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Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (Room 3200), Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Address: 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver In the past few years, Dr. Hart has turned the world of drug policy and addiction research upside down with his pursuit of independent and rigorous research into the world… Read more »

Health Iinitiative for Men (HIM) has written an Open Letter to Gilead Sciences, asking them to apply for Health Canada approval for use of Truvada in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a new tool in HIV prevention. Someone who is HIV negative can take anti-HIV medications on a daily basis to reduce… Read more »

Click here to see an investigative piece regarding Healing Our Spirit on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

“You basically saved my Shambhala by the test I just got” (male, 25, BC) For many years ANKORS has provided harm reduction and pill and powder testing services at the Shambhala Music Festival. We commissioned a survey to assess use of our harm reduction programming at the 2013 festival and to learn about festival-goers’ patterns… Read more »

The first progress report of From Hope to Health: Towards an AIDS Free Generation is now available. This progress report covers the first fiscal year of provincial expansion (April 1, 2013 – March 31, 2014). In addition, there is a supporting technical document that details the source of the data and parameters used to measure… Read more »

The Public Health Agency of Canada is pleased to present the Hepatitis B in Canada: 2005–2011 Surveillance Report. This report was made possible through the collaboration of all provinces and territories, whose continuous contribution to sexually transmitted and bloodborne infection surveillance is appreciated and gratefully acknowledged. The Executive Summary is posted online and a PDF… Read more »

You are invited to learn more about the Up For Debate campaign, a national call for all political parties to make meaningful commitments to change women’s lives for the better. As part of this Canada-wide conversation, BC alliance members are hosting an interactive event with Aboriginal leader Fay Blaney, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Professor of Economics… Read more »

Summer Camp will be held at Camp Elphinstone in Gibsons BC from July 26th-31st, 2015. This year’s camp applications will be open to those aged 6-17 who are impacted by HIV and reside in Western Canada.

This Saturday will be the FREE public screening of the films sponsored by TELUS, Cineworks and the Play It Forward! Campaign. Public Screening is at the Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street Doors open at 1.15pm; Show 1.30pm, Saturday March 21st (the whole show will be approximately one hour long). The screening will feature completed short videos (1-3 minutes… Read more »

Testing is the first and most crucial step in the HIV treatment cascade. Rapid point-of-care HIV testing allows people to test and learn their HIV status during the same visit. A review of the evidence supports the impact of rapid point-of-care testing on HIV testing uptake, acceptability, receipt of results and other outcomes. A number… Read more »

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!  Complete our 8 minute survey and be entered to WIN 1 of 3 Visa Cards—to be used anywhere that accepts Visa.  If you are HIV + and living in British Columbia we would love your opinion.  There is a new vaccine recommended and free for people living with HIV in… Read more »

Researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (CfE) in Vancouver have amassed extensive health-related data collected from HIV-positive people. These data have been stripped of information that could be used to identify individual patients. From time to time this data is analysed to produce reports. Recently, researchers at the CfE sought to… Read more »