Our Community Network
Populations Participating in Community-Based Research
Increased Number of Community Partners and Community-Based Research Projects
Social Determinants of Health Addressed by Community-Based Research
Increased Investment in Community-Based Research
Working with our Community Network, the OHTN:
- Supports the Greater Involvement of Persons with HIV initiative by:
- Ensuring 50% community representation on our Board of Directors
- Ensuring 50% + 1 people with HIV representation on the Ontario Cohort Study Governance Committee
- Engaging people with HIV in developing and implementing research studies
- Training nine Peer Research Assistants to work in the Positive Spaces Healthy Places Study
- Employing people with HIV to work in our organization
- Supports Community-Based Research by:
- Investing $850,000 in 32 projects between 2005 and 2008 that studied prevention, care, support and treatment for people with HIV or at risk for HIV infection.
- Partnering with the University of Toronto to establish the Research Ethics Review for Community-Based Research, which allows community-based researchers who do not have an academic affiliation to secure ethics reviews
- Strengthens Community-Based HIV/AIDS Organizations by:
- Supporting over 200 community-based workers and board members to attend our annual Research Conference
- Conducting Rapid Response Reviews on emerging issues identified by AIDS Service Organizations in Ontario.
- Helping to implement the Ontario Community-Based AIDS Services and Evaluation (OCASE) database in AIDS Service Organizations across Ontario. By 2009/10, the project is expected to help improve case management services for up to 10,000 clients across the province
- Supporting 77 agencies across Ontario who use the Ontario Community HIV/AIDS Reporting Tool (OCHART) to report on and evaluate their programs and services.