1986 First Canadian AIDS demonstration to establish viral testing lab in BC
Vancouver Persons with AIDS Coalition established
Canada’s first AIDS Walk organized by Vancouver PWA Coalition
1987 Kevin Brown becomes first legal recipient of AZT in Canada
First AIDS memorial candlelight vigil
Vancouver PWA Coalition protests against proposed BC quarantine law
1989 Kevin Brown, founding chair of Vancouver PWA Coalition, dies
1990 Vancouver PWA Coalition boycotts International AIDS Conference in San Francisco, opposing discriminatory US legislation requiring HIV disclosure
Health and Welfare Canada presents National AIDS Strategy
1992 Coalition?s Prison Outreach Program initiated
Pacific AIDS Resource Centre formed
1993 Coalition broadens mandate and changes name to BC Persons with AIDS Society
National AIDS Strategy Phase II approved
1994 PARC Library established
1995 Pacific AIDS Network formed
1996 BCPWA organizes protest march at the International AIDS Conference in Vancouver to draw attention to the soon-to-expire National AIDS Strategy
HIV reclassified as a “chronic manageable illness” due to introduction of protease inhibitors
1997 Canadian AIDS Strategy approved as Phase III federal funding
2001 BC government introduces the Monthly Nutritional Supplement Benefit
2003 PWAs become eligible for liver transplants in BC but under restrictive guidelines
Glen Hillson, BCPWA chair, dies of end-stage AIDS caused by liver failure
2005 BCPWA stages protest outside Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh’s office to demand release of experimental drugs TMC 114 and 125
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