Category: Archive

REL8 Okanagan World AIDS Day announcement

Kelowna, BC (December 1st, 2015) – Today REL8 Okanagan HIV Positive Social Group stands in silence as thirty-nine million red ribbons fall to the earth from a crimson sky. One for each person who has died of AIDS to date. Many of you were activists and pioneers, you were all certainly innocent victims. We honour… Read more »

World AIDS Day Message from Oak Tree Clinic

Please share this message from the Oak Tree Clinic through your networks!   December 1 is World AIDS Day! This is an opportunity to for us to raise awareness about HIV. This year, let’s Think Positive: Rethink HIV and challenge people to overcome outdated stereotypes and to embrace people living with HIV. BC Women’s Oak Tree Clinic… Read more »

Help us raise awareness about how HIV impacts aging and older adults in Canada: Join our World AIDS Day Social Media Campaign! National Coordinating Committee on HIV and Aging, Programs & Services Working Group Purpose: Our goal is to raise awareness of the experiences, needs and issues facing older adults living with and vulnerable to… Read more »

CALL Out! Film Preview and Eva’s Initiative Award Ceremony

October 21, 4-5:30pm Trout Lake Community Centre, Lakewood Room 3360 Victoria Drive, Vancouver BC ALL Out! has received a 2015 Eva’s Awards  for Ending Youth Homelessness. In addition to national recognition of our program, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority will also receive a prize of $25,000. Please RSVP by October 16th, 2015 At this event we… Read more »

A letter was sent on September 18 to Hon. Minister Ambrose, urging her, as Federal Minister of Health, to endorse the World Health Organization/Pan-American Health Organization Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis, on behalf of the Government of Canada. The 67th Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas will… Read more »

ACT – One Step Closer to Accessing PrEP in Canada

HIV prevention in Canada took a significant step forward today when pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Canada announced it is seeking approval for the use of Truvada as Pre Exposure Prophylaxis in Canada. The onus now sits with Health Canada and policy makers to ensure universal access and coverage of PrEP. Truvada used as PrEP is… Read more »

Announcement from YouthCO and Camp Moomba

        With 18 years of camp to celebrate, The Moomba Society has decided to build on successful partnerships with YouthCO HIV and Hep C Society and to strengthen and make official our collaboration: by the end of 2015, The Moomba Society will be integrated with YouthCO, and starting on September 30th, 2015,… Read more »

VANCOUVER – The Government of B.C. is providing St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation with $2 million to help the Hope to Health Research Clinic expand. Health Minister Terry Lake made the announcement in Vancouver last night at the eighth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015), the world’s largest open scientific… Read more »