Interventions to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence among Populations at risk of HIV
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First Results from the Food Security Study
*+-In cooperation with partners across Canada, the OHTN has been investigating the impact of food security (i.e., reliable access to healthy, safe food) on the health outcomes of people living with HIV. Data from 650 Ontario participants reveals that people living with HIV who have secure access to food experience 30% fewer HIV symptoms, as
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Lynne Leonard
*+-OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair Lynne Leonard’s program of research aims to have specific solution-focused health impacts on HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) prevention, diagnosis and health system performance relevant to different populations of women (recognizing the intersectionality of their HIV- and HCV-related risk environment), and to women and men who inject and use drugs.
Mobile apps and sexual risk behaviours among men who have sex with men
*+-What strategies are used to reach out and prevent HIV/STI among men who have sex with men seeking sex online?
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What factors affect the health and well-being of lesbian, gay and bisexual Asian youth?
*+-Sexual minority Asian youth face unique social pressures. They must come to terms with a sexual identity that deviates from the values and norms of both American culture and their ancestral culture
and they have to respond to an Asian culture that strongly values heterosexuality.
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Ontario seeks a new HIV Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health
*+-The Ontario HIV Treatment Network and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) are partnering to create a new research chair with a focus on mental health disorders, substance use and HIV risk. Both mental health issues and addictions are often factors which shape a person’s HIV risk. A high proportion of men and
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Restorative Justice/Harm Reduction Pilot Project: Participatory Program Evaluation
*+-Community-Based Research Award Rittenhouse Research Team: Molly Bannerman, Joan Ruzsa; Restorative Justice Facilitators What is this project about? Many people who use drugs have been harmed by society’s punitive approach to drug use. Harm reduction programs aim to work with people to reduce drug-associated harms without penalizing them. However most organizations also respond to problematic
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Nathan Lachowsky
*+-Junior Investigator Development Award Recipient Nathan Lachowsky is working to understand how gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) use the Internet to seek sexual, social and romantic partners, to build support and information networks and to seek health information. His research aims to inform the outreach services of public health,
Josephine Pui-Hing Wong
*+-Team Grant Leader; OHTN CIHR New Investigator Josephine Wong works with youth and adults in diverse communities to understand how individual factors (beliefs, knowledge) and societal factors (racism, poverty, homophobia, sexism, social exclusion) interact to produce increased vulnerability and put marginalized communities at higher risk of infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Josephine
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