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Victoria: As a part of Global AIDS Awareness Week and national Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week, AIDS Vancouver Island (AVI) and the Vancouver Island Persons Living with HIV/AIDS Society (VPWAS) are again teaming up with the Greater Victoria Public Library and The Belfry Theatre to bring innovative awareness-raising project to communities in the lower island region… Read more »

The Public Health Agency of Canada is pleased to announce a call for membership applications for the National Aboriginal Council on HIV/AIDS (NACHA) to fill vacant positions. NACHA is a council that provides Aboriginal-focussed, unbiased, non-partisan, evidence-informed and strategic expert advice to the Public Health Agency of Canada (Agency) and First Nations and Inuit Health… Read more »

The Public Health Agency of Canada is pleased to announce a call for membership applications for the Ministerial Advisory Council on the Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada (MAC-FI) to fill vacant positions. MAC-FI is a council that provides unbiased, non-partisan, evidence-informed, targeted and strategic advice to the Minister of Health.  It is comprised… Read more »

Note to CAS Board and Executive Directors of CAS member organizations as well as regional Executive Directors National calls – Save the date: Nov. 21st & 24th As per our discussions this week, we will be hosting two calls with Lisa Smylie, Manager at PHAC, to discuss the proposed funding models. Lisa has accepted our… Read more »

Nominations for the Fourth Annual WEGO Health Activist Awards are now open!  WEGO Health is a network of over 100,000 of the most influential members of the online health community. We are bloggers, tweeters, pinners, and leaders of Facebook pages — we are the empowered patients that drive the healthcare conversation online, across virtually every health topic… Read more »

Background Oak Tree Clinic is studying the clinical effectiveness of a weekly text messaging intervention for improving the care and support of vulnerable and hard-to-reach HIV positive patients on antiretroviral therapy (cART). The study is based upon the WeltelKENYA study [1], a randomized control trial demonstrating that weekly text messages to patients from nurses results… Read more »

Dear all, We would like to welcome Lara Barker back as CATIE’s Regional Educational Coordinator for BC. Lara has spent the last year filling in for two maternity leave positions as the interim Manager, Program Development. After an excellent and busy year, Lara is raring to go with her work in BC again. Please feel… Read more »

Canadians Commend their US Counterparts for marking National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day Toronto, September 18th, 2014 – Today marks the seventh observance of National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day in the United States. The theme of this year’s event is “Aging is a part of life: HIV doesn’t have to be.”  Older adults living… Read more »

Resources put out by the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) Factors Impacting Vulnerability to HIV and other STBBIs (pdf) The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) developed a set of core competency statements for front-line workers in STBBI prevention along with a health equity impact assessment tool specific to STBBIs (the STBBI HEIA Tool) through its… Read more »

Vancouver, BC – Public health officials are renewing their call for men who have sex with men to get tested for syphilis as 2013 figures show the number of cases has surpassed the 2012 rate, which was already the highest in decades. “In 2012, syphilis rates in the Lower Mainland were at their highest in… Read more »

The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will see Queensland, Australia, embrace the made-in-B.C. HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) strategy. BC-CfE, the Government of Queensland and HIV Foundation Queensland (HIVFQ) signed the agreement at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne. The partnership formalizes a collaboration… Read more »

Harm reduction can be parsed as discrete elements – Needle Exchanges, Safe Injection Services Controlled Drug-Use Programs, Harm Reduction Psychotherapy, Outreach at dance venues, etc. The list is long, and the temptation, often, is to look at the separate elements and not see harm reduction as the integrated driving force for all our drug-related work,… Read more »