Category: Archive

National Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week 2012: Getting to Zero

Red Road HIV/AIDS Network and Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network will partner to host event on December 5-6, 2012 in Victoria, BC. Location: Vancouver Island Ballroom, Hotel Grand Pacific, 463 Belleville Street Victoria, BC Theme: Celebrating Aboriginal Women and Culture Time: 9am – 4pm Red Road HIV/AIDS Network is mobilizing community to be part of this… Read more »

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP/Day With(out) Art Screening

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is a feature-length documentary about how ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a small group of people, came together to change the world and save each other’s lives.The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of exhilarating major actions with additional information about… Read more »

Positive Women: Exposing Injustice

Positive Women: Exposing Injustice is a new documentary that takes the audience into the hearts and minds of four positive women bravely speaking out about HIV and criminalization. What happens if a woman does not disclose her HIV-positive status to a sexual partner? How does criminalization impact HIV-positive women in Canada?  How do women feel… Read more »

Vancouver, B.C. [November 20, 2012] — HIV-positive individuals who strictly adhere to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have a significantly lower probability of premature morbidity and mortality as compared to those with suboptimal compliance to HAART, according to a new study from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE). The study, published this week… Read more »

TIME TO DELIVER: A GLOBAL APPEAL TO CANADA’S PARLIAMENTARIANS TO FIX LAW ON AFFORDABLE MEDICINES FOR ALL Endorsed by more than 80 civil society organizations from around the world NOVEMBER 21, 2012 — From around the world, we are organizations actively engaged in responding to the global AIDS crisis. We write to remind you that,… Read more »

All Things to All People

PAN’s Executive Director, Evin Jones, wrote an article that was published in Positive Living Magazine and we would like to share it with you. All Things to All People Regional AIDS service organizations are adapting to big needs and diverse populations HIV/AIDS-related service delivery outside of the Lower Mainland is changing. With relatively fewer social… Read more »

Challenges of Disclosure

    After the Supreme Court decision earlier this month, I am struck once again with the realization that many people who are removed from HIV in their own lives have very little understanding about just how difficult it can be to disclose your status to someone when you don’t know how they might react…. Read more »

HIV-positive Ottawa Man Guilty of Attempted Murder

CBC News, Nov. 1/12 A 31-year-old Ottawa man has been found guilty of three counts of attempted murder and three counts of aggravated sexual assault after failing to disclose his HIV-positive status to sex partners. Verdict comes a month after Supreme Court ruling Thursday’s guilty verdict comes after a controversial Supreme Court of Canada ruling… Read more »

25 Years of CANFAR

October 26/2012 marked the 25th anniversary of CANFAR (Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research). A Message from CANFAR: We want to take a moment to thank you for making these past 25 years possible! CANFAR has been able to achieve so much more than was imagined on that first day, October 26, 1987. Because of wonderful… Read more »

New HIV/AIDS Legal Network Publication

HIV non-disclosure and criminal law: Implications of recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions for people living with HIV On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in the cases of Mabior and D.C. The Court decided that people living with HIV have a legal duty, under the criminal law, to disclose… Read more »

CAHR Website Launch Communiqué

The Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) is excited to announce the launch of their newly designed Web site, which went live on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012. The site’s homepage welcomes visitors with a bold new look, a clean design, and features content focused on our mission, activities and funded researchers.  The website will highlight… Read more »

How “Evaluative” Does Your Organization Think?

The Bruner Foundation provides a variety of resources and tools designed to assist non-profit service provider and funding organizations in their efforts to build organizational capacity in evaluation and in the use of evaluative thinking. For example, try conducting an Evaluation Inventory of the evaluative activities your organization is currently conducting. Indicators of Evaluative Thinking… Read more »