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Sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBI) continue to be a public health concern that requires a rights-based, collaborative and holistic approach. The renewal of the Government of Canada’s STBBI Action Plan aims to accelerate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to reduce the health impacts of STBBI in Canada by 2030… Read more of the article: Government of Canada’s sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) action plan 2024-2030

Realize, in collaboration with Gilead Sciences Canada Inc., and the National Community Advisory Group on Optimal Health and Wellbeing (NCAG)*, coordinated six deliberative dialogues to determine whether the Global Consensus Statement (on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV) resonated with people… Read more of the article: Optimal Health and Wellbeing for People Living with HIV: The Role of Health Systems

This situational analysis endeavors to uncover the layers of ableism and ageism embedded within Canadian STBBI policy as well as the lack of attention paid to HIV/HCV/STBBI prevention, testing, treatment and care in policies focused on disability and aging. Situating policy analysis within the context of thoughtful community discourse, we… Read more of the article: Ageism and Ableism in Canada’s HIV, HCV and STBBI Response

This article published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas reports the findings of our project. Our research was co-designed and co-developed with people living with HIV, HIV clinicians and frontline workers, and HIV and public health program managers and administrators with equity, sex and gender-based and intersectional lenses. This… Read more of the article: Sex differences in houselessness, injection drug use, and mental health conditions among people newly diagnosed with HIV in Manitoba, Canada from 2018 to 2021: a retrospective cohort study

HIV Positive. Living Positive. The science is clear. HIV treatment helps people living with HIV to stay healthy and can prevent it from being passed on

One population in particular is often underrepresented in conversation about HIV – namely those children born to a HIV positive parents who were themselves infected

Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) communicates the scientific consensus that HIV cannot be sexually transmitted when a person living with HIV takes and adheres to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and maintains a viral load of less than 200 copies/ml (measured every 4-6 months)

The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) is now offered as a Pan-Canadian online leadership training delivered through a mix of self-paced and real-time facilitated group sessions. PLDI is an impactful program by and for people living with HIV with more than 15 years of experience and this new dynamic online… Read more of the article: PLDI e-learning program

HIV cannot be passed on through sex when a person living with HIV is on treatment and the amount of HIV in their blood remains very low. When HIV treatment lowers the amount of virus in the blood to less than 200 copies per millilitre of blood, it is called… Read more of the article: Can’t pass it on: HIV treatment prevents transmission (fact sheet)