Category: Archive

Review: Social marketing interventions

Check out the newly released Cochrane Collaboration review on “Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women”.  To download the paper, please click here.

HepCBC Hepatitis C Education & Prevention Society is pleased to invite you to a Public Interactive Forum about NEW “Consensus Guidelines” for the Management of Viral Hepatitis recommended by the Canadian Assn. for the Study of the Liver (CASL).  Set aside Friday, Mar. 2, 2012 in Victoria, BC.  All day, no charge.  Limited seating so pre-register!… Read more »

Call for Proposals: Asian Outreach Project

AIDS Vancouver and has been operating the Asian Community Outreach program over the past year. This is the only HIV and Harm Reduction program providing direct services to the Asian Community in the Lower Mainland. Yet the BC Centre for Disease Control 2009 Annual Report notes that Asians and South Asians account for the third… Read more »

PLEASE HELP INFORM HIV SERVICES IN VANCOUVER

The STOP HIV/AIDS project has been running since Spring 2010, improving services for HIV, including testing, treatment and support for HIV+ people.  There have been many changes in services over the last year or two. Funding for the STOP HIV/AIDS project is finished in March 2013, and Vancouver Coastal Health wants to hear what you… Read more »

Here is the list of recipients for the Positive Action Canada HIV/AIDS Innovation Program (PACIP) 2011.  Ten community-based HIV/AIDS organizations across Canada shared the $125,000 available. Grant applications were reviewed by ViiV Healthcare Shire Canada in consultation with the PACIP Community Advisory Committee comprised of HIV/AIDS community experts drawn from across Canada. Final project selection and… Read more »

A Call to Care sign-on statement

From the Canadian Health Coalition: Dear friends, As you are probably aware, we decided not to release the Call to Care sign-on statement at the First Ministers’ meeting in Victoria last week. After some discussion it was decided it would be better to wait until we get substantially more sign-ons. As of today we have… Read more »

Guest Blogger: Ross Harvey, Positive Living BC

It’s been a depressing few years for people who believe, as the Supreme Court of Canada put it in 1993: “In fostering the underlying values of dignity, integrity and autonomy, it is fitting that s. 8 of the Charter should seek to protect a biographical core of personal information which individuals in a free and… Read more »

CATIE: HepC Info Update 3.1

Check out CATIE’s latest HepC Info Update!  This issues topics include: France: Is more frequent monitoring for liver cancer among co-infected people needed? Crack pipe distribution pilot project in Vancouver Health authority weighs adding more supervised injection sites Researchers identify liver cancer risk factors CDC reminder: Insulin pens are not for use on more than… Read more »

Update: Gender & Sexual Health Initiative

Here is an update on recent activities and publications of the Gender & Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI) of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. GSHI is an umbrella program of research projects both locally and internationally, focused on gender, sexual health, and HIV/AIDS, with particular attention on the intersections with social inequities, public policy, and access to… Read more »

SFU Community Capacity Building Program: Community Event

We would like to invite you to join us for an evening of FREE GLOW BOWLING to celebrate the launch of our Back in the Game campaign. Who?       Families affected by HIV Where?    Varsity Ridge Bowling Lanes When?     Sunday February 5th @ 4:45-6:30 Cost?       Free   space is limited How?       To register call 778 782 9259… Read more »

~a meditate for life retreat~

Please join us for our next Meditate For Life mindfulness/vipassana meditation retreat, Open the Flower of Being in an Unfolding Spring.  It will take place on Sunday March 4th from 10am to 4pm (registration will open at 9:30) and will take place at The Vancouver Friends For Life Society’s lovely heritage home at 1459 Barclay… Read more »