Dear Minister Philpott, It is with considerable dismay that I find myself once again obliged to write to you regarding troubling issues surrounding the HIV and HCV Community Action Fund (CAF), the flawed Letter of Intent (LOI) process and the subsequent offer of “transitional funding.” Community-based organizations (CBOs) which were defunded by the LOI process […]
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It’s a changing landscape for the HIV movement — certainly more volatile and unpredictable than any time over the past two decades. All of us have been feeling the pressure — at local, regional and national levels. This is particularly true for the over 30% of community-based HIV organizations who will no longer be federally
Last autumn dozens of HIV/Hep C organizations across Canada received a negative response to their proposed projects from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) under the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund — effectively defunding them. This shocking unilateral decision by PHAC affects up to 30% of community organizations combatting HIV and was
