Category: Archive

Major randomized studies of the impact of antiretroviral treatment expansion on new infections are getting underway, and should provide important evidence to guide further implementation, researchers reported at the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care summit, controlling the HIV epidemic with antiretrovirals, in London this week. However, some delegates attending the meeting, which comprised… Read more »

REACH’s Youth and HIV Working Group, established at the 2011 REACH100 Meeting, is seeking input into our survey, Youth and HIV: The Issues. Our objective with this survey is to determine which issues related to youth and HIV are most pressing from the perspective of researchers, frontline service providers, and youth themselves. We will use… Read more »

The GNPI Mentoring Our Rising Executives (MORE) is a six month group-based mentorship program that connects experienced leaders from government and non-profit organizations with emerging leaders in these sectors to develop leadership skills and build relationships.  The MORE program will take place in Victoria from September 2012 – February 2013. There is no fee associated… Read more »

We all invite you to be a part of these two worthwhile projects when they have been successfully funded. HIV CBR Manual: A Community Perspective Reference Manual to Engage in CBR The HIV CBR Manual application proposes to create a reference manual written in plain language designed to build the capacity of Community Based Organizations… Read more »

AIDS 2012 Canadian HIV/AIDS Resources USB The call includes documents, materials, reports and posters. Inclusion Criteria: Resources must cover at least one of the following topics:           Prevention           Care           Treatment           Support           Social justice/human rights issues          Scientific research (biomedical, clinical, health systems & services, and social, cultural and environmental factors that… Read more »

As many of you know, in 2010-11, the Public Health Agency of Canada undertook a study of its HIV/AIDS Grants and Contributions (G & C) funding programs’ structure to obtain advice and evidence to inform the ongoing alignment, efficiency and effectiveness of it’s public health funding programs. The firm, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, conducted the… Read more »

PAN is excited to launch a new web-based series of trainings and presentations to augment the more traditional in-person trainings and conferences that we’ve done since 2001. We will be developing a series of webinars with a diverse range of topics starting in October 2012 and through the webinars it is our goal to increase… Read more »

Ever wonder what it took for InSite to win at the Supreme Court of Canada? Interested in the implications of InSite’s victory on our local communities? We’ve invited speakers from the front lines of the struggle to share with us how community involvement, research, policy, and legal strategies led to the success of Canada’s most… Read more »

The 8th BC Gay Men’s Health Summit is scheduled for Thursday November 1 & Friday November 2, 2012. Location: Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC Information will be available shortly on the 2012 Call for Submissions. www.gaysummit.ca

AIDS Vancouver is proud to announce the Vancouver International AIDS Candlelight Memorial: Promoting Health and Dignity Together The International AIDS Candlelight Memorial is one of the world’s oldest and largest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and… Read more »

Please join us on June 1 for an important event which will bring together diverse, cross-sectoral stakeholders for a presentation and discussion about media representations of substance use and people who use drugs in Victoria. The lead researchers, Bernie Pauly (RN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Nursing and Scientist, CARBC, University of Victoria) and Andrea Langlois (M.A.,… Read more »

The latest CATIE Hep C info update is now available.  Topics include: Professional tattooing and piercing not linked to hepatitis C risk Highlights of the 2012 International Liver Congress Create safe-injection sites in Ottawa, Toronto, study concludes Ignoring chronic hepatitis B treatment costly, specialist says Public health leaders criticize Ottawa’s ideology-based drug policies To read… Read more »