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Speaking notes for Gary Lacasse to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health

In 2016, Canadian Blood Services reduced the blood donation deferment period of men who have sex with men (MSM) from five years to one. In this presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, Gary Lacasse, Executive Director of the Canadian AIDS Society, makes the case for a behaviour-based screening policy for blood donations […]

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Launch of 2016 World AIDS Day Campaign

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We are pleased to launch the 2016 World AIDS Day Campaign: “Sex Happens”. This campaign has been many months in the making, with input from an advisory panel comprised of a nationally representative group of people living with HIV. The goal of this campaign is to bring attention to the need for continued HIV testing

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Community impacts of federal reallocation of HIV and Hep C funds: Maison Plein Coeur

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Up to 40 % of HIV/Hep C organizations across Canada have been defunded under the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund, the new funding cycle from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Although a year of transitional funding has been put into place by PHAC, the reality is that at the end of

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