Posted On: Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
Excerpt, via Smart Sex Resource The Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre at the UBC School of Nursing collaborated with the Centre of Innovative Health in the United States to research STI risk and prevention knowledge among young women. Online focus groups were conducted with 160 lesbian and bisexual teen girls from across the United States,… Read more »
Posted On: Saturday, April 21st, 2018
The 5th iteration of Tools for Community-Based Research – the HIV Stigma edition is now open for registration. See details of the course offered through Universities Without Walls. We have a limited number of scholarships for community leaders with demonstrated work in health research. If you’ve like to apply, please send the following to Francisco… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 12th, 2018
From CBRC For nearly 20 years, the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) has been conducting community-based research on the health of gay, bi, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM). We are committed to sharing our findings with our research partners and participants. We have the stats and we’d like to share them with… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 12th, 2018
How’s your Head? Sexual Identity, Mental Health and Substance Use Call for Submissions: Oral Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Videos, Roundtables, Readings Summit Date: November 8-10 Location: Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC Loneliness, anxiety and depression are no strangers to those of us who have been denied equal status in society. Growing… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
PAN is supporting the facilitation of one of the CAHR conference ancillary events, The BC Community-Based Research Quarterly Meeting. This event is open to conference registrants and people who aren’t attending the CAHR conference but are interested in community-based research. The BC Community-Based Research Meetings (referred to as the CBR Quarterly Meetings) serve as a community of practice that… Read more »
Posted On: Saturday, March 24th, 2018
As many of you know, the Positive Living, Positive Homes (PLPH) study has been actively sharing its findings in its final research phases. One of the ways we have been sharing findings is through holding gatherings at various community-based organizations that helped and supported us throughout the study. We recruited participants living with HIV at these… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, March 16th, 2018
This survey is designed for individuals living with HIV/HCV/STBBIs in Canada who have participated in or may be interested in accessing rehabilitation and wellness services/programs at community-based HIV organizations. Realize would love to hear about your experiences, preferences and needs accessing these services and programs at community-based HIV/HCV/STBBI organizations. This anonymous survey will help Realize… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Substance Use News, March Those that live or work in the Vancouver area have a variety of drug checking options available to them in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). The added good news is that the province has made drug checking available beyond the DTES too. Drug checking options in the Downtown Eastside In late… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, March 2nd, 2018
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the project, Making It Work (MIW) is an Indigenous-focused, community-based research project in British Columbia co-led by PAN and the AHA Centre at the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN). It’s been several years in development, born out of conversations within the community when looking at the… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, March 2nd, 2018
BC patients and primary care providers invited to shape future research Have you ever been to a family doctor or a walk-in clinic in BC? If so, the British Columbia Primary Health Care Research Network (BC-PHCRN) would like to hear from you. This applies to caregivers too! The PREFeR (PRioritiEs For Research) Project is carrying out… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, March 2nd, 2018
What is LHIVE Healthy? LHIVE Healthy is web-based research conducted across Canada. It aims to evaluate if tailored web-based interventions are effective to help people living with HIV (PLHIV) make healthy choices like smoke less, do more physical activity and eat better. Making such choices helps to reduce the risk of developing other diseases… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, March 1st, 2018
The Positive Living, Positive Homes study is now in its final phases of knowledge sharing! Over the next several weeks, look on the PAN website and in your PAN e-news for findings from this innovative, community-based research study that’s been active in Prince George, Kamloops, and Greater Vancouver since 2015. Today we present the “data… Read more »
