[Viva] Fwd: NEW: PAN at CAHR 2018, PLDI Core Training, new overdose response resources, job postings

Tue May 1 09:14:36 PDT 2018

Thanks Shelly. 

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> On May 1, 2018, at 9:04 AM, shelly tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And here's Pacific AIDS Network weekly newsletter. Info on PLDI training 😄☕
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> From: Janet Madsen <janet at pacificaidsnetwork.org>
> Date: Tue, May 1, 2018, 7:33 AM
> Subject: NEW: PAN at CAHR 2018, PLDI Core Training,new overdose response resources, job postings
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> PAN WEEKLY NEWS May 1, 2018 
> Welcome to PAN Weekly News.  
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> PAN News
> PAN Presents: Posters from CAHR 2018 
> Several PAN staff attended the annual CAHR conference to facilitate, present, and listen to the latest in research. Our contribution included an oral presentation on Positive Living, Positive Homes as well as posters presenting findings from our community-based research studies, the BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index and Positive Living, Positive Homes. If you weren't at CAHR or didn't catch the posters, see them here:
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> The BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index 
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> Positive Living Positive Homes
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> Learn more about our community-based research work. 
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> Fourth in a series: Community Perspectives on Governance at PAN
> This is the fourth in a series of monthly blog posts representing perspectives on potential governance changes at PAN. This post features voices of community from results of the Members and Stakeholders' Survey. Read what people had to say. Continue reading
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> May 18 application deadline for PLDI Core Training, June 21- 24  
> PAN is hosting a Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) - Core Leadership Training June 21-24 at Loon Lake, just outside Vancouver. Core Leadership Training seeks to answer the question: "Who am I as a Leader?" Applications will be accepted until May 18th. Continue reading
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> Overdose Crisis and Response 
> BC's drug-related public health crisis continues, and PAN works to respond to needs identified by our members. Find news here; find other resources updated regularly on our Drug Use and Overdose Response page.
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> NEW: BC to ban pill presses in fight against drug overdose deaths
> BC Solicitor General Mike Farnworth introduced legislation April 25 that would forbid the sale and ownership of pill presses to anyone who is not a health care professional, pharmacist or otherwise licensed to need such a device. Continue reading 
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> NEW: Moms Stop The Harm respond to opioid crisis
> Working as a Family Engagement Lead with BC Centre on Substance Use, Leslie McBain has helped to roll out a document called Close to Home, advocating for, among other things, families to be included in treatment. Continue reading 
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> NEW: These Puppets Show Kids How To Tell If Mom's Overdosing
> American "Lessons From My Neighborhood" PSA campaign takes a cheerful approach to tragic circumstances like parental drug use, child malnutrition, and violence. By using puppets that typically sing about friendship, feelings, and other joys of life, the spots are able to effectively convey how heartbreaking it is that small children are forced to deal with these realities every single day. Continue reading
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> Thursday May 3: Community Dialogue on the Overdose Crisis
> The Lower Mainland Purpose Society is facilitating an Overdose Community Dialogue event in New Westminster on May 3rd.  Interested participants are encouraged to pre-register. Continue reading 
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> Community News
> Reminder: PRICK! STI Testing in Kelowna
> PRICK! is a private and confidential on-the-spot STI testing event for all 'guys who like guys'. The next event is May 10th in Kelowna. Continue reading
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> Advocacy, Policy and Public Health 
> NEW: A chance to correct injustice - don't squander it
> Richard Elliott, Executive Director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network writes: "Last month, with zero consultation with the HIV community, the BC Prosecution Service released an updated policy that leaves the door wide open to a wide array of unjust prosecutions at odds with the available science, with human rights and with good public health practice." Continue reading  
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> NEW: STI Knowledge Among Lesbian and Bisexual Teenage Girls 
> Study finds that the LGB+ girls in focus groups did not fully understand their risk for STIs and had very little STI prevention knowledge. Continue reading 
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> NEW: The Impacts of the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure on Indigenous People: A Case Study of Regina
> This All Nations Hope Network study was presented at the CAHR conference. It shows how criminalization of HIV non-disclosure may impact Indigenous populations (especially Indigenous women) already up against the effects of colonialism and racism. Continue reading
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> Jobs: Paid and Volunteer Opportunities
> NEW: Social Media Coordinator, AIDS Vancouver
> AIDS Vancouver is looking for a social media and digital visionary with exceptional leadership skills; someone who can drive a strategy and realize social media goals and activations within the organization and community. Continue reading
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> NEW: The New Face of HIV
> 'The New Face of HIV', represents a community initiative to better reflect the realities of living with HIV today. It is an education and awareness project that will work with targeted groups who are currently the most impacted by the virus. Continue reading
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> Director, Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections 
> The Director, Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections is responsible for policy related to communicable diseases of primary concern in BC where no vaccine exists, including HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, other sexually transmitted infections, and any new and novel pathogens that may appear in the province (e.g. Ebola). Issues related to these health issues often run the continuum of care from prevention to testing, treatment, care and support. Application deadline May 3.  Continue reading
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