Community Innovation Program 2001

The GlaxoSmithKline - Shire BioChem Community Innovation Program promotes innovative projects that meet the needs of targeted groups of people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) who face greater difficulty gaining access to services, antiretroviral treatment and the health system.

Fourteen non-profit organizations across Canada shared the $100,000 available in 2001 through the Program. To September 2003, the Program has granted $860,000 to community-based AIDS service organizations in Canada.

The 2001 Program recipients are as follows:

AIDS Calgary Awareness Association

To research the barriers to accessing HIV care and treatment faced by PHA inmates within the Alberta Justice system. (*)

AIDS Committee of Durham

To provide treatment outreach services to rural PHAs in collaboration with the local Immunodeficiency clinic.

GAIDS Committee of Thunder Bay

To develop an HIV+ women's network in Northwestern Ontario focused on health and treatment issues.

AIDS Prince George

To develop and provide a multi-disciplinary service and supported team approach to PHAs in collaboration with the local Immunodeficiency clinic.

AIDS Vancouver Island

To develop an HIV+ Women's Wellness Program, with an education focus on gynecological and antiretroviral treatment issues, self-care options and lifestyle choices.

Comité des personnes atteintes du VIH du Québec

To implement a treatment education outreach program targeted to women from endemic countries and intravenous drug users, using existing treatment education resources.

Fife House Foundation

To implement a transitional supportive housing program for HIV+ aboriginal women. (*)

Fonds Humanitaire Tom Dee

To provide transitional supportive housing and treatment education support for HIV+ women and their children.

Groupe d'Action pour la Prévention de la Transmission du VIH et l'Éradication du Sida

To develop a treatment support group program for PHAs from endemic countries. (*)

HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic

To develop plain language education materials on HIV and the law focused on immigration and prisoner rights issues, for use by initial-point-of-care service providers.

Northern AIDS Connection Society

To research, produce and disseminate a directory of HIV-related services in Atlantic Canada for PHA use upon release from correctional facilities.

Ontario AIDS Network

To develop, implement and evaluate an on-line information service focused on benefits available to Ontario PHAs, for use primarily by front-line service providers.

SIDA-AIDS Moncton

To deliver a treatment information workshop for PHAs as a component of a New Brunswick - PEI PHA retreat.

Voices of Positive Women Support Services

To develop a province-wide peer network mentor-training program for HIV+ women

(*) indicates grants donated by Shire BioChem; the remainder by The GlaxoSmithKline Foundation.