Category: Archive

Inter-Action, Canada’s new Multiculturalism Grants and Contributions Program, is administered by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). The Program supports CIC’s mandate, as well as the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, by assisting in the socio-economic integration of individuals and communities and helping them to contribute to building an integrated and socially cohesive society. The Inter-Action Events stream… Read more »

World Hepatitis Day is coming up on July 28, 2014. Whether you are already engaged in hepatitis C work or if you are looking to build your capacity in this area, CATIE has resources to help you prepare. Here are three ways we can help: 1. We have launched a new series of posters and… Read more »

No More Silos: A Good Practices Guide on undertaking an integrated approach to HIV and hepatitis C identifies practices community-based organizations, community health centres, clinics and other health and social services are engaging to do HIV and hepatitis C work concurrently. No More Silos has two goals: to assist organizations considering undertaking an integrated approach… Read more »

VANCOUVER – July 14th, the provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall released an annual report that examines the complex epidemic of HIV among gay and bisexual men in B.C. “While many communities in British Columbia are seeing a dramatic decline in HIV infections thanks to harm reduction and prevention programs, and advancements in diagnosis and… Read more »

Health Minister Rona Ambrose will launch a social media campaign, leading up to the 20th International AIDS Conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia July 20-25, 2014, to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and the International Conference. Starting the week of July 14, 2014, the campaign will use the hashtag #TowardsACure, representing the goal we are working towards,… Read more »

New and Noteworthy Hep C infections due to unsafe medical procedures falling in low and middle-income countries The number of Hep C infections in low and middle-income countries acquired due to unsafe medical injections fell by an estimated 91% between 2000 and 2010, reported Canadian researchers in PLOS One. In 2000, the World Health Organization… Read more »

tānisi! The Indigenous Women & Two Spirit Harm Reduction Coalition have begun work on a forthcoming self-published collection of research, writing and cultural production which will explore marginalized perspectives around decolonization and we are currently looking for contributors. We are offering an honorarium of $50-$250 per piece depending on the undertaking. The project is open… Read more »

Artists/non-artists and disabled/nondisabled folks alike Project Creative Users is seeking participants to join us in a two month collective arts project that will engage individual and collective experiences and understandings of access and/or barriers to access. Project Creative Users will explore through the sharing of stories and collaborative art making, how participants negotiate various spaces… Read more »

If I were ever to choose something to describe my HIV-positive status it would not be an acronym. How hard is it for people to say “positive person” or “positive people”?  The element of truth that resonates here for me is the fact that both those terms are indicators of real, living, breathing entities. Too… Read more »

        by Margot Kuo, Epidemiologist, Clinical Prevention Services, BCCDC Introduction In BC, syphilis and HIV testing are recommended for all women at prenatal screening for optimal clinical care and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of these infections. Prenatal HIV screening has been universal since 1994, due to the growing number of BC women… Read more »