Positive Living BC Presentation – Postcards from Durban: Updates from the 21st IAC
Posted On: Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
Tag: valerie nicholson
Universities Without Walls: What’s hot with PRAs in Canada part 8
Posted On: Monday, August 31st, 2015
Wednesday, September 30th, 2:00 PM EST “What’s Hot with Peer Research Associates (PRAs)?” is an online talk show about community-based research that has people living with HIV as the main protagonists. 8th Edition : “GIPA/MIPA: I’ve heard of it.” hosted by James Watson The Greater and more Meaningful involvement of PLHIV is based on the idea… Read more »
Living Longer with HIV
Posted On: Monday, August 31st, 2015
Originally posted in the Vancouver Courier, August 19, 2015 by Emily Blake Bradford McIntyre never expected to live to be 63. A year after he was diagnosed with HIV in 1984, he was told he had only six months to live. But he beat the odds and is one of many Canadians now aging with… Read more »
Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week shines a light on HIV rates among indigenous people
Posted On: Thursday, December 12th, 2013
5 Questions with Researcher Surita Parashar
Posted On: Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Surita Parashar helps facilitate “The way I see it,” a community based research project that uses Photovoice methodology to examine the impact of housing on health as seen through the eyes of people living with HIV and AIDS in Vancouver. The project is led by a team of Community Researchers – Randy, Rob, Valerie, Lora,… Read more »
5 Questions with Peer Researcher Valerie Nicholson
Posted On: Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Valerie Nicholson is a grandmother, mother, and proud resident of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). She is the co-founder of the Harvest Organic Coop, a fruit and veggie coop for people with compromised immune systems, those affected and infected, housed (gratefully!) at AIDS Vancouver. She is also a nutritional outreach worker for the DTES Kitchen Tables… Read more »