Category: Archive

2025 AGM and Keynote Presentation

  PAN’s Annual General Meeting took place on October 16, 2025 and Dr. Sofia Bartlett was our keynote speaker: “Let’s Get It On! Working Together to Equitably Eliminate STBBIs in British Columbia by 2030″ Over the past five years, British Columbia has seen major shifts in how sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) – including… Read more »

Youth and Young Adults Invitation  Vancouver Foundation wants to learn from you! Join us for a community conversation with other self-identified immigrant/refugee and Indigenous youth and young adults (29 and under) If you are interested in addressing the issues faced by your communities and/or interested in working for the non-profit and charitable sector please come join us… Read more »

Living Positive Resource Centre Move

UPDATED (Please note there was an error in the May 29 newsletter when we mentioned 2 locations) To Our Partners, Members, Stakeholders and the Community We Serve. A new Executive Director, followed by the nomination of a brand-new Board of Directors provides us with an extraordinary opportunity to reflect on the past, to celebrate our… Read more »

Sister Power! is a special gathering for women living with HIV and their allies (including ASOs, clinics, and advocates who provide essential resources and supports to women). We hope you’ll join us for lunch and conversation about supporting the well-being of women living with HIV and envisioning our future in BC. Sister Power! is on Friday March 30th, 1-4pm at the… Read more »

Connect with Friends for Life!

The Vancouver Friends for Life Society (VFFL) has updated their website. Please visit www.vancouverfriendsforlife.ca to view the new look. VFFL runs various wellness services for people with life challenging illnesses. They are located at the Diamond Centre for Living, a beautifully converted heritage home 1459 Barclay Street in Vancouver’s West End, . The home is available for… Read more »

Nominations Open for Positive Living BC’s AccolAIDS

Positive Living BC’s AccolAIDS  Awards Gala is approaching! Positive Living BC invites you to nominate your hero in the BC HIV/AIDS movement for an AccolAIDS Award. Deadline to nominate is 5pm on Friday March 9th. Think of an individual, group or organization you know who has demonstrated extraordinary dedication, determination and compassion in responding to… Read more »

From Canadian Positive People Network (CPPN)   Dear CPPN members, allies, and community-based partners/stakeholders, As valued partners of the Canadian response to HIV and HIV co-infections, we would like to provide you with some important updates in follow-up to our communiqué, dated May 19, 2017. Specifically, we reported then that: Our collaboration with the Public Health Agency… Read more »

Thursday, October 26 at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT PRICK! is a private and confidential on-the-spot STI testing event for all ‘guys who like guys.’ Our definition of ‘guy’ includes: bi, cis, curious, gay, male, non-binary, queer, questioning, straight, trans, two-spirit, and all other guys who like guys. Tests included are for chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis (A,B &C), HIV… Read more »

Positive Living BC has a new home!

Congratulations to all at Positive Living BC! The move is complete and the doors are open at the new space. They are excited to show everyone in the community around.  Please join others in the community on Thursday, October 19 from 4 PM – 6 PM to tour the new facilities and learn about our programming. … Read more »

  From the September 29 First Nations Health Authority Media Release: First Nations in British Columbia will join the province’s drug insurance program, PharmaCare, on October 1, 2017. The change will see drug benefits services for First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) clients move from Health Canada’s longstanding federal system to a new made-in-BC PharmaCare plan… Read more »

Celebrating Yúusnewas Videos By Indigenous Youth

PAN is happy to join the celebration of the work of YouthCO’s Yúusnewas Program under the leadership of Kayla Mitchell and her team of Educators. Their 2017 First Directions Workshop led to the creation of the following 3 new short films which were written and directed by Indigenous youth from across the province: Revive Breaking… Read more »

from Men’s Health Initiative The next PRICK! testing event will be on September 28th, from 6-8 PM.  PRICK! is a private and confidential on-the-spot STI testing event for all ‘guys who like guys.’ Our definition of ‘guy’ includes: bi, cis, curious, gay, male, non-binary, queer, questioning, straight, trans, two-spirit, and all other guys who like… Read more »