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Founded in 1989, the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life is one of the largest AIDS fundraising events in Canada, raising more than $8.5 million. In Toronto, the AIDS Walk supports the work of the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT); $330,000 is the goal this year.
Toronto City Council today voted to endorse the Vienna Declaration, a recently released document that highlights the failure of the global War on Drugs and calls for a transparent review of the effectiveness of current drug policies.
The Mounties were set to publicly acknowledge the benefits of projects like the Insite facility. Then they backed away.
Laws and prosecutions as a result of non-disclosure of HIV-positive status are ineffectual, counterproductive and unjust.
Listen to Marco Posadas from the TowelTalk program talk to Proud FM about the bathhouse counselling program housed at ACT.
More people than ever are living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto, and a 6% increase in new HIV diagnoses was recorded in 2008. "Don’t Just Stand There", the 2010 call to action for the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life Toronto, is part of the new media campaign underlining once you have HIV/AIDS, life gets a lot harder.
The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) is celebrating its 20th year with a remarkable fundraiser.
Latinos Positivos is for the Spanish-speaking community with HIV, for their friends, their families, their partners, for anyone that needs help. With funding from PWA, the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), Community One Foundation, Abbott Laboratories and other sources, LP has developed capacity-building initiatives to help community members help themselves.
UNAIDS Executive Director, Mr Michel Sidibé, delivers a keynote speech on "HIV in Cities of the 21st Century” at the International Forum on Cities and Health, 9 August 2010, Shanghai, China.
We need smarter approaches to clinical trials that test more concepts in less time, for less money, while preserving safety, community engagement and ethical guidelines.