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06/25/2026

🌈 PRIDE WEEKEND INVITATION! 🌈
Looking for a fun way to celebrate Pride? Our friends at Freakin' Awesome Gay Stuff have generously partnered with HIV Buddies to make their NAKED-ish Pride Party more accessible to our community!
📅 Saturday, June 27
🕙 10:00 PM – 4:00 AM
📍 Sound Machine, 178 Bathurst St., Toronto
👙 Dress Code: Underwear (or less)
🎧 DJs Kevin Evans & DJ Sumation
✨ Free clothes check
💙 Exclusive HIV Buddies Community Offers:
🎟️ 50% OFF
Use code: HIVBUDDIES50

We appreciate this thoughtful approach, allowing everyone to choose the option that best suits their financial situation with dignity and without judgment.

👉 Get your tickets: gaystufftoronto.com/pride

Thank you to the team at Freakin' Awesome Gay Stuff, especially Alex, James, and Matkai, for supporting our community and helping make Pride more accessible for everyone.

Happy Pride! 🌈❤️

***rCommunity

06/24/2026

Yesterday, I had the honour of representing HIV Buddies at the 42nd Annual AIDS Memorial at Barbara Hall Park, hosted by The 519.

This year's theme, 42 Years of Building Community: Legacy, Love, and Resistance,is a powerful reminder that our history is built on courage, compassion, and collective action.
The Toronto AIDS Memorial began in the late 1980s, when activist **Michael Lynch** and a group of community members created a temporary memorial in response to the fear, isolation, and stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. Their vision led to the permanent AIDS Memorial in Barbara Hall Park, which opened in 1993. Today, it stands as a place of remembrance, healing, resilience, and hope. Every year, new names are engraved, ensuring that those we have lost are never forgotten. The memorial is now approaching the milestone of 3,000 names, each representing a life, a story, and a lasting legacy.

As a person living with HIV, I am incredibly proud to call Toronto, Canada my home a city where human rights, dignity, and inclusion are valued, and where people living with HIV have the opportunity to live openly and with respect.
At the same time, our work is far from finished.
Through my work with HIV Buddies, I continue to see the challenges faced by newcomers, particularly those from **South Asian, Middle Eastern, and North African (MENA)** communities. Many arrive with deep-rooted stigma, misinformation about HIV, and cultural barriers that make it difficult to seek support, testing, treatment, and care.
We honour those we have lost not only by remembering their names, but by continuing the fight for health equity, human rights, and a future free from HIV stigma.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this movement over the past 42 years. Together, we carry forward a legacy of love, resistance, and hope.

06/23/2026

🌈 PRE-PRIDE PARTY & SUPPORT. DON'T PUNISH. DAY CELEBRATION! 🌈

Join HIV Buddies as we mark the Support. Don't Punish. Global Day of Action 2026 with an afternoon of community, solidarity, conversation, and celebration.

The Support. Don't Punish campaign is a global movement calling for health, dignity, human rights, harm reduction, and community-led responses instead of punishment and stigma.

📅 Friday, June 26, 2026
⏰ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

📍 Second Floor Party Room
177 Mutual Street
Toronto, Ontario

✨ Pre-Pride Community Gathering
✨ Support. Don't Punish. Day Celebration
✨ Community Connections
✨ Harm Reduction & Human Rights Awareness
✨ Food and Refreshments Available

No registration required – everyone is welcome!

Together we stand for care, compassion, dignity, inclusion, and justice.

📧 [email protected]
📧 [email protected]

05/29/2026

🌟 Join the HIVBuddies Board of Directors 🌟

Are you passionate about community leadership, health equity, and creating meaningful change?

HIVBuddies is seeking new members to join our Board of Directors, with a special interest in hearing from individuals connected to South Asian, Middle Eastern, and North African (MENA), and Muslim q***r communities in Ontario.

As a peer-led organization, HIVBuddies supports people affected by HIV and HCV through education, advocacy, peer support, sexual health promotion, and harm reduction initiatives, including support and resources related to Chemsex/PNP.

We are looking for leaders who:
✅ Are passionate about community impact
✅ Believe in equity, inclusion, and social justice
✅ Bring lived experience, professional expertise, or community knowledge
✅ Want to help shape the future of HIVBuddies

📅 Application Deadline: June 15, 2025

📌 Board Commitment:
• Volunteer position
• One meeting per month (1 hour)
• Hybrid participation (online and in-person)

📧 Interested?
Please send us a brief introduction about yourself, your work, and why you would like to join the HIVBuddies Board of Directors at: [email protected]

Together, we can build stronger, healthier, and more inclusive communities.

***rs

05/27/2026

🌙✨ Eid al-Adha Mubarak ✨🌙

On this blessed occasion of Eid al-Adha, may your sacrifices be accepted, your prayers answered, and your heart filled with peace, love, and countless blessings. 🤍
May this Eid bring joy to your home, strength to your spirit, and compassion to our communities. Let us continue to support, uplift, and care for one another with kindness and humanity.
From all of us at HIVBuddies, wishing you and your loved ones a beautiful and blessed Eid al-Adha. 🐐💚

You are not alone. We are here for you.

05/26/2026

🌙✨ H*j Mubarak to all Muslim communities around the world ✨🌙

May this sacred journey bring peace, healing, forgiveness, and countless blessings to you and your loved ones. 🤍

As we celebrate this beautiful time of faith, reflection, and unity, let us continue to support one another with compassion, kindness, and love.

May Allah accept your Hajj, answer your duas, and bless your life with happiness, health, and strength. 🤲

From all of us at HIVBuddy, wishing you a joyful and blessed H*j Mubarak. 💚

You are not alone. We are here for you.

*jMubarak ***rs

05/22/2026

❤️ HIVBuddy is NOW available on Fridays! ❤️

Are you looking for support, connection, or help navigating treatment?

Whether you’re newly diagnosed, a newcomer, or simply looking to connect with others, especially South Asian, Middle Eastern, North African, and Muslim q***r communities, we’re here for you.

📍 Visit us at:
PWA – Third Floor
163 Queen Street East, Toronto

Fridays Flexible hours, come anytime!
🤝 Register with PWA & HIVBuddy
💬 Emotional support, peer connection & treatment information available

Our team is ready to support positive people in a safe, welcoming, and caring space.

📧 Contact us: [email protected]

You are not alone. We are here for you. ❤️

***rCommunity ***rs

05/17/2026

Today, on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), we stand in solidarity with LGBTQIA+ communities around the world. 🌈

At HIVBuddies, we believe every person deserves to live with dignity, safety, respect, and love, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or faith.

This day is a reminder that discrimination, silence, and hate still impact too many lives. Together, we can create safer, more inclusive spaces for everyone, especially for those in South Asian, MENA, and Muslim communities who continue to face stigma and exclusion.

We see you.
We support you.
We stand with you. Always. ❤️

Let’s continue to speak up, educate, protect, and celebrate diversity, not just today, but every day.

***rMuslims

05/15/2026

STBBI (Sexually Transmitted Bloodborne Infections) testing is an important part of taking care of your health. 💛

You don’t have to be “sleeping around” to catch an STI, and getting tested should never feel shameful or embarrassing. The truth is, regular testing gives peace of mind, builds confidence, and helps you stay informed about your body.

Testing isn’t about judgment.
It’s about self-care, responsibility, and protection. 🫶🏽

Normalize checking in on your sexual health just like any other part of your wellness routine.

04/27/2026

🌈 Honored to Present at CAHR 2026 🇨🇦

I had the privilege of presenting my oral abstract at the 35th Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research (CAHR) 2026 taking place April 23rd to 26th in Winnipeg as part of the Key Populations Session: Sexual and Gender Minorities.

🗓 Saturday | 🕚 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Room 1, RBC Convention Centre, Winnipeg

My presentation:
“Multilingual Community-Led HIV Prevention & U=U Outreach with South Asian and Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) Newcomers, including 2SLGBTQI+ and Q***r Muslim Communities.”

This work, led through HIV Buddies Canada, highlights the power of:
✨ Multilingual outreach (English, Punjabi, Arabic)
✨ Peer-led, culturally safe engagement
✨ U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) awareness
✨ Centering underserved and often invisible communities including educational 9 videos and 4 postcards

We reached 500+ community members and 5,000+ online engagements, creating safe spaces to talk about HIV, reduce stigma, and improve access to prevention and care.

Grateful for the opportunity to share this work, connect with inspiring leaders, and continue advocating for equity, inclusion, and culturally grounded HIV responses.

***rMuslim

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Toronto, ON
M7A2H6

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+923218420803

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http://www.hivbuddies.ca/

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