Author: SafeLink Alberta Community Outreach Coordinator What Prevents People from Getting Tested for STBBIs? We all know that testing for STBBI is important and should be part of a person’s regular health care check-up and …
“I walk because there is work to be done” – Why Mark walks in the Calgary AIDS Walk & Run.
HIV Community Link’s HEAT Program Coordinator Mark Randall shares why he walks every year in the Calgary AIDS Walk & Run. The AIDS Walk is a 3 month long fundrasier, that raises money for HIV …
World AIDS Day 2018: 35 – 30 – 30
The following blog was written by Mark Randall, HEAT Program Coordinator at HIV Community Link, and it presents Mark’s personal story of living with HIV. It is very surreal to be sitting down and thinking …
Join Us for Our Testing, Tea Dance and BBQ Events
For many in the LGBTQ* community, the “Tea Dance” may not be something that is well known in the modern world of circuit parties, LGBTQ* night clubs and private dance parties. From resorts to cruise …
Community, Capacity Building and Alberta Health Services
On October 26, the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Sexual and Gender Advisory Group, Calgary Zone provided a “Report Back to Community” on what the advisory has managed to accomplish over the past year to build capacity …
Why I Walk
Aside from the obvious factor of my being a person living with HIV for 17 years there are a number of reasons that have me register, raise funds, promote, and walk the route at the …
New Technologies are Changing the Dynamics of HIV Risk
Is a person who does not know their HIV status or who has never been tested pose a higher risk for HIV transmission due to their unknown or assumed HIV negative status than a person on TasP with controlled virus or on PreP and known HIV status? These are some of the questions being raised as a result of these new and emerging technologies.
PrEP
PrEP
Learn this word. It’s going to be a game changer. Keeee—POW!!!!! Outta the park.
Cowboys and Condoms!
YAH HOO! It is that time of year again. The cow folk are restless, the city is in anticipation with business and corporate sectors prepping the multitudes of pancake breakfasts and other Stampede celebration events …
“Undetectable Viral Load, WTF does that mean?”
This is probably the most often asked question I get while doing my community and outreach work with gay and MSM next to “where can I get tested?” It is a word that a number of …
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