Category: Resources

Get your rapid tests for International Testing Week 2025

COCQ-SIDA in Quebec is coordinating International Testing Week in Canada, which will take place from November 17 to 23, 2025. They invite you to take part in this international movement by organizing activities related to testing. Whether it’s a mass testing day, a distribution of self test kits, or information booths on testing and sexual… Read more »

  In sexual health and harm reduction, grief is woven into our daily work. We experience it, we witness it, and we walk alongside our communities as they navigate it. We strive to offer compassion and care to others—but how often do we pause to offer the same to ourselves? This virtual series explores how… Read more »

Peer Employment Resource Database updated

  The most recent update to PAN’s Peer Employment Resource Database sought to build on the initial database with more recent resources. This was done through a literature search of various databases such as Google, Pubmed, Google scholar from January 2023 to the present. A secondary reference search of relevant documents for grey literature including… Read more »

The Stephen Lewis Foundation and the HIV Legal Network invite you to join them for an upcoming webinar about the importance of the Global Fund to LGBTIQ communities, organizations, and movements around the world. This fall Canada will be deciding how much it will pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria… Read more »

Peer Researchers! Turn Your Idea Into Funded Research

This is an invitation for community members and peer researchers who want to turn their ideas into real research proposals. You don’t need academic credentials — just curiosity, lived experience, or commitment to making a difference in sexual health. Together we’ll: ✨ Practice shaping your ideas into research proposals. ✨ Learn how language models (AI) can… Read more »

Substance Use News, July 2025

Substance Use News provides a monthly collection of news and resources on the social, medical and political responses to the toxic drug supply crisis and harm reduction. To get the latest toxic drug safety alerts, visit Info for People Who Use Substances page from Toward the Heart. Get weekly substance use news by subscribing to our newsletter: scroll… Read more »

Sharing the Stigma Reduction Cycle at CAHR

  While at the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) conference in May, we hosted an ancillary event prior to the official opening to provide a hands-on introduction to the Organizational Stigma Assessment Cycle project we’ve been working on. In addition, we wanted to share OSAC  via a poster presentation, allowing the PAN team to… Read more »

There’s a hepatitis C testing event coming up in Vernon at the Cammy LaFleur Street and Outreach Clinic. The team is excited about this event, and would love your help spreading the word. Event Details: 📍 Cammy LaFleur Clinic Courtyard @ 2800 33rd street Vernon BC 📅 Thursday, July 31st, 2025.  (closest we could accommodate… Read more »

  Originally designed and released in 2021 as a visual resource for hepatitis C testing technologies, this resource has been updated as of June 2025 and now includes HIV. Available to download as a PDF, it outlines the various testing technologies that exist for HIV and hepatitis C in terms of name & core function,… Read more »

Via Vancouver Foundation Vancouver Foundation is excited to share that applications for the 2025 Participatory Action Research (PAR) Grants will be open from July 2 to August 5, 2025!  These grants are designed to support research that is co-led by community members and researchers aimed at understanding the root causes of pressing issues impacting the… Read more »

Finding Joy: Celebrating Indigenous Artists

Since Indigenous peoples have been on the lands of Turtle Island, storytelling has been a way to connect. Stories share knowledge, values, history, and rituals. They aren’t all serious though; they also include humour and joy. They are told with spoken word, singing, drumming, carving; through beading; weaving; and celebrations. Contemporary Indigenous artists blend traditional… Read more »