Strategies for effectively communicating the risk of HIV transmission
Questions
- What effective methods exist for communicating the risk of HIV transmission?
Key take-home messages
- Probability information alone may not be an effective way of communicating HIV risk information (1). Information about what causes a health problem, how
Protecting Our Communities: HCV Prevention, Engagement, and Care
Doug Sider of Public Health Ontario presented on the epidemiology of hepatitis C (HCV) in Northern Ontario, drawing on data from 2014. He noted that the North is distinct when it comes to HCV, since HCV rates are going up …
Protecting Our Communities: HIV Prevention, Engagement, and Care
A range of HIV prevention, engagement, and care approaches were presented in Dryden and Manitoulin, ranging from biomedical prevention, to improved testing, to innovative telehealth interventions.
Mark Gilbert of the OHTN and Gordon Arbess of St. Michael’s Hospital spoke about …
New strategies to improve prevention, engagement, and care
Keeping clients engaged in care
Julia Hidalgo, of George Washington University, outlined lessons learned from the HIV Care Collaborative, and best practices to keep patients in care. She included a case study of a patient who dropped out of …
Targeted interventions for men who have sex with men, trans women, and people who inject drugs
Healthy relationships for men who have sex with men
Starting a dialogue on chemsex
As part of a panel on mental health and addictions, David Stuart, of Dean Street Health, spoke about strategies to start conversations about chemsex with men …
The biomedical prevention pipeline
What’s in the biomedical prevention pipeline?
Dan McGowan from the University of Pittsburgh presented emerging possibilities for HIV prevention.
Sexual health education, condoms, and male circumcision (which reduces a man’s risk of acquiring HIV by 50% with one procedure) have …