YouthCO and Positive Women’s Network partnered on the WISE Project, working to increase young women’s access to integrated care, treatment, support and prevention within clinic-based settings. WISE staff and volunteers worked in direct partnership with clinics throughout Vancouver to better ensure that young women (aged 15-29) were receiving proper medical care and HIV treatment. The WISE Project used a peer-based model to promote community and provide important information for young HIV+ women, helping them define what support means for them.
In 2007, as an extension of the WISE Project, YouthCO and PWN commissioned a research project to describe, explore, and explain the barriers that young women living with HIV face in accessing primary health care services.