Member of Parliament, Don Davies says “HIV Groups and Organizations are facing closure or serious reduction in service delivery on April 1, 2018”. In a joint news conference with Positive Living BC, MP Don Davies discussed the impact of the Federal Liberal’s cuts to community based HIV organizations across Canada. In British Columbia the Positive ...

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Note: Like Vancouver, American cities, including San Francisco and Philadelphia, are seeing the LGBT community displaced from traditional neighbourhoods by high rents and housing prices – especially seniors. When Ray Rudolph landed in San Francisco in 1976, he knew he’d found his moment. “There were a lot of gay people coming here from all parts ...

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Stigma remains a major problem that discourages people from getting tested Two studies released last month show the tools exist to potentially end the more than three-decades-old scourge of HIV/AIDS, but activists and front-line public health workers in Canada say we simply aren’t using them effectively. The first study found it’s nearly impossible for an HIV-positive person ...

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Health Canada announced today (June 20) that Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec are authorized to reduce the deferral period for blood donations for men who have sex with men (MSM) from five years to one year. The change is a result of proposals from Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec based on scientific data. Men who ...

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Health insurer Pacific Blue Cross is no longer covering a controversial medication that can prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. Letters went out in late April to fewer than 10 people who had been receiving $900 per month in extended health coverage for the once-a-day pill called Truvada, confirmed Joanne Jung, director of ...

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Saskatchewan has a health crisis on its hands. The province continues to have the highest rates of HIV in the country at twice the national average and experts say 70 per cent of new cases are among First Nations and Métis people. “Clearly there’s a lot of work to be done to work with those ...

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