ICAD requires the services of a highly-skilled consultant to work with ICAD staff to develop both a policy brief and fact sheet focused on Indigenous approaches to harm reduction. Deadline for applications: Monday, November 13, 2017 at 17:00 ET. A. BACKGROUND ICAD is a coalition of over 100 Canadian organizations and individuals that provides leadership in the response of Canadian international development organizations and Canadian HIV/AIDS organizations to reduce the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic at home and abroad. Founded in 1989, the Coalition is made up of Canadian AIDS service organizations, international development non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, trade unions, educational institutions, academics, researchers and consultants from across the country. … Read more
Month: <span>October 2017</span>
Young women are left out of HIV/AIDS victoriesOctober 30, 2017
This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post . By Lebogang Motsumi
I was first diagnosed with HIV eight years ago, and only then did I notice that every year, the international community comes together to celebrate the progress they have made in fighting this virus.
This progress is reported by the United Nations, which tracks the number of people around the world who take the drugs that I take. The UN is proud–justifiably so–that more and more people who have HIV can keep the infection in check.
These drugs, known as antiretroviral medicines, or ARVs, stop the virus from spreading and knocking out my immune system. The drugs help … Read more
October 19, 2017, Toronto, CANADA and Caracas, VENEZUELA Venezuela is in the middle of an unprecedented, state-made, complex humanitarian emergency with severe and widespread social consequences, including for people living with and affected by HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, ICASO and ACCSI said today in launching a new report. International inaction has set the stage for a rapidly worsening disaster in 2018. “In May 2017, the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria voted to support a regional response to the crisis,” said Mary Ann Torres, executive director of ICASO. “But this has not yet materialized.” Venezuela’s government denies the crisis, and blocks publication of health data … Read more
Deadline Extended – ICAD Board NominationsOctober 12, 2017
NEW DEADLINE: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 With the new date of the ICAD AGM (November 22) , the Board election process has been re-opened. ICAD kindly invites all eligible members to submit their nomination for ICAD’s incoming Board of Directors. The Board consists of four officers (President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer) and not more than five other Directors. Two of these positions are reserved for persons living with HIV. Four of ICAD’s nine Board positions are up for election this year. Directors are elected for a two-year term at the Annual General Meeting on November 22, 2017 in Toronto, ON. ICAD strongly encourages persons from all regions of Canada to … Read more
Discrimination in health care settings remains a grim reality for people living with HIV and key populations, such as men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who use drugs, and sex workers. Young people, migrants, indigenous populations, people […]
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