In action
Meet the
Villagers
Action Hepatitis Canada, Canada
What do you plan to do at your booth
in the NOhep Village?
“We will be promoting the CanHepC
Elimination Blueprint and will have a map
of Canada highlighting remaining barriers to
equitable access to hepatitis C treatment and
care. We also plan to run a digital campaign
where visitors can send a one-click letter to
their provincial or territorial health ministers
urging them to adopt an implementation
strategy for the elimination of hepatitis C.”
Canadian Treatment Action Council (CTAC), Canada
What will make your booth stand out?
“We will be encouraging delegates to get
involved with our work and stay in touch with
CTAC. One of the ways we plan to do this is
by asking delegates to add their voice to our
campaign to Eliminate hepatitis C in Canada.
Their voices will create a jigsaw puzzle of
personal hopes for elimination of hepatitis
C. We hope to have a local artist who has
lived experience do live painting and talk to
delegates about his work.”
CATIE, Canada
Bridging Health Foundation, Pakistan
Please describe your organisation in
2-3 sentences.
Please describe your organisation in
2-3 sentences.
“CATIE is Canada’s source for up-to-date,
unbiased information about HIV and hepatitis
C. We connect people living with HIV or
hepatitis C, at-risk communities, healthcare
providers and community organizations with
the knowledge, resources and expertise to
reduce transmission and improve quality of
life.”
“Bridging Health Foundation was founded in
2010 by a group of researchers doing MPhil
and PhD thesis research on viral hepatitis.
Bridging Health Foundation works on hepatitis
awareness, screening, and drug treatment
response in Pakistan by conducting hepatitis
awareness surveys and doing research on
issues related to hepatitis.”
End Hep C SF, USA
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), Canada
What do you plan to do at your booth
in the NOhep Village?
“Through visual and written content, discussions
and traditional ceremonies, we will articulate
how CAAN engages in research with Indigenous
Peoples and the scientific community
through the “Two-eyed Seeing” approach. This
creates safe and ethical spaces where both
communities are able to share different Ways of
Knowing and has been, and continues to be, an
effective way for two world views to respectfully
engage together where everyone is valued and
heard, and power is equally distributed. All our
activities will be housed in a tipi that we hope to
bring to the event!”
8 hep Voice May 2018
What do you hope delegates will learn
from your booth?
“We hope to show that a multi-sector,
collective impact approach to elimination is
an effective and inspiring model. We will share
outcomes of our initiative, including significant
increases in community-based testing and
treatment numbers to support this point.”
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hep Voice