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12/05/2025

🏠 Homelessness: Beyond Myths
Too often, people experiencing homelessness are judged based on myths — not facts.
✨ Let’s break the stigma:

❌ Myth: People experiencing homelessness are lazy.
✅ Fact: Survival without stable housing takes constant effort and resilience.

❌ Myth: Homelessness is always a choice.
✅ Fact: It’s often caused by a mix of factors — job loss, family violence, poor health, or lack of affordable housing.

❌ Myth: All people without homes struggle with addiction.
✅ Fact: Many do not. The real issue is lack of support, not moral failure.

12/05/2025

Ribbon Community and Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Foundation are collaborating to offer free counselling to Newcomer Women Living with HIV and their Families throughout BC, provided by licensed counsellors!

To access the program, women, family members, and/or service providers/advocates can complete a short online form, and a Ribbon team member will get back to you within 4 weeks (usually less!).

Ribbon Community always uses the word women to include transgender and cisgender women.

For questions or support about the program please reach out to Ribbon Case Manager, Tova: [email protected] or call/text: 236-688-3080.

12/05/2025

In honour of World AIDS , we’re hosting a free HIV 101 workshop to build awareness and break stigma at the Prince George Public Library

📅 Nov 25 | 6–7:30 PM
📍 Bob Harkins Branch, Downtown Library
Ages 19+ | Drop in

Learn about U=U, PrEP/PEP, transmission, and culturally safe HIV education.
Knowledge saves lives. ❤️

11/11/2023

HIV is still a public health crisis — but stigma is the real epidemic.
Canada saw a 35% rise in new HIV diagnoses in 2023.
In Northern BC, testing rates and access remain uneven, shaped by racism, colonization, transphobia, homophobia, substance use stigma, and systemic inequities.
The BC HIV Stigma Index reveals alarming realities:
⚠️ 52% experienced stigma this year
⚠️ 30% avoided healthcare
⚠️ 24% avoided social services
This is unacceptable — and preventable.
As we move toward World AIDS Day, Positive Living North is calling on our community to take action:
✔️ Learn the facts
✔️ Challenge stigma
✔️ Stand with people living with HIV
✔️ Support education and culturally safe services
Change starts with awareness — and it starts with us. ❤️

11/09/2023

U=U isn’t just a message — it’s science backed by love, dignity, and truth. ❤️

When a person living with HIV is on treatment and maintains an undetectable viral load, they cannot pass HIV through s*x.

This knowledge saves lives, builds confidence, and breaks stigma.

As we approach World AIDS Day , let’s continue sharing facts that empower communities and protect health.
Learn more or connect with us at Positive Living North.

11/09/2023