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In This Issue: REACH Funds Two New Interventions Research Initiatives within REACH: Steph Bell and Sara O’Shaunessy UWW 3.0: Earl Nowgesic Collaborative Match-Making Funding Opportunities Get Involved To view the full newsletter, click here.

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »