Patience Magagula is the current Executive Director and Co-founder of Afro-Canadian Positive Network of BC Society (ACPNet), which was founded November 2009. She has actively worked with refugees/Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. She has inspired many. She walks the talk. Her passion is supporting and improving quality of life of refugees and Immigrants LWHIV.  She sits in a number of committees, boards and research organizations. 

 

As an advocate, her sense of social justice with a knowledge of the

Sub-Saharan African Women’s social terrain is combined with a sense of compassion and ambition that stimulates others to carry on the development work with her. She is a woman of so many hats.

 

She is a known health educator who have given series of of health promotion talks on socio- structural challenges that act as barriers to black people LWHIV. She has experienced stigma and discrimination as she advocates for black people. She has never failed to give a lending and supporting hand whenever they are needs. She recognizes the values behind sustainability for an underserved community. The connection and network of peer research assistants(PRA) with black community makes the field and office work somewhat easy. She makes sure that the PRA are part of the educational approaches.