African, Caribbean and Black people

The power presentation, provides an over view of APAA`s history, background and states our mission, vision including a clear over view of our programs and services that are offered by Africans in Partnership Aganist AIDS(APAA), here in Toronto Canada.

This first of its kind resource in Canada serves to share information and gather diverse experiences that reflect African, Canadian and Black (ACB) experiences of aging with HIV. It identifies strategies to collectively enhance future practice, programming and policy which impact ACB community members aging with HIV in Canada. Read more of the article: To The Beat of Our Own Drum – African, Canadian and Black Canadian Elders on Aging with HIV (FR)

This first of its kind resource in Canada serves to share information and gather diverse experiences that reflect African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) experiences of aging with HIV. It identifies strategies to collectively enhance future practice, programming and policy which impact ACB community members aging with HIV in Canada. Read more of the article: To The Beat of Our Own Drum – African, Caribbean, and Black Canadian Elders on Aging with HIV

Testimonies of African immigrant women living with HIV in Winnipeg.

‘- Reflections of Trans Women of Colour: Love, Resilience, and Health -Series Introduction – Experiences of Health Care Access and Barriers among Trans Women of Colour in Toronto, Canada – Speaking to the Experiences of being a Trans Woman Newcomer in Toronto, Canada – Speaking to the Experiences of Self… Read more of the article: SSHINE Lab

The AYAZAZI study is an attempt to get a more holistic understanding of HIV risk among youth. It looks at everything from the social, behavioral, emotional, sexual and even genetic factors that may make it more or less likely that a person contracts HIV.

In numerous countries, particularly the Commonwealth Caribbean, the criminalization of consensual same-sex relationships and gender non-conforming people — accompanied by wider societal stigma and discrimination, often intensified by fundamentalist religious groups — has had a damaging effect on health and human rights.

Lesotho’s Herd Boy program aims to provide HIV/AIDS and gender equity education, as well as psychosocial support to herd boys in rural areas to reduce transmission of HIV.

A refugee who learns he is HIV positive when he arrives in Canada, a native person with a dual identity, a few ordinary Canadians who were told they would die soon, a victim of rape, a young woman born with HIV, a housewife, a youth educator.