The Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare is “leading a national dialogue on how to implement affordable national pharmacare for Canadians and their families, employers and governments.” Many sector The Advisory Council is planning a Town Hall (Community Dialogue Session) in Toronto on Monday, September 24, 2018 from 7:00pm – 8:30 pm. Here is a link to register for the Town Hall. If you are not in the Toronto area, you can visit the Council’s online consultation platform, send a written submission via email or complete an online questionnaire. HALCO provides free legal advice for people living with HIV in Ontario about access to drug benefits and other

Of course the reason for our Annual General Meeting is to bring together our Membership to elect new Board Members and approve the addition of other organizations to our provincial Membership. Congratulations to our 2018 – 2019 Board of Directors: Co-Chair: John McCullagh, Central Declared Co-Chair: Janet Rowe, Central Undeclared Board Treasurer: Kim Dolan, Eastern Undeclared Board Secretary: Gord Asmus, Eastern Declared Holly Gauvin, Northern Undeclared Fred Young, Northern Declared Les Bowman, Western Declared Tim McClemont, Western Undeclared Asunta Wagura, At-Large Declared Dale Maitland, At-Large Declared Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp, At-Large Undeclared We also welcomed the following organizations to the Ontario AIDS Network Membership: Centre francophone de Toronto as an Affiliate

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.12.1″ custom_margin=”0px|||” custom_padding=”0px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.12.1″ custom_margin=”0px|||” custom_padding=”0px|||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.12.1″] Thank you to all of the Members, Affiliate Members and Delegates for your meaningful participation in this year’s Annual General Meeting. The Ramada was bursting with enthusiasm and spirited discussion – certainly a gathering to remember. On Thursday night, our PHA Body Dinner was attended by 30 PHAs from across Ontario; our Networking Meeting on Friday hosted 69 participants and our Saturday meeting — where we formally elected four new and two returning members to our Board of Directors and approved the addition of three new agencies to our family — hosted 52 participants. These

The Ontario HIV Treatment Network is please to announce the opening of registration for their Endgame Research Conference taking place December 5th and 6th in Toronto. 

HIV/AIDS Regional Services is pleased to announce that Gilles Charette will move into the role of Executive Director beginning October 6th, 2018. While we announced this info already, we’ve recently learned that the best way to reach him is edhars@kingston.net. 

HIV AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO) is pleased to share Legal Problems Facing Trans People in Ontario – the first report generated from the research project entitled TRANSforming JUSTICE: Trans Legal Needs Assessment Ontario. 

The OAN Honour Roll celebration will be held on the evening of Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, who have graciously donated their space to us. Please mark the date in your calendars so you can join us.

From October 16th -18th, PLDI held its Governance Training in Toronto with over 30 participants from across Ontario.  All of our regions were represented! We also had our PLDI team from Québec and our National Coordinator, Martin Bilodeau, join us. OAN Acting Executive Director Wendy Pinder was invited to be our special guest and added valuable insights into our gathering.

The OAN Newsletter is for OAN Members and friends all across the province! While we realize that many (wonderful!) events take place in Toronto, we encourage submissions that represent all regions of this amazing province.  Think there’s something in your region the Membership should know about? Send it our way: rkerr@oan.red!

CATIE is starting a new series of their free eduCATIE+ virtual courses on October 9th!  Service providers can register for blended learning courses on HIV Basics, Hepatitis C Basics, or Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV. Each course combines online education with a virtual session led by a CATIE educator with course content tailored to the issues and context specific to each participating region. Courses available with start and end dates: HIV Basics: October 9th – November 19th, 2018 Hepatitis C Basics: January 7th – February 4th, 2019 Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV: January 21th – February 18th, 2019 For more information, click here. To register for the HIV Basics course,