SHAWNA Newsletter Winter 2021
SHAWNA receives five more years of funding, community outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic, important changes to PharmaNet, new research findings, including why some people living with HIV need additional supports to take ART, and team updates (spoiler: there’s a new baby!)
Forcible separation of children from mothers increases the odds of unintended overdose, with disproportionate harms to Indigenous mothers
New peer-review paper demonstrates that child custody removal is directly associated with risk of unintended overdose. The paper draws on eight years of data from research projects of marginalized women led by CGSHE and UBC.
Bill C-6 excludes conversion therapy practices that target trans people
CGSHE’s submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights respecting Bill C-6