Prevention Research
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network supports enhanced research to help prevent the acquisition and transmission of new HIV infections in Ontario by funding development grants in prevention research. The Prevention Research Network Advisory Committee provides strategic direction on the OHTN’s prevention research and training initiatives. The committee established the Evidence and Evaluation Working Group to explore what forms of evidence and evaluative methods are most appropriate for assessing prevention effectiveness.
START Development Grants in Prevention Research
In 2007, the OHTN issued a call for applications for Strategic Applied Research and Training (START) Development Grants in Prevention Research. The call invited multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral teams of:
- Researchers
- Community members
- Policymakers
To make a measurable difference on the HIV epidemic in Ontario by:
- Enhancing our current prevention knowledge
- Piloting, testing, adapting or applying promising interventions
In 2008, the following START Development Grants were awarded:
- Development of an HIV prevention and sexual health intervention for positive men
- Developing research in HIV risk-reduction for substance-using gay and bisexual men: A harm-reduction approach employing motivational interviewing
- Enhancing Access to Harm Reduction Mental Health Care and Treatment: An HIV Prevention Strategy for High Risk Substance Users
- Mobilizing Ethno-racial Community Leaders Against HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination
- What Women and Men who Smoke Crack Have to Say about HIV and HCV Prevention
By the end of 2009, the START Development Grants will submit their final reports and findings.
Contact the Prevention Research Project Coordinator for more information.