by CAYR Community Connections | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog Archive
This past year the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) held its annual gathering, on the theme of “transforming wholistic approaches to Indigenous health.” It’s a gathering of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people, combining a business meeting, a gathering of...
by CAYR Community Connections | Feb 1, 2018 | Blog Archive
So Wednesday January 31st 2018 was Bell’s ‘Let’s Talk’ day, a day surrounding the promotion of mental health communication and awareness. I wanted to see how the day went with this campaign and it turned out quite successful, you can read more about it here: Bell...
by CAYR Community Connections | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog Archive
It’s official! The Government of Canada supports U=U, the consensus statement that a person living with HIV does not transmit the virus sexually if they take treatment and maintain an undetectable viral load (“undetectable = untransmittable”). The news came on...
by CAYR Community Connections | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog Archive
It is a new year, and a lot of us tend to enter the new year with resolutions. Some last and work out, some don’t. Thing is, you can really make a resolution at any time, not just when entering the new year. Regardless of what resolution we may choose, one that I...
by CAYR Community Connections | Nov 22, 2017 | Blog Archive
I started here at the AIDS Committee of York Region back in the late Fall of 2014 and our organization was just preparing for a big move. I think it is safe to say that all staff, board and volunteers of ACYR, even community partners, service users and everyone else...
