Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Common Misconceptions: A revelation of what positive prevention really is and what it is not.
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Program Elements: A review of how effective positive prevention program address the factors that play a role in HIV risk, including the social determinants of health, universal access to prevention tools, stigma and discrimination and criminalization. It also examines...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF, Video
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Youth from the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora in Canada face many similar issues with respect to the risk of contracting HIV. This fact sheet highlights several key issues affecting both communities of young people. This fact sheet was developed as a companion...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Guiding Principles and Values: An explanation of the key values that form the basis of positive prevention programs, including The Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA) and human rights, diversity, shared responsibility and empowerment, to name...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In both high-income and low- or middle-income countries, indigenous peoples face some of the heaviest burdens of ill health. In particular, indigenous populations face a higher vulnerability to HIV due to a range of factors including stigmatization, structural racism...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
In 2000, UN Member States set six Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the international community to achieve by 2015, three addressing global health challenges. In 2005, G8 nations – followed quickly by all remaining UN Member States ‐ set another goal: universal...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) is committed to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Canadian population. As part of this commitment, CAS has been increasing awareness of the need for a viable vaccine as one strategy in a growing range of prevention tools to stop...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
In recent years, there have been promising results from both HIV vaccine and microbicide clinical trials. In the next few years, results are anticipated from a number of other microbicide, vaccine and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trials. As the results of new HIV...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Thirty years into the HIV epidemic, HIV-related stigma and discrimination continue to be pervasive in the lives of people living with HIV. HIV-related stigma and discrimination occur throughout the world – however, they manifest differently and in varying degrees in...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2014
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This information sheet is for persons living with HIV in Canada who are thinking of making a refugee claim or who have already made a refugee claim.This factsheet was produced in partnership with the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic, Ontario, ViiV Healthcare and the Canadian...
