Posted On: Wednesday, January 4th, 2017
Darcy joined PAN in the summer of 2016, as one of the new Peer Evaluators working on the PLDI Impact Evaluation team. He comes from a varied career background and is currently a licensed educator and thespian (for anyone who might recall his 2015 Fringe musical – LOCO HERO JOE). Darcy is pleased to have… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, December 16th, 2016
The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI), a three-module leadership training program led by and for people living with HIV (PLHIV), has delivered 20 sessions of leadership training to over 167 participants in BC since 2009, when PAN’s partnership with the Ontario AIDS Network was established. The purpose of this highly-valued series of three- and four-day… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
On November 2, 2016 Dr. Mark Tyndall, Executive Medical Director of the BC Centre for Disease Control, gave a presentation at AIDS Vancouver Island’s Annual General Meeting outlining the facts about supervised injection sites and what they mean to our communities. His presentation was called Moving Forward with Supervised Injection Sites … Busting the Myths and… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, December 12th, 2016
How could the response to STBBI in Canada be strengthened? We want to hear from you! The Public Health Agency of Canada would like to invite you to complete the following online questionnaire, on potential concrete actions and promising practices to address sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBI) in Canada. This questionnaire was developed… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Posted On: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Are you a researcher who conducts research about trans women’s health and/or HIV or a service provider who works with trans women affected by HIV? The Trans Priorities Project would like to hear your thoughts about research priorities and information needs around trans women and HIV. The Trans Priorities Project is a trans-led initiative to… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016
In 2013, a diverse team of community-based researchers completed the Food Security Study, which explored the relationship between food, nutrition, and health for people living with HIV in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. Recently they published postcards and fact sheets with their study findings. They also shared some of their housing-related data from BC with… Read more »
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 »
Posted On: Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
PAN has recently launched a new, online tool to support the building of shared, or common measures for community-based HIV and HCV Organizations in BC. This tool outlines a series of indicators that can be used to measure the contribution community-based HIV/HCV organizations are making to the prevention and care cascade in their region. It is hoped… Read more »
