CAS is committed to meaningfully engaging youth and helping them find their voice in the HIV movement. Our goal is to connect youth, youth workers and community-based organizations serving youth with each other to ensure that youth have the information and supports they need in their own communities on HIV/AIDS and related issues.
In a clear demonstration of its commitment, CAS has enshrined in its organizational bylaws a position of Youth Director reserved for a young person with lived experience on its Board of Directors. The Youth Director has in turn created a Youth Council with representatives across the country to help guide CAS in its activities involving young PLWHIV.
Over the years, CAS has led and participated in several national programs with and for youth, including:
- the development of a tool to increase the capacity of CBOs to engage youth in their services, developed in partnership with YouthCO.
- In 2012, a national youth committee created the 9th module of the GIPA Training Toolkit: Stepping Out, Getting Involved: Integrating Youth Living with HIV.
In 2015, twenty-two youth living with HIV, representing all regions of the country, were invited to participate in our first annual National Youth Forum in Ottawa.
The publications, reports, facts sheets and toolkits below include information that are particularly relevant to youth issues surrounding HIV.
Call for Nominations: Multiple Positions on CAS Board
The Canadian AIDS Society is looking for nominations for multiple positions on its Board of Directors: Atlantic PLWHIV Director up for ...
Analysis of Canada’s 2017 HIV Surveillance Report
In December of 2018, researchers from the Public Health Agency of Canada released the 2017 HIV Surveillance Report. In the ...
Analysis of Canada’s 2016 HIV Surveillance Report
In December of 2017, researchers from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health ...
Update of 2017 PLWHIV Forum
For the past several years, we have hosted a People Living with HIV (PLWHIV) Forum which brings together persons living ...
The CAS Year 2016-17 in Review: Towards Re-igniting our Movement
It’s a changing landscape for the HIV movement — certainly more volatile and unpredictable than any time over the past ...
Nominations and Elections Process: PLWHIV Forum
This document explains the process for electing your Board of Directors. As elections are a serious issue for the Canadian ...
2017 PLWHIV Forum Details
The 2017 PLWHIV Forum will be held June 6-9 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Official Hotel & Meeting Venue: The Hotel Saskatchewan, ...
2017 Summer Student Career Placement
Job Title: STBBI Programming Assistant - Canada Summer Student Job Wage Rate: $13/hr Number of Weeks: 8 Hours per Week: ...
Update regarding the 2017 PLWHIV Forum
First, our sincere apologies for the delay in following up about the Forum/Annual Meeting. For reasons beyond our control, namely ...
2017 PLWHIV Forum Scholarship Application
This form is also available for submission online. The Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) scholarship program offers financial assistance to individuals ...
Call for Nominations: Prairies Regional PLWHIV Director on CAS Board
The Canadian AIDS Society is looking for nominations for the position of PLWHIV Regional Director in the Prairies on its ...
Position Statement: Undetectable Equals Untransmittable
U = U (Undetectable Equals Untransmittable) Not since the introduction of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in 1996 has there been as significant ...
A letter to the Minister of Health
The Canadian AIDS Society has written a formal letter to the Minister of Health, the Honourable Jane Philpott. The letter ...
Public Health Agency of Canada Cutting Funding to Canadian AIDS Service Organizations
[posted on CNW] HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund will leave many Canadians living with HIV or Hep C ...
People living with HIV on effective ART cannot transmit HIV
A great announcement from the US Conference on AIDS: the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS directors has announced ...
TxMAP from National Partner CTAC
Our National Partner CTAC has released a new online tool called the TxMAP. A message from CTAC about TxMAP: CTAC’s ...
Insurance for Persons Living with HIV
CAS applauds Manulife Financial for its decision to offer insurance to Persons Living with HIV. (PLWHIV) This decision should have ...
The Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure Webinar
Everything you need to know on HIV Criminalization In partnership with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, CAS has produced a ...
Young Women’s HIV Prevention Toolkit
Did you know that during sex, HIV is usually more easily transmitted from the male to the female than the ...
Talking about Depression, Anxiety and HIV/AIDS
Talking about Depression, Anxiety and HIV/AIDS examines two specific mental health issues, depression and anxiety, in the context of HIV/AIDS ...
HIV Transmission: Factors that affect biological risk
This document covers the most current scientific understandings of the factors that affect biological risk of HIV infection and transmission ...
Young Gay Men’s Information Sheet Series
This series of resources intended for young gay men includes the following information sheets: HIV 101: A general overview of ...
Positive Prevention Information Sheet Series
HIV is everyone's responsibility. Positive prevention encourages people living with HIV to adopt a holistic approach to life that addresses ...
One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit, Module 8
This resource offers people living with HIV/AIDS a complete guide to patient rights and choosing the treatment that’s right for ...
One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit, Module 9
Module 9 of the GIPA Training Toolkit is written for youth living with HIV and is designed by them. This ...
The Economic Cost of HIV/AIDS in Canada
This report was undertaken to provide an updated estimate of costs related to HIV/AIDS in Canada, with a particular focus ...
Positive Prevention: Towards a Pan-Canadian Framework
If you're living with HIV/AIDS, it’s important for you to know how you can reduce the risk of transmitting HIV ...
Knowledge is our best defence: An HIV/AIDS Education Resource for Canadian Schools (Curriculum)
Based on an analysis of the results of the Survey on HIV/AIDS Education in Canadian Schools, 2008,1 produced by the ...
Knowledge is our best defence: An HIV/AIDS Education Resource for Canadian Schools (Teacher Resources)
Based on an analysis of the results of the Survey on HIV/AIDS Education in Canadian Schools, 2008,1 produced by the ...
PrEP Community Mobilzation Kit
This tool kit informs community advocates about pre-exposure prophylaxis, a potential sate and effective form of prevention against HIV that ...
One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit, Modules i – 7
Module i - 7: One Foot Forward: A GIPA Training Toolkit is a collection of seven educational modules designed by ...
Cannabis as Therapy for People Living with HIV/AIDS: “Our Right, Our Choice”
Ensuring that people living with HIV/AIDS have access to the HIV treatment therapy of their choice is one of CAS' ...