Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

Resource manual for support workers in community-based AIDS organizations to help them learn how to address the changing face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, particular the increasing needs of drug users who become HIV positive. The manual suggests skills and approaches for providing support to substance users, with chapters on the topics of: Attitudes, Values and Beliefs; Relationships, Boundaries and Ethics; Listening Skills; Self Care; Harm Reduction; Stages of Changing Behaviour; and Policies and Procedures. The manual ends with a comprehensive list of reading resources and national and provincial services dealing with substance use and/or HIV/AIDS.

Special issue on women, HIV and developments in microbicides. Article on understanding the transmission of HIV, biologically; women's empowerment through microbicides; the Global Campaign for microbicides; US advocacy for microbicides; the FDA and microbicides

Paying for Life: The Issues Behind Drug Pricing; Glossary of Drug Pricing Terms; One for the Blipper: Viral Load and Replication Rates - Where's the Link?; Treatment Activists Meet with the FDA; Testimony (of Carlton Hogan) on Accelerated Approval of anti-retroviral drugs, September 1994.

Working Positive: Returning to Life; National Working Positive Coalition (NWPC) Guiding Principles; Choosing an Employment Program; Project KEEP - a 3 year project to identify and develop service strategies for overcoming barriers to employment for people with HIV/AIDS; Group Employment Counselling: "Making a Plan"; Frequently asked Questions about Rehabilitation and Employment Services for PLWHA; Patching the Medical Safety Net; Approval of Sculptra Recommended; Why Work?