ICAD congratulates Albert Beck , Alexandra de Kiewit (Intervenante et éducatrice en réduction des risques et méfaits, Le Dispensaire), and Muhammad Furqan Waleed (Positive Programs Manager, YouthCO HIV and Hep C Society), the three civil society representatives who have been selected to join the Canadian delegation to the UN High Level Meeting on HIV. We are grateful to have the voices of these three individuals sharing their perspectives based on their lived experiences and representing their organizations on the Canadian delegation!
UNAIDS

Every year, Canada, along with other signatories of the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast-Track to Accelerate the Fight against HIV and to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 , reports on its progress towards meeting the commitments. The Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) was contracted by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to solicit feedback from Canadian civil society organizations about the status of, and response to, Canada’s HIV epidemic in the past two years to inform Canada’s submission of the 2020 Global AIDS Monitoring Report (GAM) to the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS). The GAM … Read more

The Canadian HIV/AIDS Black, African and Caribbean (CHABAC) Network has been listed as a good practice model to help mobilize African, Caribbean and Black communities (ACB) in other countries to consider developing a similar regional hub model to engage ACB communities for country-level impacts funded by their national governments.
The 2018 NGO Report to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board is intended to help renew and focus the dialogue around people on the move so that the 2030 target of ending AIDS as a public health threat can be achieved. It represents the NGO Delegation’s contribution to support Member States to ensure that mobile populations are covered for services across their … Read more
UNAIDS - Past Time to Get SeriousJune 10, 2018
40 th UNAIDS PCB Thematic Segment: HIV Prevention 2020: A Global Partnership for Delivery Panel: What is required for prevention scale-up Delivered by: Robin Montgomery, Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) I speak on behalf of the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) – a Consortium of over 100 Canadian-based front-line and international development partners, community leaders and advocates. Thank you very much to our esteemed panelists and to the working group who have organized today’s very important thematic segment. One issue we haven’t heard about today – but yet constitutes a key driver of new infections around the world – is the growing level of HIV complacency. … Read more
The Public Health Agency of Canada will soon launch a survey to solicit feedback from Canadian civil society organizations about the status of, and response to, HIV in Canada. The survey will inform the development of Canada’s 2017 Global AIDS Monitoring Report to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). This webinar will highlight the significance of the Global AIDS Monitoring Report, linking it to Canada’s commitments under the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. Civil society and community input will form an important part of Canada’s report. The webinar will provide participants with an opportunity to understand the reporting process, and to ask questions and obtain … Read more