Webinars: Live and On-Demand

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The KnowledgeConnect series helps build capacity, health literacy, and community connections. Sessions may offer insight into new and innovative approaches to work, new research that will contribute to shared community knowledge, advocacy issues, new community resources, or the social determinants of health that affect HIV and hepatitis C.	The PAN Presents series connects PAN member organizations with provincial Health Authority representatives, provincial and federal funding organizations, and representatives from governmental ministries. You can learn the latest information from these voices, and bring your questions to the table in these exchanges.

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We greatly appreciate the vision of our government funders and their ongoing commitment to supporting the work of the Pacific AIDS Network. In particular we gratefully acknowledge the Public Health Agency of Canada – HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Past Webinars

Reconciliation from an Indigenous Perspective: 2024 AGM Keynote

Recorded On: Thursday, October 17th, 2024 - 12:00 pm

We were pleased to welcome Rachelle Dallaire*, BSW/MSW/RSW, Executive Director of Indigenous Perspectives Society as keynote speaker at our Annual General Meeting virtually on October 17, 2024. Since 2021, we have had the privilege of building relationship and learning from Rachelle and the team at Indigenous Perspectives Society (IPS), working on organizational changes that reflect… Read more »

Building Team Strength From the Ground Up

Recorded On: Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 - 9:00 am

We hosted a 3-part virtual event to help strengthen organizational growth, from understanding where you are at now, and potential for change. Build Your Capacity through Nonprofit Lifecycles This simple but powerful framework offers a straightforward approach for determining the current stage of growth of your organization. It provides a rapid method for… Read more »

Building Blocks for Hepatitis and Sexual Health Literacy

Recorded On: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 - 10:00 am

We were pleased to work with Cherlyn Manderson Cortes to present a session on hepatitis in recognition of World Hepatitis Day. Cherlyn is a Clinical Nurse Educator at the BC Centre for Disease Control. She presented information on the different strains of hepatitis, transmission, prevention, and treatment. She also talked about how understanding hepatitis is… Read more »

Understanding and Navigating Long-Acting (injectable) HIV Treatment and Prevention Options in BC

Recorded On: Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 - 10:00 am

This webinar featured Health Initiative for Men (HIM), and Ribbon Community with an overview of recent changes to the HIV medication landscape in Canada. This presentation provides frontline staff, educators, and community members with information on long-acting HIV treatment and prevention options, advocacy opportunities, and current realities for accessing long-acting medications for priority populations in… Read more »

Making data work for YOU: a new tool for support, education, outreach, and advocacy

Recorded On: Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 - 10:00 am

Meet the team, see the vision, and learn how BC’s new STBBI dashboard can support your work. The dashboard team includes community members and BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) staff. This webinar shares their vision for a tool that is easy to use and understand. The dashboard information can help you in… Read more »

PrEP 201: Prevention for Every Body

Presenter: Thomas Iglesias Trombetta and Grant Picarillo

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 - 10:00 am

We were pleased to hear from community educators representing Freddie and PAN member Health Initiative for Men in PrEP 201: Prevention for Every Body. Thomas Iglesias Trombetta and Grant Picarillo from Freddie offered information about some of the lesser-known intricacies of PrEP for HIV prevention, talking about considerations for different types of communities, new developments… Read more »

Supporting interpersonal relationships

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 - 9:00 am

Our first virtual event of 2024 featured conversation to build core knowledge for practice and policy development in frontline support work. It featured two different topics embedded in relationships, as providing services to a couple can present intricate layers that differ from working with an individual. Each session offered information to help attendees enhance connections… Read more »

STIBBI update – HIV and Syphilis

Recorded On: Thursday, December 7th, 2023

Speakers: Elaine Chan, MPH, CPH (she/her) Teddy Consolacion, PhD (she/they) Epidemiologists with Clinical Prevention Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control Elaine Chan and Teddy Consolacion pull out some key messages for the community based response based on current data and comparing back over the years.

Community. Action. Change.

Recorded On: Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 - 9:00 am

This year’s theme for World AIDS Day 2023 was “Let Communities Lead“. We upheld the theme and expanded the vision to the intersecting communities we support with this training on December 6th. We featured discussions on improving client connection and cultural safety; ethical and open employment practices supporting people with lived andl iving experience (PWLLE);… Read more »

2023 AGM Keynote panel on Addressing the Deadly Gap in Drug Policy

Presenter: Charlene Burmeister and Kurt Lock

Recorded On: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 - 12:00 pm

PAN held its Annual General Meeting virtually on Thursday, October 19, 2023. We convened a special keynote panel called Addressing the deadly gap in drug policy: treatment and harm reduction are not enough. We need safer supply. Presentations were by Charlene Burmeister (Coalition of Substance Users of the North) and Kurt Lock (Research Coordinator at… Read more »

HPV Prevention, Care, and Research in 2SLGBTQ+ Individuals

Presenter: Dr. Troy Grennan

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 - 10:00 am

At least three out of four people will be exposed to human papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in their lives, and there are different kinds, or strains. Some strains cause warts, which are generally not dangerous; other strains can lead to cervical or anal cancer if not detected. In this webinar, Dr. Troy Grennan shared… Read more »

Hep C Diversities

Recorded On: Wednesday, July 19th, 2023 - 9:00 am

World Hepatitis Day is an annual day of recognition, education, and advocacy on July 28th. In the lead up, we hosted this virtual community event Wednesday July 19, 2023 to look at some of the layers of living with hepatitis C. The recordings of the sessions are available below. Program Micro-elimination of hep C… Read more »