Category: Research

Key Findings on Sexual Health and STBBI of Street Youth Now Available

Posted On: Monday, August 21st, 2017

Y-track Phase 6 is now live on Canada.ca Y-Track (formerly E-SYS, Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth) is an enhanced surveillance system that monitors rates of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) as well as the associated risk behaviours in the Canadian street youth population. Information is collected through cross-sectional surveys conducted periodically at sentinel… Read more »

Positive Plus One Study Still Recruiting

Posted On: Friday, August 4th, 2017

Still looking for participants!  Researchers from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, in collaboration with physicians and AIDS Service organizations from across the country, are conducting a national study of people in serodiscordant relationships. As HIV rates have stabilized, HIV-positive individuals are living longer lives. More and more people today are in relationships where only… Read more »

2017 UWW/REACH 2.0 Fellowship Awards Announced

Posted On: Friday, August 4th, 2017

Universities without Walls (fondly referred to as UWW) provides distance education “that moves people and HIV research evidence into practice, and practice into research.” Projects are community-based enquiry to benefit community outcomes. UWW principles include openness, collaboration, plain language, and making research skills visible and accessible to all involved. UWW offers e-learning options you can access… Read more »

British Columbia’s findings from the Food Security Study: A briefing note and fact sheet

Posted On: Monday, July 31st, 2017

The Pacific AIDS Network is pleased to share findings from the BC component of a CIHR-funded community-based research study that investigated the impact of food insecurity on health outcomes of people living with HIV in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec. As part of the knowledge-to-action activities for this project, a briefing note and fact sheet were… Read more »

Capacity Bridging: Reciprocity at Work In Research

Posted On: Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

  Janice Duddy, PAN’s Director of Evaluation and Community-Based Research, had the opportunity to speak with Sherri Pooyak, the Community Based Research Manager with the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network/Aboriginal HIV & AIDS CBR Collaborative Centre (AHA Centre), about an interesting new idea called capacity bridging. ‘Capacity-bridging’ is an emerging term proposed by the AHA Centre… Read more »

PAN’s Members’ and Stakeholders’ Survey: A Tool for Learning, Evidence-Based Action and Accountability

Posted On: Monday, July 17th, 2017

  The Pacific AIDS Network takes evidence-based action and accountability seriously. We want to make sure we continue to learn within the organization to improve programs and practices for our members and stakeholders, as well as the people our members serve. In 2015, we developed a tool to do just that. The Members’ and Stakeholders’… Read more »

Reflections on CBR Principles: Partnerships, Mentorship and Equity

Posted On: Friday, July 7th, 2017

  The best CBR is done when community members work closely with researchers who have strong training in methodologies, and when academics work closely with community members who understand the needs/concerns of populations most affected by HIV as well as the challenges of delivering programs and services. Through this process, communities learn more about research… Read more »

CBR Collaborative Centre 2.0 and our Community-Based Research Principles

Posted On: Friday, July 7th, 2017

We are so pleased to announce that PAN was successful in our proposal to CIHR under the Collaborative Centres of HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research competition. This news means that the CIHR CBR Collaborative: A Program of REACH (CBR Collaborative 2.0) will continue and that there will be sustained regional and national support through the CBR Collaborative… Read more »

Surveying the Community Response to Overdose

Posted On: Friday, June 16th, 2017

  As is sadly evident, the overdose crisis is still going strong. The Community Action Initiative (CAI) is looking for input from people working in community-based organizations that are responding to the overdose crisis. They have developed a short survey to gather information from community based organizations that are experiencing the impact of overdose.  … Read more »

PAN Presents at CAHR 2017: PLPH’s Findings on Housing Services and Stable Housing for Health

Posted On: Friday, June 16th, 2017

Part 2 of a 2-part series   |   Read Part 1 This post is Part 2 in our two-part series related to Pacific AIDS Network’s (PAN) oral and poster presentations at this year’s Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) Conference in Montreal, QC. The first post in the series focused on Jaydee Cossar’s oral… Read more »

Data Parties: Bringing Information to Communities in Community-Based Research

Posted On: Tuesday, June 13th, 2017

You don’t often think of the words “data” and “party” in the same context, but at PAN we’re actively pursuing ways to make research exciting and relevant. To that end, we’ve now held two data parties for our community-based research study, Positive Living Positive Homes (PLPH). A “data party” is simply a gathering of people… Read more »