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Indigenous Youth Leaders are Taking Action on HIV in their Communities!

September 6, 2016 • By Sarah Flicker and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network

Taking Action II is a community-based action research project about building and supporting Indigenous youth leadership in the HIV/AIDS movement. We are a group of Indigenous youth leaders, Indigenous community-based organizations and university-based researchers. We wanted to create awareness around HIV, sexual health, and decolonization in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities across Turtle Island (also known as Canada).

How The Cedar Project is using mobile phones to engage young Indigenous people who use drugs in HIV prevention and treatment

May 31, 2016 • By Kate Jongbloed

How’s it going?

These three little words have tremendous power. Sent as a simple text message, it creates an opportunity for dialogue between a case manager and a person seeking health care.

Wise Practices: An Indigenous approach to the annual business meeting

August 18, 2015 • By Laurie Edmiston

I recently had the fortune of attending the annual event of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), combining their annual meeting, caucus of Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS (APHA Caucus), skills-building conference and “Wise Practices,” the research conference of CAAN’s Aboriginal HIV & AIDS Community-Based Research Collaborative Centre. The event brought together Indigenous people from across Canada involved in the response to HIV and hepatitis C. Although I attend most years, these gatherings never cease to enthrall and move me.

Indigenous issues front and centre at AIDS 2014

October 14, 2014 • By Trevor Stratton

While much of the media attention this summer focused on the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, a smaller pre-conference held in Sydney brought together Indigenous HIV activists and allies from around the world to discuss the issues facing our peoples.