Media Coverage
Following the World AIDS Conference: "HIV only winner in useless drug war"
Mindy Jacobs includes Executive Director, Maxine Davis in her column which reached newspapers across Canada. Read more...
From the Vancouver Sun: "Ideology, not reality, drives Tories' AIDS policy"
Vancouver Sun Reporter, Peter McKnight, gives his take in the wake of the World AIDS Conference. Read more...
Maxine Davis, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation on CBC's Early Edition
Listen here...to hear Maxine Davis live from the World AIDS Conference in Vienna.
The Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation continues to play a role at the World AIDS Conference
As the conference continues, News 1130 Reporter Dan Burritt highlights the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation in Vancouver. Read more...
Metro Newspaper reports, "Local group takes aim at federal health minister"
Read more...as the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation steps up to the plate in Vienna's World AIDS Conference
Global TV Spotlights the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation and the B.C. Breakthrough
To watch the full story click here...
CKNW's Bill Good interviews Maxine Davis, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation
Listen to CKNW's Radio interview with Maxine Davis on supervised injection sites and the future of Insite. Listen here...
CTV British Columbia highlights the Dr. Peter Centre
With the future of Canada's supervised injections sites in question, CTV online posted an article which noted the Dr. Peter Centre's safe-injection facility. Read more...
Maxine Davis, Executive Director, says 'Insite saves lives'
Maxine Davis, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter Centre spoke to various media outlets yesterday regarding the Federal Government's continued opposition to safe injection services like Insite. Read more...from News 1130 or Read more...from the Winnipeg Free Press.
The Dr. Peter Centre Celebrates Aboriginal Awareness Week
On Tuesday, June 22, the Dr. Peter Centre celebrated Aboriginal Awareness Week. Highlights included a visit from Chief Bobby Joseph as well as Traditional Aboriginal Feast. Read more...
CBC Radio Interviews Maxine Davis, Executive Director of Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation
Listen to CBC Radio's interview with Maxine Davis about the Canadian Medical Association Journal article that calls for an end to banning blood donations from men who have sex with men. Listen here...
Dr. Peter's posthumous award, WE Westender
"Last Saturday, May 8, Bob and Shirley Young accepted the UBC Medical Alumni Association’s distinguished Silver Anniversary Award on behalf of their son, Dr. Peter Jepson-Young, the namesake of the West End’s HIV/AIDS care facility, Dr. Peter Centre..." Read more...
Dr. Peter's mother, Shirley Young, on CKNW Radio
Broadcast live on CKNW on Saturday May 8th. Listen here...
Read Dr. Peter's story in the UBC Medicine Magazine, Spring 2010
"If I have managed to reach out and touch people and possibly change their viewpoint about AIDS and gay people, then that will be my contribution."
Read more...
Dr. Peter's mother, Shirley Young, on CBC Radio
Broadcast live on CBC Radio's On the Coast on Thursday May 6th, Stephen Quinn interviews Shirley, Dr. Peter's mother on Dr. Peter's (posthumous) UBC Medical Alumni Association Silver Anniversary Award for his significant contributions to raising awareness of HIV/AIDS. Listen here...
Dr. Peter's inspirational work with HIV/AIDS wins new recognition
"The late Dr. Peter Jepson-Young, the inspiration behind the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation and the popular CBC segments, The Dr. Peter Diaries, will be honoured Saturday with a University of B.C. Medical Alumni Award for his pioneering work in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS." Read more...
Vancouver Sun - 'Out of the hospital and off the street' by Maxine Davis, Executive Director
"While there's been real progress in the availability of supportive housing, this next level of housing with more intensive built-in nursing care is lacking for this homeless group with extraordinary care needs. Individuals are discharged from hospital to inadequate living circumstances with high probability of hospital re-admission, while others remain in hospital for months because there is no ethically sound discharge option. Some individuals need this level of housing and care for a short time, others for a lifetime." Read more...
Partnership will help evaluate impact of Dr. Peter Centre health services
"A new collaboration between the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS will help evaluate the impact of the Dr. Peter Centre model of health care service on clinical outcomes." Read more...
Dr. Peter Centre: Helping HIV+ Individuals Move from Chaos to Stability
Maxine Davis, Executive Director, talks to HealthyHousing.ca - Canada's National HIV/AIDS Housing Portal - about the complex care provided at Dr. Peter Centre West End, the Centre's model of care and advice for other service providers. Read more...
Maxine Davis, Executive Director, says 'Insite is a health care service'
Maxine Davis, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, addresses the BC Federal Government's appeal in favour of Insite - Vancouver's internationally recognized supervised injection site. Read more...
Drug-resistant infections drop dramatically as HIV treatments improve
The number of HIV patients who develop drug-resistant infections is droppinig dramatically in B.C. as a result of improved treatments, says the author of a newly published study on the issue. Read more...
24-hr Care Sought for AIDS Victims - Kristen Thomspon/METRO VANCOUVER
The plight of Vancouver's poorest AIDS victims is undermined by homelessness and drug addiction and until more 24-hour care is available, the drug and homeless crisis will continue, said one advocate for people with AIDS. "While British Columbia is a world leader in HIV/AIDS treatment, the care is not available to many who most need it," said Maxine Davis, executive director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation. Davis said the Dr. Peter Centre Residence, which has 24 suites, is the only HIV/AIDS 24-hour care residence in the province, and the foundation is asking for dunsing to build another 24-suite residence in the Downtown Eastside.
Dr. Peter Centre Treats Vancouver's Sickest, Most Needy
Stephen Koughan, a 56-year-old patient at the Dr. Peter Centre, is coming to the end of his 13-month treatment. If it takes a certain kind of grace for a sick person to recognize that many others are worse off, Stephen Koughan has it. Read more...
Where Supervising Injections is Part of Nursing Practice
Maxine Davis's rebuttal on the November 7th, 2008 Vancouver Sun Article regarding Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation intervenor status. Read more...
Two More Intervenors Join Injection Site Appeal
A B.C. Court of Appeal judge decided Thursday to allow two more intervenors at a pending appeal involving Insite, the supervised injection site that has been allowed to remain open for another year. Read more...
AID for AIDS
Much money is to be saved in caring for HIV/AIDS patients, said Dr. Peter Centre executive director Maxine Davis. For example: spending $220 a day on patients occupying the Comox-at-Thurlow centre’s 24-suites, rather than $1,500 for acute-care hospital beds. Read more...
Dr. Peter Centre Hopes to Serve as Model for Safe-Injection Facilities
Controversy surrounding the future of Insite, the Downtown Eastside facility that offers supervised injection for drug users, has sparked renewed interest in the West End’s Dr. Peter Centre, Canada’s only HIV/AIDS health program and care residence that also includes an in-house safe-injection service. Read more...
Ruling Offers Dose of Hope to More than Just InSite
While Insite, Vancouver's internationally recognized supervised- injection site, continues its struggle to remain open, Vancouver's Dr. Peter Centre has been providing supervised-injection service in relative calm. The centre was heartened that the recent B.C. Supreme Court decision about Insite noted the "incontrovertible conclusion" that "the risk of morbidity and mortality [death and disease] associated with addiction and injection can be ameliorated by injection in the presence of qualified health professionals." This is the crux of the Dr. Peter Centre's 2002 decision to begin providing the service. Read more...
The Nearly Forgotten Plague
Cutting-edge AIDS medications have lengthened patients' lives and given many a better existence than they would have had 10 years ago, but these advances have helped push the disease out of mainstream consciousness. Health-care workers point to continuing problems that need attention: 'premature aging,' lack of bed space and failure to make sure everyone - especially the poor - gets medicine. Read more...
Global looks back at the Dr. Peter Centre
In July 2006, Global TV News did a two-part series on the Dr. Peter Centre and the past ten years since the International AIDS Conference in Vancouver . The coverage included compelling interviews with Shirley Young (Dr. Peter's mom) as well as Dr. Michael O'Shaughnessy (former Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS).
Global TV News segment on Shirley Young; July 24, 2006
Global TV News segment on AIDS Then and Now; July 25, 2006
