Pressing issues for people living with or vulnerable to HIV and AIDS are made worse by Harper government policies.
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day -- Remember Africa
December 1st is World AIDS Day. Here in Canada, we have a choice about how actively to be involved in the issues of AIDS.
The rate of death from AIDS in Canada has declined dramatically. Our public education and health systems -- despite threats from cuts and privatization -- have still been able to carry out broad programs of AIDS education and treatment. Anti-retroviral drugs are freely available.
Thanks to the impressive work of AIDS activists, the stigma and mystery surrounding AIDS have largely disappeared. Although communities with high levels of poverty, homelessness and unemployment are still very vulnerable, the majority of our members do not live in daily fear of this life-threatening virus.
The AIDS crisis in Africa
Students push past "AIDS fatigue" to engage the UBC community with World AIDS Day
| November 30, 2009HIV and human rights in Canada: Top five issues on World AIDS Day 2011
On World AIDS Day, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network would like to draw your attention to some of the most pressing issues for people living with or vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. Of course, this list is by no means exhaustive, as the fight to stem the tide of this epidemic is multi-faceted and complex. But these are the issues playing out here at home which demand immediate attention.
Access to medicines, globally and domestically
World AIDS Day: Prevention measures could reduce new HIV cases 95 per cent by 2020
Today is World AIDS Day. This year's UNAIDS theme is "Getting to Zero: zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths." And there's been success -- globally, annual new HIV infections fell 21 per cent between 1997 and 2010. The number of AIDS-related deaths has also decreased from a peak of 2.2 million per year in the mid-2000s to 1.8 million in 2010. A key game-changer has been getting more HIV treatment to more people who need it.
AIDS Action Now! poster/virus and day with(out) art
Nov 30 2011 - 6:00pm
Nov 30 2011 - 9:30pm
Location
AGO
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M5T 1G4Canada
43° 39' 13.2372" N, 79° 23' 32.4204" W
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Featuring performances by Kiki Ballroom Alliance and the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy
Contact name:
Nicole Greenspan
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Harper is creating an AIDS crisis in Canada
In time for World AIDS Day, AIDS Action Now launched an advocacy video calling for the end of the Harper government's denial of the right to health for Canadians living with and affected by HIV and Hepatitis C. For more info visit: AIDS Action Now.
Not Rex: Criminalizing people with HIV doesn't protect public health
This week on Not Rex, Shawn Syms argues: Sexually active people with HIV are not intrinsically devious and dangerous. No more so than all redheads are. Or any other definable group.
Has a person with HIV ever deliberately deceived someone about their status and intentionally, maliciously passed on the virus? Yes. But in Canada, the law casts the net far, far wider than that, locking up people with HIV who've never harmed anyone.
World AIDS Day Launch Party: EMPOWER: YOUTH, ARTS AND ACTIVISM
Nov 26 2009 - 6:00pm
Nov 26 2009 - 9:00pm
Location
University of Toronto
45 Willcocks St. New College William Doo Auditorium. *wheelchair accessible
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 39' 40.59" N, 79° 24' 2.61" W
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T-Shirt Making! Drag Shows! Visual Art Exhibitions! Interactive Panels! You-Tube Screenings! Come out to an interactive, action-packed WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT with performances, exhibitions and discussions by:
Kim Simard, Prise Positive
Jay, Romeo and company, sprOUT, Griffin Centre
Nidhi Punyarthi, Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention
Jessica Yee, The Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Jessica Whitbread, No Pants No Problem Party Organizer
Henry Luyombya, Peer Educator, Planned Parenthood.
David Lewis-Peart and Mary Yehdego, BlackCAP
Shane Camastro, The Sexual Health Education and Pleasure Project
Jenn Yee, Visual Artist
Lulu Gurney and Aaron Chan, Youth CO
and More!
This is a FREE Event.
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