Positive Living, Positive Homes launches new website

Posted On: Thursday, June 30th, 2016

The Positive Living Positive Homes research team is pleased to announce the launch of our new study website, www.plphstudy.ca. The website will inform community members about PLPH’s progress and findings. Highlights include a page on on using visual methods, which allows visitors to engage with our “mapping home” activity, and a resources page, which has… Read more »

CATIE News – Strategies for improving the hepatitis C care continuum for people who inject drugs

Posted On: Monday, June 27th, 2016

Hepatitis C treatment has changed dramatically in the past few years, with the development of medications that have cure rates of 90% and greater, few side effects and short durations, often just a few months. While these new medications are an exciting improvement, only a small percentage of people who inject drugs are able to… Read more »

CAAN Survey – Sharing Our Wisdom: A Gender Diverse Project with a focus on Trans

Posted On: Friday, May 20th, 2016

The Project Background: Our project is intended to learn more about how Indigenous Trans/ Gender Diverse people who are living with or affected by HIV/HCV and co-infection are impacted and what this means in terms of providing appropriate supports and services. We also want to identify important features and provide communities with Indigenous-specific recommended solutions… Read more »