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The Professional Guidelines and Public Health Practice Division, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, of the Public Health Agency of Canada is pleased to provide you with an electronic copy of the revised Gonococcal Infections chapter of the Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections (Canadian STI Guidelines).   The content of the chapter is… Read more »

Report from UNAIDS sponsored Gay Men/other MSM HIV Consultation.  This document will be very useful for local advocacy efforts. For more information, contact – Richard Burzynski – [email protected] To read this, CLICK HERE

Our Summer edition of The Positive Side offers a rich editorial lineup, including: people living with HIV chatting about bedside manners—stories about healthcare providers who left a lasting impression; what the latest research on HIV viral load means for you; an in-depth look at the power and pitfalls of disclosing your HIV status; how spirituality… Read more »

Bedford vs. Canada Supreme Court of Canada Hearing 2013 On September 28, 2010, sex workers and allies celebrated Justice Himel’s landmark ruling that would strike down three major Criminal Code of Canada provisions that make prostitution against the law:     Section 210 – Common bawdy house     Section 212(1)(j) – Living on the avails; and… Read more »

What’s GPS? Gay Poz Sex: Finding Your Own Way (GPS) is a new eight-week program at Positive Living BC, by and for gay and bisexual HIV-positive men. This peer-facilitated program is an opportunity for participants to look at ways of making changes in their sex lives. In many cases, participants leave the program feeling better… Read more »

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE include: the problem of fairness in hepatitis C funding and care, ensuring that HCV+ people have a voice in organizations that represent us and get funding to provide hepatitis C support, education, and prevention services, the need for a liver transplant ‘support team’ of Vancouver area volunteers to help transplant patients… Read more »

On Tuesday, July 9 at noon the KDC Health Office at the Cape Mudge Village on Quadra Island will be holding a HIV Awareness Barbeque at 12:00pm. Their goal is to open doors of communication and reduce stigma. If you are on Quadra Island go down and join them!

According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, there are about 71,000 HIV-positive people in Canada, 26% of whom do not know their HIV status. It is in this context that expanding opportunities for offering HIV testing should be seen as helpful because they can do the following: help uncover undiagnosed HIV infections reinforce education… Read more »

Tammy’s Fight by Brynn Campbell Can photography help fight stigma? I firmly believe it can. I think that by documenting social issues, not only does it inform and engage, it empowers the subject who is being photographed as well. For the past year I have been photographing Tammy, a crack cocaine user who is infected… Read more »

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions. We are pleased to share with you the highlights from the 2nd National Community Partner Forum on Community-Engaged Health Disparities Research that took place December 5-7, 2012 in Washington DC.   The forum… Read more »

by Theodora B. Consolacion, Epidemiologist, Clinical Prevention Services, BCCDC In this update, we present the final number of new HIV diagnoses in BC for 2012, and describe recent trends by gender, region, and exposure category. Methods We used provincial HIV surveillance data to describe the number of new HIV diagnoses in BC overall (1986-2012) and… Read more »