Category: PLDI Blog

Canada Exhibit at International AIDS Conference 2018: Call for Stories

Posted On: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

The Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) wants to showcase Canadian HIV/AIDS stories. This year the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018), hosted in Amsterdam, Netherlands from July 23 to 27, will highlight the theme “Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges.” The Canadian Society for International Health is pleased to be developing and coordinating activities for the… Read more »

PLBC/CATIE Webinar: Peer health navigation in HIV services

Posted On: Thursday, February 8th, 2018

          Peer health navigation is a person-centred approach to guide, connect, refer, educate and accompany people living with HIV through systems of care. This webinar will unpack diverse peer health navigation models and introduce participants to the new CATIE resource Practice Guidelines in Peer Health Navigation for People Living with HIV…. Read more »

GNP+ Calls for Researchers to Acknowledge the Role of People Living with HIV in Their Work

Posted On: Friday, February 2nd, 2018

The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) is calling out to researchers and advocates to acknowledge the essential role that people living with HIV play in research work. In the post, Inclusion and Respect – appreciating the role people living with HIV have with our research partners, the relationship of researchers and PLHIV is… Read more »

Evaluating an Evaluation: A Meta-Evaluation of PAN’s Participatory Approach to the PLDI Impact Evaluation

Posted On: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018

When Pacific AIDS Network decided to take a participatory approach to the Positive Leadership Development Institute’s (PLDI) impact evaluation, we recognized the novelty of the design and wanted to find a way of tracking the successes and challenges of the process for everyone involved in the project. At the same time, we were interested in better understanding the… Read more »

Leadership Training from PLDI: Bored? Get on Board!

Posted On: Monday, December 18th, 2017

        PAN is very excited to announce that we will be hosting a Positive Leadership Development (PLDI)  training: Bored? Get on Board! February 23 – 25, 2018 in Richmond. This training is only open to graduates of the Core Leadership Training (formerly known as “Level I”). The Bored? Get on Board governance… Read more »

Sharing the Findings from the PLDI Impact Evaluation and Celebrating the Contributions that Made It Possible!

Posted On: Monday, August 21st, 2017

We are excited to share a summary of findings and longer report of results for the PLDI Impact Evaluation that took place over the last year. Please find the  summary and report for your reading pleasure! The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) has built the resilience and leadership capacities of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in… Read more »

PAN Presents at CAHR 2017: The BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index and PLDI Impact Evaluation

Posted On: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

Part I of a 2 part series   The Pacific AIDS Network (PAN) had the good fortune of presenting several research and evaluation projects at the recent Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) Conference in Montreal, QC. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet, reconnect, and learn from a diverse group of researchers, people with… Read more »

SmartSexResource – Help with participant recruitment for a BCCDC syphilis prevention study

Posted On: Tuesday, February 28th, 2017

Background British Columbia (BC) is currently experiencing a significant increase in syphilis cases, with infectious syphilis reaching unprecedented rates. Though there has been a slow and steady increase year over year since the early 2000s, a much more significant increase was noted in 2015, with 40% more cases seen compared to 2014. For 2016, the… Read more »

5 Questions with Candice Norris, Peer Evaluator for the PLDI Impact Evaluation

Posted On: Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

Candice is a mother of three beautiful children (2 biological) ages 21, 4, and 3. She is an aboriginal woman from the Cree/Dene nation. Candice happens to be in recovery from substance abuse going on 7+ years. She was diagnosed as being HIV+ 22 years ago when pregnant with her now 21 years old (HIV-)… Read more »

5 Questions with Darcy McFadden, Peer Evaluator for the PLDI Impact Evaluation

Posted On: Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

Darcy joined PAN in the summer of 2016, as one of the new Peer Evaluators working on the PLDI Impact Evaluation team. He comes from a varied career background and is currently a licensed educator and thespian (for anyone who might recall his 2015 Fringe musical – LOCO HERO JOE). Darcy is pleased to have… Read more »