Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by a parasite and is an opportunistic infection for people with HIV/AIDS. This pamphlet provides information about transmission, symptoms, testing, treatment, and prevention of toxoplasmosis.

Program agenda and curriculum of a 3 day workshop on capacity building in international AIDS work, held in Quebec in 2002. Participants engaged in a series of activities and exercises aimed at 1) developing their understanding of how to get into partnerships with governmental, non-governmental, and private sector organizations; 2) improving their cultural sensitivities and ability to collaborate cross-culturally; and 3) learning to use the Results-Based Management approach to design and manage their own development-oriented programs and projects. Learning materials used with workshop participants are included in this package.

"Nashine Ginwenimazawin" means "constant care" in the Ojibway language. This training manual provides suggestions and ideas of how to support Aboriginal people going through the last stages of AIDS and who are in need of palliative care. This manual uses a story-telling method to provide education and awareness to people living with AIDS and caregivers. Story-tellers include Aboriginal people living HIV/AIDS; Aboriginal Elders; Aboriginal support persons; and other support persons. Long narratives and short excerpts from narratives are included in the body of the document, along with commentary by the authors. The topics include the question of when a person needs a care team; how care teams work; physical aspects of going through the last stages of AIDS; spiritual and traditional treatments and management of symptoms; emotional issues for both people with AIDS and caregivers; communication issues with medical personnel; legal questions about suicide and euthanasia; and resources available in terms of AIDS service organizations (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal), housing, health care, and palliative care.

Canadian AIDS Society action plan and strategy for addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic among women and girls globally. A key statement throughout is that stopping the epidemic requires adequately funded, sustained, and ongoing responses from all stakeholders, from international human rights bodies to national governments to community-level bodies. These responses must include women and girls in decision-making and solution making. The Blueprint contains a list of demands in the areas of legal, ethical and human rights for women and girls; culturally relevant research on HIV/AIDS, girls and women; efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination; improved access to HIV testing and treatment; prevention and education strategies that respond to women and girls' realities; and health care models that ease women and girls' burden of providing care for others, to the neglect of their own self-care and health.