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Panos Canada closing . . . . .
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Jamaica Exchange
2012
The Vancouver Initiative, Panos Caribbean and Simon Fraser University are actively pursuing plans to bring a group of expert HIV-AIDS practitioners from Jamaica to Vancouver during and immediately after Pride 2012. The Jamaican experts will explore the impacts on HIV prevention of prejudice, stigma and discrimination, in meetings with their Vancouver counterparts, and in public dialogue.
Commonalities lens
"The North-South lens is blurred, cracked and warped. at 50 years old, it's long past its sell-by date."
The "commonalities lens",is a concept which Jon Tinker, Pieter de Vos and William Booth have been developing over the last few years. Instead of focusing on differences between countries and cultures, the commonalities lens homes in on what we share, creating solidarity and the space to learn from one another as equals.
Read more in Drum Beat, Reuters AlertNet and the University of Sussex.
“We tested out the commnalities lens through a ground-breaking visit of Haitian NGO AIDS practitioners to Vancouver. The results were spectacular.” Read more.
The Panos Network
Panos Canada is no longer a part of the Panos Network (www.panos.org), whose work continues in other parts of the world.
The Vancouver Initiative is currently working with Panos Caribbean, and hopes to collaborate with some other Panos institutes in the future.
Panos Canada closes Vancouver Initiative is new NGO
The Panos Institute of Canada is in the process of closing down, and will shortly no longer exist. We thank hundreds of individuals and organisations for their support, as partners, collaborators, board members, advisors and volunteers. Newly-registered as a Canadian NGO, the Vancouver Initiative (VI) will continue much of Panos Canada’s programme. VI will be a leaner, more virtual organisation than Panos Canada. Its board will be William Booth, Pieter de Vos and (in a non-executive capacity) Jon Tinker. These three have been collaborating closely for five years on Panos Canada’s work on HIV-AIDS, and were jointly responsible for the Commonalities Lens, AIDS in Two Cities, the Haiti Exchange and 1001 AIDS Stories.
1001 AIDS Stories
1001 AIDS Stories is a mosaic of words and images, building into a living inventory of HIV-related experiences.
Each personal narrative comes from someone whose life has been affected by HIV/AIDS.
The first project of the Vancouver Initiative, 1001 AIDS Stories is an exciting, dynamic and inclusive platform for people to communicate about AIDS through storytelling, pictures and comments. It will link to online social networks, engage diverse cultures and communities, be a portal for HIV information and ideas, and act as a hub for AIDS advocacy and support.
Our aim is to build a deeper, more nuanced understanding of AIDS today. This isn’t the impersonal analysis of experts, but is growing organically from deeply-felt personal insights.
The first authors include Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr and Ottawa poet Shane Rhodes, plus tales from Romania, Catalonia and South Africa. And why a lawyer was eating out of a dumpster.
" Cities are HIV/AIDS crucibles. They suffer the most intense impacts, and they create the most innovative responses. "
Vancouver has outstanding AIDS expertise — in civil society, treatment, research and policy development. But these resources are insufficiently used internationally.
The Vancouver Initiative for AIDS Innovation started as a Panos Canada programme. It aimed to help create a strengthened Vancouver AIDS community, with more deeply-rooted global ties, and with a reinforced social justice image. A city which offers the world innovation in AIDS, making the global struggle more exciting — and therefore more effective.
The three principals of the Vancouver Initiative for AIDS innovation, as a Panos Canada project, were William Booth, former ED of AIDS Vancouver, Jon Tinker, ED of Panos Canada, and Pieter de Vos, public health and inner cities specialist.
Read more about the Vancouver initiative for AIDS Innovatoion
The Haiti Exchange
In November 2008 William Booth, Jon Tinker and Pieter de Vos, in collaboration with Panos Caribbean and Simon Fraser University, hosted a ground-breaking visit of 10 Haitian AIDS experts to Vancouver.
Haitian team members visited Vancouver AIDS organisations to explore commonalities between the situation of HIV/AIDS in both cities. In five days, the team took part in a series of meetings with 20 Vancouver AIDS organisations, culminating in a community dialogue at SFU on World AIDS Day. Click here to read the summary report.
AIDS in Two Cities
In 2006, Piueter de Vos, William Both and Jon Tinker produced 15 matched pairs of photos showing the impacts of HIV/AIDS, and community responses to the epidemic, in Port au Prince, Haiti, and Vancouver, Canada.
In one of the richest cities in the world, and in one of the poorest, the face of HIV/AIDS is remarkably similar.
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