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A community-based organization that helps women, children and men living with HIV/AIDS in Regina and Southern Saskatchewan. Provides harm-reduction services for people who use drugs.

AIDS Saint John is a non-profit community-based organization aimed at:

a) improving the quality of life of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, and

b) striving to reduce the spread of HIV by promoting healthy choices in the community at large. This will be accomplished through education and public awareness support and advocacy.

AIDS Vancouver Island (AVI) is a community-based AIDS Service Organization (ASO). We provide education, support, and advocacy for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and other communicable diseases. Our service area includes the communities of Greater Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay/Comox, Campbell River and the Port Hardy area, as well as the Gulf Islands.

AHRN’s vision is of an Asia-Pacific region where the human rights of people who use drugs are fully respected, enabling complete access by people who use drugs to opportunities to realize their potential as human beings. It is the mission of AHRN to facilitate a process of collective actions to achieve the institution of the broadest range of harm reduction services meeting the scale of need and supported by national policy across Asia.

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The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) an organization that works to reduce HIV/AIDS in Toronto’s Black, African and Caribbean communities and enhance the quality of life of Black people living with or aff­ected by HIV/AIDS.

The Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) is the national voice of people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada. Representing more than 120 community-based AIDS organizations across the country, we strengthen the response to HIV/AIDS in Canada and enrich the lives of people and communities living with HIV/AIDS.

Dedicated to promoting responses to HIV/AIDS that respects human rights.

The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS) is the local charity responsible for all of the HIV prevention and support in the former David Thompson Health Region. Our mission is to foster healthy responses to HIV and related issues, through support, education and research.

Dristi Nepal was founded in 2006, by female ex-drug users for female drug users – the first female, peer-led project of this kind. Dristi Nepal was established to address the many issues facing women who use drugs, including HIV prevention, and to ensure gender-sensitive services. Dristi is a non-profit, non-governmental organization – (NGO) based in Kathmandu; the Regional Office in Dharan was established in 2008.

The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA) is a worldwide alliance of civil society groups, networks or women living with HIV, women’s organizations, AIDS service organizations, and the United Nations system, committed to strengthening AIDS programming for women and girls.

Its mission is to mobilize leadership and political will to influence laws, policies, programmes and funding; and to promote action that gives girls and women the power to prevent HIV infection and to live fulfilling and productive lives when living with HIV.

Former VIVAIDS, Harm Reduction Victoria's role is to be a voice for drug users on issues surrounding injecting drug use. In 1989, in the face of a growing HIV epidemic, a group of drug users, their friends, families and supporters established HRVic as an independent, user-driven community based organisation.

Excellent information on The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as well as an online tutorial for people who volunteer at AIDS services organizations.

The Manitoba Harm Reduction Network is a coalition of over 100 member organizations interested in addressing the determinants of health and preventing the transmission of Sexually Transmitted Infections and blood-borne infections (HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C) in Manitoba.

POSITIVE LIVING BC is dedicated to empowering persons living with HIV/AIDS through mutual support and collective action.

Comprehensive harm reduction program in Montreal.  This site is in French.

This website provides safer drug use information for gay and bisexual men.

This Canadian provides practical, emotional and social support to people living with HIV and their caregivers, including the provision supplies and services people who use drugs.