It’s a changing landscape for the HIV movement — certainly more volatile and unpredictable than any time over the past couple of decades. In this climate of uncertainty, the Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) is working to provide meaningful support to organizations and people living with HIV. From Advocacy to HIV Testing Toolkits, you may be… Read More »
Drugs
ACTION = LIFE: Call for an Immediate Response to National Crisis of Opioid Overdose Deaths
The Canadian AIDS Society is proud to be one of the 73 civil society organizations to endorse the Call to Action from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (CAS national partner), the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy, and the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs. The full Call to Action can… Read More »
Peerology: A guide by and for people who use drugs on how to get involved
The Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) is pleased to provide a new resource, Peerology: A guide by and for people who use drugs on how to get involved. CAS adheres to the “Nothing about us, without us” principle and supports the inclusion of people who use drugs in the response to HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. This… Read More »
Positive Prevention: Towards a Pan-Canadian Framework
If you’re living with HIV/AIDS, it’s important for you to know how you can reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to your sexual partners, or in some instances, the people you work for or with, or share drugs with. We invite you to learn about positive prevention strategies that help reduce the risk of HIV… Read More »
Enhancing Capacity to Provide Services for People Who Use Substances: A Needs and Assets Assessment
This bilingual publication, which is a follow-up report to 2008’s Learning from Each Other, explores the perspective of those who provide services to people who use substances. The document summarizes the results of findings from a community-based, multi-phased assessment of the needs and assets of the Canadian AIDS Society’s member organizations with respect to providing… Read More »
Learning from Each Other: Enhancing Community-Based Harm Reduction Programs and Practices in Canada
Objectives of the Project The Canadian Harm Reduction Network and the Canadian AIDS Society collaborated on a project to identify and document effective and innovative harm reduction programs and practices, and to disseminate this information in order to enable organizations across the country to draw on each other’s experiences and successes. They conducted a harm… Read More »
