Posted On: Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
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Posted On: Friday, October 5th, 2012
Join us for a rapporteur and learning exchange event following the Canadian Association of Gerontology Conference, Aging in a Changing World. At the conference, there will be several sessions on HIV & aging, and our friends from the Canadian Working Group on HIV & Rehabilitation (CWHGR) will be in attendance. At this informal event, CWHGR will… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Thanks to everyone who completed the on-line mental health survey over the past several weeks. Your input was very helpful in determining the most relevant and timely topics to further develop. Given that our resources are limited, we wanted to prioritize the topics that you’ve identified over the past several years as topic areas in… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, October 1st, 2012
Since the introduction of the STOP HIV/AIDS initiative in British Columbia, with its goal to increase HIV screening in the province, there have been many changes to HIV testing in British Columbia. For the PAN 2012 Fall meetings, we conducted an environmental scan, documenting the many shifts that are underway, with regards to testing guidelines,… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
The Momentum Health Study is a new sexual health study for gay, bi and other men who have sex with men in the Greater Vancouver area coordinated by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, in clinical partnership with the Vancouver Coastal Health STOP HIV/AIDS Team and supported by the Health Initiative for Men, YouthCO… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Happy Fall! I know. Is anyone actually really ready for summer’s end? I am certainly not, but the months on the calendar do keep slipping by and despite my desire to freeze frame August- alas, here we are! Truth be told, I am actually excited about September and the PAN gathering at the end of… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Valerie has worked on various projects with PAN. Valerie Nicholson is a grandmother, mother, and proud resident of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). She is the co-founder of the Harvest Organic Coop, a fruit and veggie coop for people with compromised immune systems, those affected and infected, housed (gratefully!) at AIDS Vancouver. She is also a… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, August 30th, 2012
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives for 18 minutes. Elizabeth Pisani shares her opinion of the myriad of inconsistencies in today’s political systems that may prevent the effective fighting of the spread… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, August 20th, 2012
Knowledge mobilization. Knowledge transfer. Knowledge translation. Knowledge exchange. These are some of the buzzwords that have remained popular in Canadian research circles over the past few years as the goal of making sure that research findings get “put to work” has been high on the lists of research funders, universities, and community stakeholders alike. Knowledge… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
The international AIDS conference was hosted in Washington DC last week and for those who were unable to be there and soak it all up, here are some videos and articles that offer some perspective on the research and social activism at AIDS 2012. Watch hightlights or watch it all through these two sites: Highlights… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Andrew has worked on various projects with PAN. Andrew Beckerman is a retired architect who lives in Victoria, BC, and has been HIV+ since 1980. He credits being alive today to his participation in the first Crixivan® trial. He has served on various Boards. Andrew came to Canada from the US where he was engaged… Read more »
Posted On: Friday, July 20th, 2012
Collaboration is one of those words that certainly gets thrown around a lot in both community work and in the field of community based research. But what does it mean to truly collaborate? What is a collaborator? For the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the main source of funding for most HIV-related CBR in… Read more »
