Monthly Archives: February 2024

Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) and Ontario Positive Asians (OPA+) invite you to join us at the 2024 PADENA In Canada Virtual Conference. PADENA (Positive Asian Diasporic Experiences in North America) is a gathering of Asian* people living with HIV, featuring presentations by Asian PHAs, subject matter experts, service providers, peer workers, artists, activists, researchers, and community members. (*Including East, Southeast, South, Middle Eastern/West Asians, and Indo-Caribbeans.) Four online sessions will take place between February and March 2024. To register, please use the links below: Details Dates/Times (7:00 pm to 8:30 PM EST) Topics Register  Links More details February 15, 2024 Collective resiliency and the current landscape   Poz Asian Action: Global and Local Advocacy     Click here for the link Kero Saleib (Collective resiliency and the current landscape) Kero Saleib (they/them- he/him), is an Egyptian born Canadian, Non-binary, Queer, HIV positive, human with a resilience for life. They have worked for over 12 years in the HIV/AIDS sector as program coordinator and counsellor in mental health, sexual health and addictions. They are the founder of Canada's only Queer Middle Eastern party - Middle Eastern Nights, where they get to bring out their drag perona, KeroPatra InDenial. Kero now works within the manufacturing sector as Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility lead, bringing necessary challenges, change and policy implementation to manufacturers and helping them fill the gaps by working and hiring newcomers into the skilled labour workforce. " A Kero of all trades is a master of none but oftentimes better than a master of one." Christian Hui (Poz Asian Action: Global and Local Advocacy) Diagnosed with HIV since the age of 25, Christian Hui (he/they; Undetectable) is a long-term post-HAART survivor, a global HIV/AIDS and U=U activist and harm reduction advocate, and a doctoral CIHR Vanier Scholar [...]