A Valentine’s Day Message from our Ambassadors
A Valentine’s Day Message from our Ambassadors This Valentine’s Day, CANFAR is calling on Canadians to spread messages of love and challenge HIV stigma. Watch as our National Ambassadors share ways you can show your support to people living with HIV and challenge HIV stigma in your community. Problems with watching the full video? Watch […]
CANFAR partners with SExT: Sex Education by Theatre on second national tour
Starting this May 9th, SExT: Sex Education by Theatre in partnership with The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) will once again perform in a national high schools’ tour to promote sexual health education to youth in some of Canada’s most remote communities that are greatly affected by the HIV and STI epidemic. Recently, the […]
LoveIn StigmaOut
LoveIn StigmaOut This February, CANFAR is calling on Canadians to spread the love and challenge HIV stigma. We want Canadians living with HIV to know that they are loved and appreciated – on Valentines Day, and all year round. Problems with watching the full video? Watch the CANFAR Ambassador Love In Stigma Out Video […]
Tunnel Vision Music Video Release
TORONTO – On November 25th, 2018, in honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, SExT: Sex Education by Theatre in partnership with The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) will release their second music video #TunnelVision highlighting the topic of domestic violence. Watch Tunnel Vision Now: November 25th, 2018 marks the International […]
#SafeSox
CANFAR and Bustle Clothing have come together for a limited edition collection of #SafeSox in support of ending HIV in Canada. Launching on November 20th, as we lead up to World AIDS Day on December 1st, CANFAR is encouraging Canadians to purchase one of the 15 limited edition CANFAR + Bustle #SafeSox. Socks will available […]
#ONLYYESMEANSYES
TORONTO – In partnership with The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR), arts-based youth performance group, SExT: Sex Education by Theatre, is set to release brand new music video Bodak Consent on October 2nd, 2018 shining a light on consensual behavior, safer sex practices, and HIV prevention WATCH BODAK CONSENT NOW: On October 2nd, 2018, The Canadian […]
Youth Art Competition 2018
The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) is calling on youth under the age of 30 in select provinces and territories to participate in a national youth art competition with the goal of raising awareness of health services available to young Canadians. We are currently looking for submissions in the following provinces and territories: Newfoundland and […]
Power of the Arts: CANFAR partners with “SExT: Sex Education by Theatre” to educate Canadian youth about HIV prevention
TORONTO – The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) is proud to announce its largest community partnership with arts-based youth performance group, SExT: Sex Education by Theatre, to reach youth in some of the most remote communities in the country that are most affected by the HIV epidemic. Thanks to CANFAR’s Program Sponsors, including the […]
Portraits of Resilience: Trevor Stratton
Trevor Stratton: a CANFAR Ambassador and the definition of resilience. Trevor was diagnosed with HIV in 1990. He found the courage to turn to his community of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation and to the Indigenous HIV and AIDS movement for support. A mix of Ojibwe and English heritage, Trevor found inner-strength […]
Voices for World AIDS Day
This year the social media campaign Voices for World AIDS Day remembers December 1, 1988, the first World AIDS Day. CANFAR had just been founded a year prior, and was already working on its mission of funding HIV research and increasing awareness. CANFAR founders realized research was needed. How is the disease was transmitted? How […]