PHA Drop-in ACNS provides the space, coffee and snacks for a weekly informal drop-in open to PHAs only every Friday afternoon from 1:00-3:00. This is a safe space for members to connect, socialize and share with one another in the privacy of the ACNS offices. The Drop in is held in the Terry Martin Memorial Room. Social Discussion Groups ACNS hosts a Positive Gay Men’s social discussion group once... 

ACNS Health Fund For those living with HIV on a low income, ACNS has a limited health fund to assist you with your living expenses on a bimonthly basis. Contact Support Services to find our how to access the health fund. Making Ends Meet On the first Thursday of each month, PHAs can come in and get personal care products such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush and much more. All of the items... 

Support Counseling ACNS provides one on one short term, supportive counseling for those experiencing crisis in their lives, including but not limited to, new diagnosis, disclosure, illness, grief and loss, and difficulty managing life situations. Referrals to long term counseling and physiologists and social workers are also available. Friends, family, loved ones, and care givers of those living with... 

ACNS has a large lounge, the Terry Martin Memorial Room, open every day from 10:00am – 4:00pm where people living with HIV can come and relax, read, use the internet or phone, play cards or just be.

The Gay Men’s Health project works towards HIV prevention for ‘Men who have sex with men’ (MSM) in a broader context of overall individual and community health for both HIV negative and HIV positive men. Prevention: Sexual Health The Gay Men’s Health project provides HIV prevention programming to both gay and bi men directly, as well as organizations that serve them. We also take part in national... 

The AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia recognizes that youth have unique prevention needs and provides prevention programming for at-risk youth in our community. ACNS has created a webpage for youth that has HIV/AIDS prevention information, sexual health information, and community resources. There is also a Facebook page where youth can communicate with each other about HIV/AIDS and other sexual health... 

Population Health is an approach and way of thinking. The programs and services at ACNS incorporate the indicators to health (Social determinants of health) to create opportunities and mechanisms to improve health within our communities (populations). Communities refers to a collective of people who define themselves based on commonality or self identification, this can be described as a population.... 

ACNS in partnership with PrideHealth (a program sponsored by Capital Health and the IWK) provides information on mental wellness, stress management & smoking cessation, healthy weight management-nutrition-exercise, assessing disease prevention, free hepatitis A & B vaccinations, referrals to GLBTI-friendly health professionals. PrideHealth, aims to improve safe access to health care by offering... 

ACNS offers programs and services to organizations and communities in Nova Scotia who express an interest in increasing their knowledge and skills around HIV/AIDS. Incorporating policy, practices and supports for staff, clients, and consumers alike can increase the capacity of any organization or community and reduce the anxiety/fear that people may experience. Through education, prevention and capacity... 

The incidence of new infections in Canadian women is increasing. Women may not see themselves as ‘at-risk’ for HIV infection and may not get tested or be aware of how to protect themselves. The main risk factors for women are injection drug use and sex with heterosexual men. Some determinants of health affecting the increasing incidence of infection in women include: Income and Social Status: Women...