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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.

Upcoming Webinars

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

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

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

Building Blocks for Hepatitis and Sexual Health Literacy

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

Attention educators and frontline service providers! We are pleased to be presenting a webinar with Cherlyn Manderson Cortes in recognition of World Hepatitis Day. Cherlyn is a Clinical Nurse Educator at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Cherlyn will highlight inter-relationships of STIBBIs including hepatitis, and share education approaches that build hepatitis and sexual health… Read more »

Past Webinars

What’s Happening in Digital Sexual Health

Presenter: Devon Haag and Heather Pedersen

Moderator: Janet Madsen

Recorded On: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 - 10:00 am

This dialogue-style webinar explores some digital sexual health services available in BC. Digital sexual health programs help people learn about, monitor and enhance their sexual health and knowledge by engaging online. They have the potential to connect with people in hard to reach areas, and reach populations that may face stigma or challenges in accessing… Read more »

Special Presentation by Dr. Christy Sutherland

Presenter: Dr. Christy Sutherland

Recorded On: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 - 12:00 pm

Presentation ends at 58:01 followed by questions and comments. We were pleased to welcome Dr. Christy Sutherland, Medical Director of PHS Community Services, as the keynote speaker to precede PAN’s Annual General Meeting. She spoke on the topics of a safer drug supply and the question of decriminalization. Dr. Christy Sutherland is a family doctor… Read more »

Working With Peer Research Associates

Presenter: Paul Kerber and Peer Research Associates from the Stigma Index study

Recorded On: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Run time: 35:11. Please complete the evaluation after viewing. In this KnowledgeConnect webinar, Peer Research Associates (PRAs) from the BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index reflected on their experiences working on the project, and offered their thoughts on best practices to teams which include or are thinking of including PRAs in their work. These… Read more »

PAN Presents: PHSA Hot Topics

Presenter: Jason Wong, Lauren Allan, Jill Pascoe

Recorded On: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 - 10:00 am

PAN welcomed presenters Dr. Jason Wong, Jill Pascoe and Lauren Allan from the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) to talk about topics chosen by our members. This session provided an update on current epidemiology in BC and PHSA women’s services. Suggested audience: HIV and hepatitis C organization staff and volunteers, especially those working with… Read more »

Near and Far: the Harm Reduction Landscape in the Interior

Presenter: Cheryl Dowden

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Each region in BC is facing its own overdose crisis within this public health emergency. Each region has its own layout of services, and the sheer land area of each region can make it difficult to support everyone who needs harm reduction services. ANKORS has been providing community care and support in the East and… Read more »

Making Connections for Cultural Safety and Humility

Presenter: Andrea Derban, Cherlyn Cortes

Recorded On: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 - 10:00 am

For groups that are non-Indigenous but work with Indigenous people, there may be some gaps in knowledge about how to best provide culturally sensitive and appropriate support. In this KnowledgeConnect dialogue the topic was how to advance cultural safety through humility, sensitivity, and skills development. Andrea Derban and Cherlyn Cortes of the First Nations Health… Read more »

Hepatitis C Schooling That Connects: Dialogue with Shelley Taylor of CATIE

Presenter: Shelley Taylor

Recorded On: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 - 10:00 am

World Hepatitis Day is honoured every year on July 28, and this year we presented a KnowledgeConnect dialogue webinar will focus on hepatitis C knowledge and skills that connect people across the country. Shelley Taylor, the Regional Health Education Coordinator with CATIE, shared what brought her to working in hepatitis C and what her work… Read more »

PHAC Harm Reduction Fund

Presenter: Joshua Mann (Senior Program Officer, Western Region, PHAC) and Jeff Dodds (Senior Advisor, Program Delivery for PHAC)

Recorded On: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

At last year’s PAN fall conference, one of the requests we heard at the ED summit was for PAN to facilitate more conversations and potential collaborations across the network when it came to large national and provincial funding calls. In the weeks before PHAC launched its latest solicitation for the Harm Reduction Fund, we worked… Read more »

Measuring Reductions in STBBIs: Your Input Matters

Presenter: Dr. Jason Wong and Jennifer (Evin) Jones

Recorded On: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 - 11:00 am

Help Shape how Canada evaluates its success in addressing HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and other STBBIs! Reducing the health impact of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) is a key goal for British Columbia, for Canada, and globally. To support this goal, the Public Health Agency of Canada released a Pan-Canadian STBBI Framework for Action and… Read more »

Pozcast: Supporting PLHIV in their Health

Presenter: James Watson

Recorded On: Tuesday, June 11th, 2019

During Men’s Health Week we sat down with James Watson, the host of Pozcast. The goal of Pozcast is to connect people living with HIV with HIV research in ways that matter. Episodes on men’s health have included HIV and fatherhood, and a series on drug use in the gay men’s community. But it is… Read more »

Creative, Inclusive, Rooted: Supporting Indigenous Youth with Yúusnewas

Presenter: Amanda Tallio and Larissa Wahpooseyan

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 - 11:00 am

YouthCO has been working to reduce the impact of stigma related to HIV and hepatitis C since 1994. YouthCO’s Yúusnewas program is an Indigenous peer-led program. Their work includes workshops on HIV, sexual health and harm reduction in urban and rural communities; Culture is Healing events by and for Indigenous youth in downtown Vancouver; First… Read more »

Options for Sexual Health: Partners for Impact

Presenter: Michelle Fortin and Nicole Pasquino

Recorded On: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 - 10:00 am

Options for Sexual Health provides BC communities with comprehensive sexual health services through clinics, education programs, and Sex Sense, their free and confidential sexual health resource and referral service. Michelle Fortin and Nicole Pasquino shared how their work can support PAN members in frontline services, as well as provide professional development for staff and volunteers…. Read more »