The Vancouver Initiative for AIDS Innovation

Vancouver has outstanding AIDS expertise — in civil society, treatment, research and policy development. But these resources are insufficiently used internationally.

The Vancouver Initiative (VI) seeks to change this. We hope to help create a strengthened Vancouver AIDS community, with more deeply-rooted global ties, and with a reinforced social justice image. A city which offers the world innovation in AIDS, making the global struggle more exciting — and therefore more effective.

The three principals of VI, which is a Panos Canada project, are William Booth, former ED of AIDS Vancouver, Jon Tinker, ED of Panos Canada, and Pieter de Vos, public health and inner cities specialist.

Senior Advisors to the Vancouver Initiative

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