Overview
In addition to issuing calls and awarding grants in HIV research, the Ontario HIV Treatment Network actively promotes and conducts research in the following areas:
Community-based research by building networks among community members and academic researchers and enhancing community-based organizations’ capacity to participate in research
and share its findings
Researchers are studying how employment (or lack of it) may affect the health of people living with HIV in Ontario or how the health of people living with HIV may affect their employment
(or ability to find employment).
Housing, HIV and Health by partnering with a number of Ontario AIDS service organizations to conduct a longitudinal study to examine housing and health in the context of HIV
The OHTN Cohort Study (OCS) is a community-governed, scientifically rigorous research initiative, designed to improve the health and well-being of people living with HIV in Ontario by promoting and supporting scientific, community-based and policy-relevant research. The OCS is a multi-site research study that collects clinical and sociobehavioural data on a cohort of participants living with HIV over time. The mission of the OCS is to develop, support and sustain a unique research database and cohort, governed by people living with HIV in Ontario and used in partnership by scientists, community-based researchers and other stakeholders.
Prevention Research by issuing Strategic Applied Research and Training (START) Development Grants to increase Ontario’s capacity to conduct prevention research