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Vancouver/Richmond Health Board Action Plan to Combat HIV/AIDS in the Downtown Eastside - For Immediate Release

Publication type: 
Media Release
Agency: 
Vancouver/Richmond Health Board (VRHB)
Date: 
1997-10-23
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Press release by the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board (VRHB) announcing its intention to allocate 3.7 million dollars to implement a new action plan to address HIV/AIDS in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The Board will increase the number of needle exchange sites; increase community outreach services; institute an epidemiology surveillance committee; and address determinants of health such as poverty, housing and transportation. The Board's decision to increase funding is in response the HIV/AIDS epidemic being declared a public health crisis in Sept. 1997.
Keywords: 
Vancouver/Richmond Health Board (VRHB); Downtown Eastside; DTES; action plan; HIV/AIDS; needle exchange; outreach; health services; harm reduction; drugs; drug users; addictions

For Immediate Release: On the Morning of Tuesday July 11th, Two Thousand Crosses Planted in Oppenheimer Park - Each Cross Symbolizes a Death from Illicit Drug Overdose in BC since 1990

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Date: 
2000
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Announcement of an upcoming demonstration organized by VANDU and the Harm Reduction Action Society (HRAS) to commemorate drug users who have overdosed in the Downtown Eastside since 1990. Plans for the day include a protest at Main and Hastings; speakers, music and food at the Park; and a press conference. This will be the second demonstration of its kind - the first was in 1997.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); overdoses; Oppenheimer Park; drug users; deaths; death rates; activism

VANDU Demonstration Leaflet

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Date: 
1998
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Leaflet distributed at a 1998 protest of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). The leaflet gives statistics showing that overdose deaths in BC are still increasing. It states the need for more detox beds; safe injection sites; and the legal prescription of heroin and cocaine in order to reduce overdose death and disease rates.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); overdoses; drug users; deaths; death rates; activism

Fact Sheet - British Columbians are dying at unprecedented rates from completely preventable diseases and from drug overdose deaths

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Advocacy leaflet by Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) protesting the unnecessary deaths and diseases faced by drug users in BC and demanding harm reduction programs to address the problems. The leaflet provides basic facts about the high health care costs that result from not instituting harm reduction programs. VANDU recommends that initiation of safe injection rooms; legal heroin prescription; and adequate, accessible drug treatment to address disease epidemics and drug overdose deaths.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); harm reduction; safe injection sites; prescription heroin; addictions; drug users; treatment

Getting it Together - Together

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Brief paper written by a past president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). The author describes his own history of addiction and how he became involved with VANDU. He describes how VANDU provides an opportunity for social interaction; access to information and resources; outreach programs and a volunteer program. Most importantly, VANDU provides an opportunity for individual users to have a strong and collective voice in order to advocate for the rights of drug users and change public attitudes.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); addiction; drugs; advocacy; harm reduction

Summary of presentation given by Dr. A. Wodak at VANDU, April 30th, 2000

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Date: 
2000-04-30
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Notes by VANDU staff about a presentation given by a doctor about the experience of setting up a safe injection site (SIS) in Sydney, Australia. The doctor gave arguments for establishing an SIS - health benefits; reduction of public nuisance; drug users can avoid arrest and interaction with police; and long-term health care savings. A description of the SIS in Australia was given, in terms of its rooms and rules, and the history of community advocacy, coalition building and campaigning around it.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); safe injection site (SIS); harm reduction; injection drug use (IDU); Australia

Preventing Heroin Overdose: Pragmatic Approaches - Friday, January 14, 2000.

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Date: 
2000-01
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Announcement of upcoming presentations to be given by members of VANDU. It provides a brief description of VANDU as an organization and gives biographical information about each of the presenters. It gives the titles and brief descriptions of the presentations to be given. These include a presentation on overcoming barriers to form user-run groups; a presentation on the dilemmas of users "coming out" in community organizing and then applying for housing and jobs in the area; and a presentation on how user groups can change the culture of shame and denial about relapses, thereby reducing overdose deaths.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); advocacy; drug users; harm reduction

Hepatitis C Between You and Me

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Native Health Society; Healing Our Spirit
Sponsor: 
Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Date: 
2005-05
Pages: 
29
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Educational brochure directed at patients and the general public, that provides basic information about Hepatitis C infection. Topics addressed include the functions of the liver; transmission and prevention of Hepatitis C; symptoms, diagnosis and prognosis; nutrition and lifestyle factors; coinfection with HIV; and Hepatitis C treatments. It concludes with a glossary that gives definitions of medical words related to Hepatitis C.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Native Health Society; diagnosis; coinfection; dual diagnosis; liver; Healing Our Spirit; Hep C; HCV; HIV; Hepatitis C; treatment; prevention

Protecting global health and human rights: Why and how the Patent Act should be amended to allow generic drug exports to developing countries

Publication type: 
Position Paper
Agency: 
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Date: 
2003-10
Pages: 
4
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Brief position paper arguing for changes to the Canadian Patent Act so that generic and cheaper HIV medicines can be exported to poor countries in the developing world. The paper describes the following: Why cheaper, generic drugs are needed in developing counties; World Trade Organization rules regarding drug exports; and how the Patent Act should be amended (by not limiting exports to emergencies; not limiting exports to only certain countries; and allowing drugs that treat any health condition (e.g., diabetes) to be exported.
Keywords: 
patents; Patent Act; developing countries; Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); drugs; pharmaceuticals; health care; medicines; World Trade Organization (WTO); anti-retrovirals (ARVs); HIV treatment; Canada; prescription drugs

Attention: VANDU members who will be attending the meeting in Strathcona Community Centre (about the possibility of a Resource Centre for Drug Users)

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Date: 
2000-01-11
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Leaflet for members of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) planning to attend a community meeting to discuss the possibility of instituting a new resource centre for drug users in the Downtown Eastside. It gives a list of concerns already identified by the wider community during a 2nd consultation (e.g.: fears of discarded needles around a public school; that the centre will attract drug dealers and users from outside the area; that there is no Society in place to manage the proposed resource centre.) The leaflet VANDU members to consider the concerns so that they can address them at the upcoming meeting.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); Strathcona; Downtown Eastside (DTES); resource centre; drug users; school; addictions

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