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Public Announcement ICAD Closure-Dec1 2021 ICAD IS CLOSING ITS DOORS RAISING CONCERNS OVER THE SUSTAINABILITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORKS AND COALITIONS FIGHTING HIV AND ADJACENT HEALTH ISSUES After 30 years of bringing together a diverse and dynamic membership and allied partners to address HIV- related issues in Canada and globally, ICAD is preparing to close its doors in March 2022 . On this World AIDS Day , we are sounding the alarm for other civil society networks that are fighting off such a situation where it is no longer financially feasible to carry on and play their ever-important roles of convening, advocating and supporting our communities. ICAD’s experience speaks to … Read more 


 

Public Announcement ICAD Closure-Dec1 2021 ICAD IS CLOSING ITS DOORS RAISING CONCERNS OVER THE SUSTAINABILITY OF CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORKS AND COALITIONS FIGHTING HIV AND ADJACENT HEALTH ISSUES After 30 years of bringing together a diverse and dynamic membership and allied partners to address HIV- related issues in Canada and globally, ICAD is preparing to close its doors in March 2022 . On this World AIDS Day , we are sounding the alarm for other civil society networks that are fighting off such a situation where it is no longer financially feasible to carry on and play their ever-important roles of convening, advocating and supporting our communities. ICAD’s experience speaks to … Read more 


 


 


 


 

ICAD is working with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to recruit two members for the Canadian Delegation to the UN High-Level Meeting on HIV (HLM on HIV). We are recruiting one delegate who is a person living with HIV, and a […]

 

Thursday, Oct 28th 2020,
With the date of the ICAD AGM (December 10th, 2020), the Board election process has 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.

Six 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 December 10th, 2020 during ICAD’s virtual AGM . ICAD strongly encourages persons from all regions of Canada (particularly outside of … Read more 


 


 

Parliamentary Reception to Commemorate World AIDS Day and Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week
Speaking Notes from ICAD Executive Director, Robin Montgomery

Co-hosts : Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD), Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, and the all-Parliamentary Global Health Caucus on HIV, TB and Malaria

December 2, 2019 (Ottawa, ON)

Good afternoon everyone.

I’d like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather today is the stunningly beautiful, traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin nation.

My name is Robin Montgomery and I’m the ED of the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development – a Canadian coalition of approximately 100 members from … Read more 


 

By Help Lesotho

Grandmothers are the key support structure for children in Lesotho and are essential to their survival. Many of them have lost their own children and family members to HIV/AIDS, leaving them confused, lonely and grief-stricken.

Despite their own poverty, illnesses and hopelessness, grandmothers have opened their homes and hearts to Lesotho’s orphaned children, filling the role of parents and guardians. They have the burden and the unique opportunity to support their grandchildren to become educated young leaders.

One such grandmother (‘nkhono’), Nkhono ‘Mafese’s life has been a series of tragedies. She became a widower after 20 years of marriage when her husband contracted Tuberculosis from working in … Read more