September 2017 | Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development

New Dates for ICAD Annual Meeting!
September 28, 2017

Dear ICAD Members, I hope this note finds you all well and that your transition from summer season to the fervour of fall has been invigorating. It’s an exciting time with many events and activities underway within Canada’s domestic HIV and HCV/STBBI sector, the country’s global engagement, and recent advances in global health and international development. In our rapidly changing domestic and international context, we are thrilled to have the opportunity to hold ICAD’s Annual Members’ Meeting on November 22 in Toronto, ON – the eve of the 2017 CATIE Forum, Transforming our practice: New knowledge, new strategies. Our 2017 Members’ Meeting will see the unveiling of our 2017-2020 Strategic … Read more →

Job Posting: CHABAC Project Coordinator
September 27, 2017

CHABAC Project Coordinator Part-time (.5 FTE); 4.5 year project Dependent on project funding ICAD is a Coalition of over 100 Canadian AIDS service organizations (ASOs), non-governmental development organizations, unions, faith-based organizations, and individuals involved in HIV, AIDS and international development. ICAD helps Canadians contribute to international HIV/AIDS work and ensures that the lessons learned from the global response to HIV/AIDS are utilized by Canadian organizations to improve prevention, care, treatment and support work in Canada. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Black, African and Caribbean Network (CHABAC) is a national network of organizations, individuals and other stakeholders who are dedicated to responding to issues related to HIV and AIDS in Canada’s African, Caribbean … Read more →

Ontario to cover HIV prevention pill under public health plan
September 22, 2017

CBC News - Ontario will soon cover a combination HIV prevention pill that is now available in generic form, HIV advocates say.

Africa to get state-of-art HIV drugs for $75 a year
September 21, 2017

Kate Kelland/Ben Hirschler, Reuters - Global health experts hope the deal will help address two looming problems in the HIV epidemic - the rising threat of resistance developing to standard AIDS drugs, and the need for more investment in manufacturing […]

GIPA Takes a Hit
September 20, 2017

By Bob Leahy, PositiveLite.com - As Funding Starts To Slow, Engagement And Involvement Of People Living With HIV Is Often The First To Go. Bob Leahy On The Politics Of Inclusion, Exclusion And How People Living With HIV Are Fighting […]

Coates: Helping Indigenous Peoples is about more than embracing UN declarations
September 20, 2017

By Ken Coates, Ottawa Citizen - The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is about accepting the legitimacy of Indigenous governments and allowing Indigenous Peoples and communities to set the policy agenda and funding priorities. And […]

Opioid stats coming into focus, but impact on Indigenous communities largely unknown
September 15, 2017

By Catharine Tunney, CBC News - Lack of 'fair and even access' to treatment on First Nations a problem, says new Indigenous services minister

S.O.S. Venezuela: Urgent solidarity needed! [ICASO]
September 14, 2017

There is a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, the home country of our Executive Director Mary Ann Torres. This is a crisis of many facets, but it is above all, humanitarian: people are dying of hunger. People are dying of preventable, […]

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