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 »
Community Action Fund
A plea for an urgent change of direction
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… Read More »
Update on transitional funding / agreements from LOI and the need for us to start mobilizing NOW
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… Read More »
Community Impacts of Federal Reallocation of HIV and Hep C Funds: Ally Centre of Cape Breton
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… Read More »
Community impacts of federal reallocation of HIV and Hep C funds: Northern Healthy Connections Society
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… Read More »
Community impacts of federal reallocation of HIV and Hep C funds: Maison Plein Coeur
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… Read More »
A letter to the Minister of Health
The Canadian AIDS Society has written a formal letter to the Minister of Health, the Honourable Jane Philpott. The letter details the problems and potential outcomes of the results from the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund, and calls on Minister Philpott to sit down with us and discuss the situation in a transparent… Read More »
Public Health Agency of Canada Cutting Funding to Canadian AIDS Service Organizations
[posted on CNW] HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund will leave many Canadians living with HIV or Hep C out in the cold, with several established service organizations having their funding partially or completely cut. Ottawa, ON, Canada, October 12, 2016 – Just two weeks after the federal government pledged $804 million to international… Read More »
