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The link to this story is here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/02/24/hiv-aids-bc-china-model.html  

You: An expert in your own life. A youth age 19 or younger living with or affected by HIV.  Interested in:  Meeting other amazing youth like you, to connect and talk about the issues that matter in your lives.  From friends, relationships, and dating to staying healthy and finding out about youth specific services and… Read more »

How do you know what you know? In 2008, ManCount recruited 1,139 gay and bisexual men from Vancouver’s gay venues to complete a questionnaire and provide a finger-prick blood sample. The aim was to measure the rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI, HCV, HPV) in this population. Now the results are in!… Read more »

        Dear Colleagues: I am very happy to provide you with this copy of Renewing Our Response’s Community Needs Assessment Report.  It will also be available on our website at www.renewingourresponse.ca if anyone would like to access it there.  I hope that this will prove to be a very useful document for… Read more »

Healing Our Spirit has recently located to a new office.  The new address is: 137 East 4th Ave., Vancouver, BC  V5T 1G4 Phone and fax remian the same. Open house is scheduled for February 25, 2011 from 10 am – 3 pm.    

Victoria – February 7-14 is anti-stigma week in Greater Victoria, and this year’s theme is “Drug Use, Dignity and Human Rights.” To support of the week, AIDS Vancouver Island has issued a statement in support of the “Nice People Take Drugs” campaign from the UK. “We are inspired by the work being done locally and… Read more »

Drug Policy Should Be Based on Science, Not Ideology We are writing to invite you to endorse the Vienna Declaration, a scientific statement calling for evidence-based, public health approaches to drug policies. Through the application of evidence-based research, health policies are increasingly being driven by the best available scientific evidence; however, there remain critical areas… Read more »

VCH STOP HIV/AIDS Project leaders would like to invite you to participate in a half day information sharing and feedback session on the project. Date & Time:   Thursday February 17th, 2011 – 8:30am – 12:30pm Registration/Coffee:   8:30am – 9:00am Session:    9:00am – 12:30pm Location:The Round Room, 2nd Floor (beside the Sassafras Cafeteria) Jim Pattison Pavilion… Read more »

  How do you know what you know? In 2008, ManCount recruited 1,139 gay and bisexual men from Vancouver’s gay venues to complete a questionnaire and provide a finger-prick blood sample. The aim was to measure the rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI, HCV, HPV) in this population. Now the results are… Read more »

Portland Hotel Society Public Lecture Series presents: Stanton Peele TRUE RECOVERY: Does addiction treatment detach people from their own recovery by attacking their greatest asset? THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 2011 7:00 – 9:00 pm SFU HARBOUR CENTRE 515 West Hastings Street Room 1900 – Fletcher Challenge Theatre Vancouver Soup, coffee and dessert will be served at… Read more »

STOP HIV COMMUNITY CONSULTATIONS:  January 25 – February 10, 2011 “What’s happening with HIV health services?” Vancouver Coastal Health and the STOP HIV project need your help to plan service improvements.  Kath Webster and Margreth Tolson are meeting with people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) groups in Vancouver to gather ideas about next steps for the… Read more »

  BCPWA recently released a position statement regarding Pre- and Post-Test Counselling and Disclosure Directives.  It reads as follows: On November 18, that element (section 6.1) of the Communicable Disease Regulation (CDR) that required written consent before information about a person’s positive HIV-test results could be disclosed to anyone other than the Medical Officer of… Read more »