Welcome to Ribbon Community, formerly known as AIDS Vancouver. In March 2024, we changed our name to Ribbon Community. We are Ribbon for short. We opened our doors as one of the first AIDS service organization in Canada, in response to the growing need for community health organizations to support individuals living through the AIDS epidemic. We will continue to include the important lessons of AIDS, as much as we can know them, and support people who have a past or present AIDS diagnosis, and those for whom the AIDS days loom large.

We chose the concept of ribbon for our new name and look to pull the past, present, and future of the HIV/AIDS response together, connecting the many communities that make Ribbon Community possible. Our logo is the red ribbon in the form of an r, rather than the ‘v’ shape of the original ribbons developed by a group of artists called Visual AIDS. Read the story behind our new purpose, values, name and look or watch the March 26 announcement made by our Executive Director, Sarah Chown.