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Webinar Announcement : “The Strengths and Challenges of Providing HIV/AIDS Services to the African, Caribbean and Black Communities in Canada”

The Canadian AIDS Society, together with the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, and Area (ACCKWA), the AIDS Committee of Guelph and Wellington County, and Somerset West Community Health Centre, is pleased to invite you to participate in a webinar that highlights the best practices and explores the challenges of serving heterogeneous African, Caribbean and Black Populations in Canada.

Date and Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, from 2 pm to 3 pm EST

      Co-presenters:

        · Mercy Gichuki, African Caribbean Strategy Coordinator, ACCKWA and AIDS Committee of Guelph and Wellington County

        · Jane Karago-Odongo, African and Caribbean HIV Prevention Strategy Worker, Somerset West Community Health Centre

This session is recommended for service providers working with ethnocultural communities, policy-makers, staff in community health centres and all those who want to improve the response to HIV/AIDS in Canada’s ethnocultural communities.

Regrettably, this session is only offered in English. A French translation of the presentation will be available on the Canadian AIDS Society website shortly after the webinar.


To register or to obtain more information, please contact Logan Broeckaert at loganb@cdnaids.ca Information on how to access the webinar will be circulated prior to January 24, 2012.

Webinar Announcement : “The Strengths and Challenges of Providing HIV/AIDS Services to the African, Caribbean and Black Communities in Canada”. © Canadian AIDS Society. Published 01/10/2012. Updated 01/26/2012. Web. Retrieved 05/23/2012 from http://www.cdnaids.ca/webinar-announcement-the-strengths-and-challenges-of-providing-hivaids-services-to-the-african-caribbean-and-black-communities-in-canada