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From Preaching to Practice Application for Research Project Funds

Publication type: 
Project Proposal / Grant Application
Date: 
2003-12-01
Pages: 
23
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
A grant application for the project From Preaching to Practice: Dissemination and Transfer of Research-Based Knowledge About Non Self-Identifying Men Who Have Sex With Men (Nimsm) and Their Partners into Sound Organizational Policy and Practice in the Okanagan. The application includes: a rationale for the project; budget information; a timeline; a list of co-investigators; a confidentiality agreement form; list of collaborators; and an eight page project proposal.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Man2Man Survey

Publication type: 
Miscellaneous
Date: 
2005
Pages: 
10
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
A survey sponsored by the Living Positive Resource Centre, Okanagan to gather information about how to best deliver prevention information to men who have sex with men (MSM).
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Out of the bushes

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
AIDS Resource Centre Okanagan & Region (ARC)
Sponsor: 
Health Canada
Date: 
2002
Pages: 
58
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
The report presents the workshop content, the research plan, and an initial data set collected by participants a the Community Based Research Capacity Building Workshop for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kelowna. The report includes: opening remarks by the facilitator outlining goals and themes of community based research; the agenda for the workshop; the social contract for the group; results from the parking lot and vision exercises; info about ethics; the process for developing the research design; interview role play training; appendices with the transcript of the evening discussion session, cycles of research diagram, research template, informed consent form, and interview questions and transcript.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

CBR Pre and Post Results

Publication type: 
Miscellaneous
Date: 
2002
Pages: 
24
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
The results, shown in pie charts and graphs, collected from surveys completed by participants before and after a Community Based Research Capacity Building Workshop in Kelowna.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Sex out of the City (Out of the bushes and into the bedrooms): The Mating and Dating Habits of the Rural Male in BC

Publication type: 
Research Paper / Project Report
Pages: 
33
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
The document describes the process and findings of a community based research project designed to discover the habits of men who have sex with men (MSM) in rural communities in BC.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Hepatitis C Information Project Program of the Okanagan (HIPPO) Evaluation Report

Publication type: 
Research Paper / Project Report
Agency: 
Living Positive Resource Centre, Okanagan
Date: 
2002-03
Pages: 
25
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
The report is an evaluation of the work undertaken by the Hepatitis C Information Project Program of the Okanagan (HIPPO) during the fiscal year 2001/2002. The report includes background information about the project; objectives and goals of the project; a description of the framework used to evaluate the project; details about internal and external challenges the project has encountered; successes of the project; recommendations for the fiscal year 2002/03; and concluding comments.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Hepatitis C 101

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Date: 
2002-10
Pages: 
25
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
The authors use words, pictures, and charts to relate information about hepatitis C. The PowerPoint presentation includes: definitions of hepatitis A,B and C; a history of Hepatitis C; facts and figures; info about the liver and the progression of the disease; info about symptoms, transmission, prevention, testing, co-infection, treatments, support and living with HCV.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Hepatitis C

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
AIDS Resource Centre Okanagan & Region (ARC)
Pages: 
55
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
A training manual about Hepatitis C for people giving preventive education presentations. The manual includes: steps for getting started; a barriers to care section that explores the influence of values and attitudes on learning; info about injection drug use; a detailed presentation about Hepatitis C including: history, facts and figures, definitions, the liver, info about the progression of the disease, symptoms, transmission, prevention, testing, treatments, co-infections and support for people living with HCV; a definition and strategies for harm reduction; info about safe sex, safer sex, and unsafe sex; condom facts and how to use condoms correctly; a glossary of terms.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Condom Cops return to Central Okanagan

Publication type: 
Media Release
Agency: 
AIDS Resource Centre Okanagan & Region (ARC)
Date: 
2001
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
A media release from the AIDS Resource Centre announcing the approval of the Condom Cops program for the 9th year in Kelowna. The objective of the program is to educate and inform the public about HIV/AIDS.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

Condom Cops: Educating and promoting awareness to the public about at risk activity

Publication type: 
Poster
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan
Summary: 
A poster promoting the Condom Cops program in the Central Okanagan.
Keywords: 
AIDS service organization (ASO); harm reduction; HIV/AIDS

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