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What do Peer-Based Research Associates Need?
By Janet Madsen @janet_madsen On Wednesday I went to a “café scientifique” (a panel of speakers and discussion) called “Employing Peer Based Research Associates: Are we Providing Enough Support?” The...
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“Fairy’s Daughter” a Fine Read
by Janet Madsen / @janet_madsen After months, I finally made it to the top of the wait list at the library and got Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter in my hands. It was well worth the wait. Alison...
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Housekeeping Welcome Home
by Janet Madsen/ @janet_madsen Before it becomes too stale to say it, Happy New Year, everyone! Even now I feel it’s getting a little late to post “Best of 2013″ lists. Amazing how fast that happens....
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No Gay People Here
by Janet Madsen | @janet_madsen Not so long ago I met a woman who, on hearing I’m a lesbian, said she’d never met a gay person before. “We don’t have gay people where I’m from,” she said. I...
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The Battle to Love All Our Parts
by Erin Seatter | @erinlynds Love yourself. Love your body. Heart your parts. With media hyperstandards admitting only slim, elongated physiques, the deleterious impacts on women’s self-concept are...
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Using Theatre and Silence In HIV Education
by Janet Madsen | @janet_madsen I’ve never thought of HIV as chatty, and certainly not coy. People love to give personalities to everything from dogs to death, and HIV is often cast as a vicious...
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Moms and Babies in Prison
by Janet Madsen | @janet_madsen Last night I heard the voices of smart women sharing years of experiences and hard work on supporting mother-baby programs in prisons. It was a great evening hearing...
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The Cedar Project – Turning Trauma to Hope
by Janet Madsen | @janet_madsen The Cedar Project is a community-based research project driven by a number of Aboriginal community partners* and the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome...
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Word of the Day: Compassion
by Janet Madsen | janet_madsen I read a lot of stuff in the course of managing (wrestling is a more accurate word) the social media streams we use- Twitter and Facebook, and to a lesser extent,...
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Forgiveness… In Time
by Janet Madsen | @janet_madsen This wasn’t the first piece I’ve read on how forgiveness can help a person’s mental health. It makes sense. Forgiveness can encourage a sense of peace that eases...
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Forwards, Backwards- Trans Care and Support
by Janet Madsen | @janet_madsen Today is the final day of Transgender Awareness Week, and today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance (#TDOR if you want to check Twitter for what’s happening around...
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Women’s Tips for Coping with Stigma
by Erin Seatter | @erinlynds “I have learned more about taking care of myself and tips on how to cope with stigma.” In early July, support workers Melissa and Sangam facilitated Peer Support Training...
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HIV, Recovery, and Community
by Mrs. Beasley* I was diagnosed with HIV in the fall of 2004, when I was starting treatment for addictions. I was told my diagnosis over the phone, because the doctor assumed I must already know....
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Start With a Name
by Janet Madsen | @janet_madsen Number 17 in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 recommendations calling for action says: We call upon all levels of governments to enable residential school...
View Article‘Life outside this diagnosis’: Violence, HIV, and empowerment
By Erin Seatter | @erinlynds “I never looked at it like I was a person who had experienced domestic violence. I just thought I was a chick who got beat up sometimes.” Empowered: Women, HIV &...
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Winter Greetings
It’s the time of year when we’ve just seen the longest night in the Northern hemisphere. Through the darkness, strings of lights are hung, candles flame through windows, fires crackle in firepits and...
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PWN at 20: If HIV is A Woman’s Issue, Why Don’t Women Speak Out?
In this, our twentieth year, we’re featuring a monthly blog series, PWN at 20 that looks at PWN’s unique place in Canada. Last month we looked at why the "where" is as important as the "how." From...
View ArticleOak Tree Clinic Visionaries Move On with Care
To say that Drs. Jack Forbes and David Burdge have changed women’s lives is no exaggeration. As Co-Directors of the Oak Tree Clinic at BC Women’s Hospital, Forbes and Burdge have cared for thousands...
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PWN at 20: Of Course “Women-Focused” Includes Trans Women
In this, our twentieth year, we’re featuring a monthly blog series, PWN at 20 that looks at PWN’s unique place in Canada. Last month we looked at ‘If HIV is a Woman’s Issue, Why Don’t Women Speak Out?...
View ArticleHomophobia fuels the spread of HIV
Sometimes the hardest blog posts to write are the ones that feel like they should be the easiest. The simple no-brainer issues that seem instinctive to me – Uganda’s proposed anti-gay legislation is...
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