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<!–[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} <![endif]–> Last week, UNAIDS launched CrowdOutAIDS, a massive crowd sourcing effort that asks youth to direct the group’s worldwide AIDS prevention efforts in the coming years. Crowd sourcing… Read more »

The theme of the 21st Annual CAHR Conference is "A Turning Point in the Fight Against HIV: Meeting New Challenges" and will be held April 19 – 22, 2012 at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal.  For more information on submitting your abstract and on the conference, please click here.

A recent article on OAN and PAN’s partnering on the Positive Leader Development Institute (PLDI) talks about the success of the program, the national appetite for this kind of training by people living with HIV, and the positive.  To read the full article, please click here.

The ViiV Healthcare Shire Canada 2011 Positive Action Canada HIV/AIDS Innovation Program (PACIP) is now accepting applications. Application deadline is 14 November 2011. PACIP 2011 seeks proposals that use multi-dimensional approaches to optimize the health and well-being of people living long-term with HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy. CIP defines multi-dimensionality as the physical, mental, emotional, social… Read more »

Some Highlights:  – Discovery may aid development of hepatitis C vaccine  – Didanosine, higher hepatitis C virus viral load predict liver fibrosis in HIV/HCV co-infected people  – New hepatitis C drug telaprevir allows shorter hepatitis therapy for some  – Insulin resistance quadruples liver cancer risk in people with HIV/hepatitis C co-infection  – Coffee consumption reduces… Read more »

CIHR has circulated it’s Communiqué for October 2011.  Look for updates on: <!–[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} <![endif]–> 1. New Funding Opportunities 2…. Read more »

CHIWOS – The Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study – is looking for community representatives across British Columbia to join its Provincial Community Advisory Board. The aims of the study are to: 1)      Assess the proportion, distribution and patterns of use and uptake of women-specific HIV/AIDS services, and factors associated with service… Read more »

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS A House is Not a Always Home: Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Housing for People at Risk and Living with HIV/AIDS WHAT The Canadian AIDS Society ( CAS ) is inviting stakeholders from across the country to take part in a brief housing survey. Your opinions and ideas will play a key role in… Read more »

<!–[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} <![endif]–> The Public Health Agency of Canada has released its "ACAP & Hepatitic C Community Support Program, BC Region, Recap Report… Read more »

From CBC BC Vancouver’s controversial Insite clinic can stay open, the Supreme Court said Friday in a landmark ruling. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that not allowing the clinic to operate under an exemption from drug laws would be a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court ordered the federal… Read more »

Check out outREACH News September edition.  In this issue find information on the CIHR’s upcoming funding competition, University Without Walls on Twitter, as well as a reminder that the deadline to apply for the Centre for REACH’s scholarship is SEPTEMBER 16th.  For more information, please click here

Health Initiative for Men (HIM)’s Hottest at the Start campaign continues through online video.  Having debuted at this year’s Vancouver Out On Screen Film Festival, this attention-grabbing video campaign speaks to gay men in a frank way about Acute HIV infection.    The campaign explains that HIV is “hottest,” or most transmissible at the start of… Read more »