AIDS NB/SIDA N-B

11/19/2025

On Monday, November 24th at 1:00 PM in Tilley 224, Amelia Thorpe will be presenting her current research titled:
“The Aging Rainbow Research Project: Exploring Accessibility with 2SLGBTQI+ Seniors.” Amelia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Accessibility in the Department of Sociology at UNB. She holds a Ph.D. in Education and an M.Ed. in Social Justice Education and is the founder of ElderPride. She has extensive experience working with 2SLGBTQI+ youth and seniors and has collaborated with community organizations both locally and nationally. A longtime activist and community organizer, Amelia’s work focuses on community building, accessibility, community care, knowledge sharing, and intergenerational solidarity within 2SLGBTQI+ communities. She’ll also be speaking about navigating doctoral and postdoctoral work as a scholar-activist.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Thank you!

11/19/2025

11/18/2025

We were so thrilled to present some of the work we have been doing with under-served and rural NB communities at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction-Issues of Substance conference today.
Here's Just a few of the slides.

11/18/2025

In recognition of World AIDS Day, SAGE and our Advocacy team invite you to join us for an important conversation on advancing inclusion for people living with HIV. This discussion will highlight best practices and strategies for state leaders and advocates to strengthen aging-related plans and ensur...

11/17/2025

This is it — Issues of Substance 2025 is now underway! Our first keynote speaker at Issues of Substance is Len Pierre, an award-winning entrepreneur. He's talking about how and why Indigenous Peoples are over-represented in the toxic drug crisis. "We have to hold onto our hope."

11/17/2025

Today Moms Stop The Harm members arrived in Halifax,Nova Scotia, to attend the Issues of Substance Conference 2025.
Photo~Left to Right: Ruth Nickle-Fox, Traci Letts, Lorna Thomas (back row) , Antoinette Gravel-Oullette, Amanda Larabie ( back row) , Isabelle Fortier, J Stewart (at back) , Katie Upham.
The Conference is hosted by the Canadian Center on Substance Use and Addiction and it brings together more than 900 attendees for three days of plenary sessions, breakout sessions, poster events and a memorial event. On Wednesday November 19 there are presentations by MSTH members. MSTH Vice-Chair of the Board Traci Letts and MSTH Co-Founder Lorna Thomas will present a session entitled ‘Moms,The Trades,Loss and Lessons Learned.’ Antoinette Gravel- Ouellette will introduce Healing Hearts, Holding Hope and the new phone line. See the full CCSA conference schedule in Comments.

11/16/2025

This National Addictions Awareness Week (NAAW) Nov 16-22, we’re anchoring hope.

Let’s talk prevention, harm reduction, recovery and the real stories that connect us.

Join the movement 💙

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Pour la semaine nationale de sensibilisation aux dépendances (16-22 nov.), nous Ancrons l’Espoir.

Parlons prévention, réduction des méfaits, rétablissement et des histories réelles qui nous rapprochent.

Joignez-vous au mouvement. 💙

11/16/2025

Do you see the person not the status!

11/14/2025

Last World AIDS Day we had the pleasure of having one of the panels from the Canadian AIDS Memorial quilt on display at the Lt Governor’s home.

This year we are pleased to announce that we are partnering with St Thomas University to have two panels on display all the first week of December. More details to follow.🧣

11/14/2025

The Red Scarves are starting to roll in for our World AIDS Day event being held at our Miramichi office.Miramichi AIDS NB/ SIDA NB World AIDS Day Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR)

Thank you Anne McCluskey for knitting such beautiful scarves and donating socks.

We are collecting red scarves until 27th November at our Fredericton office.🧣😀