Welcome to Alison, the newest addition to SafeLink Alberta, joining us as our Fund Development Specialist. For those who have yet to have the pleasure to meet her, we wanted to give you an introduction. …
“That part of it people need to see. That they are not alone.” – Monica shares her story in support of Community Voices.
Community Voices is an annual event held to honour World AIDS Day. December 1st marks World AIDS Day, it also marks the beginning of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week. World AIDS Day is an opportunity to …
“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 …
“What I have learned about the drag culture, is that it is deeply rooted in freedom of expression and living your own personal truth.” Meet Mike from First Time in Drag.
The follow entry is from Mike, a person who participated in HIV Community Link’s First Time in Drag event. First Time in Drag is a fundraiser for the Calgary AIDS Walk & Run, where participants …
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 …
“We are all humans; stigma is greater than the diagnosis”
Bill just turned 50, and has been living with HIV for 28 years. He grew up in a home where his family faced multiple challenges: his father struggled with his alcohol use, his sister had …
Rolling it Forward!
The following blog was written by a member of the Women’s Peer Support Group. It presents the candid and personal perspective of an incredible individual who wishes to encourage other people living with HIV to …
I AM STELLA
A story of resilience in the face of domestic abuse and HIV stigma Stella is an African woman who immigrated to Canada early this year as an asylum seeker. The 48-year-old woman landed in Calgary …
Meet Our Team Captains: Joshua Fundraises for the Scotiabank AIDS Walk and Says You Should Too!
In the next couple of weeks, we will bring you the stories of the wonderful Scotiabank AIDS Walk supporters. We will let them explain why they are helping the cause with fundraising, donating or volunteering …
June 2 is International Sex Workers’ Day
June 2 is International Sex Workers’ Day. In 1975, hundreds of sex workers gathered in Lyon, France, to protest their increasingly unsafe working conditions and the violence they were experiencing. Now, in 2017, more than …
