Core Assumptions

This strategic plan makes several core assumptions about the nature of the
services provided at AIDS Vancouver Island. These assumptions include:

• Incorporating Hepatitis C and other co-infections in service planning, design
  and delivery
• Recognizing the impact of active addiction and mental illness in clients’
  lives
• Maintaining a balance between prevention and treatment, care and support
  services
• Acknowledging the diverse service needs of the general population, vulnerable
  groups and people living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C and other co-infections
• Optimizing universal prevention efforts in the general population
• Targeting enhanced prevention and treatment, care and support efforts to
  vulnerable population groups
• Using the best available knowledge and evidence to rationalize decisions
  and resource allocation