CANFAR Announces New Partnership with Seneca College’s School of Media
CANFAR is proud to announce a new partnership with Seneca College’s School of Media. Students from the Public Relations-Corporate Communications program will help to promote this year’s upcoming Bloor Street Entertains gala, which takes place on Wednesday, November 28, 2018. CANFAR has been privileged to have the support for many years of Seneca’s Event Management program, led...
Categories: CANFAR General|Events | Posted on: June 14, 2018
Thank you to the Team at Raymond James
All of us at CANFAR would like to extend a special thank you to the team at Raymond James, for both volunteering their time at this year’s “AIDSbeat Goes to the Movies” event on Friday, May 4, 2018 and for their extremely generous donation of $2,500. This is the second year in a row that...
Categories: Community|Sponsor Spotlight | Posted on: May 25, 2018
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...
Categories: Awareness|Community|HIV Prevention | Posted on: May 2, 2018
Ending the HIV Epidemic in Canada by 2025
In Canada, we have reached a point where the number of new HIV diagnoses annually has not decreased. But how close are we to ending HIV in Canada? It is estimated that 2,570 people became infected with HIV in Canada in 2014, only slightly lower than in 2011. This is about one new infection every...
Categories: Research | Posted on: April 23, 2018
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...
Categories: Awareness|Community|Profiles | Posted on: April 17, 2018