CAS is committed to meaningfully engaging youth and helping them find their voice in the HIV movement. Our goal is to connect youth, youth workers and community-based organizations serving youth with each other to ensure that youth have the information and supports they need in their own communities on HIV/AIDS and related issues.
In a clear demonstration of its commitment, CAS has enshrined in its organizational bylaws a position of Youth Director reserved for a young person with lived experience on its Board of Directors. The Youth Director has in turn created a Youth Council with representatives across the country to help guide CAS in its activities involving young PLWHIV.
Over the years, CAS has led and participated in several national programs with and for youth, including:
- the development of a tool to increase the capacity of CBOs to engage youth in their services, developed in partnership with YouthCO.
- In 2012, a national youth committee created the 9th module of the GIPA Training Toolkit: Stepping Out, Getting Involved: Integrating Youth Living with HIV.
In 2015, twenty-two youth living with HIV, representing all regions of the country, were invited to participate in our first annual National Youth Forum in Ottawa.
The publications, reports, facts sheets and toolkits below include information that are particularly relevant to youth issues surrounding HIV.

Call for Nominations: Multiple Positions on CAS Board
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Analysis of Canada’s 2017 HIV Surveillance Report
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Analysis of Canada’s 2016 HIV Surveillance Report
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Update of 2017 PLWHIV Forum
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The CAS Year 2016-17 in Review: Towards Re-igniting our Movement
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Nominations and Elections Process: PLWHIV Forum
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2017 PLWHIV Forum Details
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2017 Summer Student Career Placement
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Update regarding the 2017 PLWHIV Forum
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2017 PLWHIV Forum Scholarship Application
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Call for Nominations: Prairies Regional PLWHIV Director on CAS Board
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Position Statement: Undetectable Equals Untransmittable
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A letter to the Minister of Health
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Public Health Agency of Canada Cutting Funding to Canadian AIDS Service Organizations
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People living with HIV on effective ART cannot transmit HIV
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TxMAP from National Partner CTAC
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Insurance for Persons Living with HIV
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The Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure Webinar
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Young Women’s HIV Prevention Toolkit
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Talking about Depression, Anxiety and HIV/AIDS
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HIV Transmission: Factors that affect biological risk
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Young Gay Men’s Information Sheet Series
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Positive Prevention Information Sheet Series
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One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit, Module 8
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One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit, Module 9
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The Economic Cost of HIV/AIDS in Canada
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Positive Prevention: Towards a Pan-Canadian Framework
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Knowledge is our best defence: An HIV/AIDS Education Resource for Canadian Schools (Curriculum)
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Knowledge is our best defence: An HIV/AIDS Education Resource for Canadian Schools (Teacher Resources)
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PrEP Community Mobilzation Kit
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One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit, Modules i – 7
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Cannabis as Therapy for People Living with HIV/AIDS: “Our Right, Our Choice”
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