By Executive Director, Tammy C. Yates This International Day of Persons with Disabilities, We Imagine a Future Fully Inclusive of People Living with Episodic Disabilities Today, on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), the world celebrates efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable world for persons with disabilities. The United Nation’s (UN’s) […]
Press Releases
STATEMENT TO MARK WORLD AIDS DAY 2016
By Executive Director, Tammy C. Yates Today is World AIDS Day (WAD) and this year’s theme is Hands Up for #HIV Prevention. Today, being diagnosed with HIV means something very different than it did in the 1980s or 1990s. Today, with access to care, treatment and support, people living with HIV can not only survive, […]
For Immediate Release: Canadian Health Minister Addresses Ageism, Aging and HIV at AIDS 2016 Satellite Session in Durban, South Africa
Toronto, Ontario, July 20, 2016 – Earlier today, at AIDS 2016, The International AIDS Conference, in Durban, South Africa, The Honourable Jane Philpott, P.C., M.P., Minister of Health, Government of Canada, spoke at the Ageism, Aging and HIV: A Call to Action satellite session organized by the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR) […]
Ground-breaking literature review on Episodic Disabilities and Post-Secondary Education in Canada released
This review was commissioned by CWGHR to synthesize the most relevant academic and grey literature on the topic of episodic disabilities and post-secondary education in Canada. The value of promoting meaningful education for all Canadian students, including disabled students, has been increasingly recognized from the 1980s onward (Kohen et al., 2006; Mullins & Preyde, 2013). […]
New Executive Director
The Board of Directors of the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR) is pleased to announce that Tammy C. Yates has been selected as the new Executive Director (ED). The selection was made after an extensive national search and recruitment process, which was managed by executive recruitment firm Odgers Berndtson. “We are very […]