Mental Health – The Ontario HIV Treatment Network

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Questions

What are the predictors of methamphetamine use among men who have sex with men?

Key take-home messages

An abundance of literature details problematic sexualized drug use among men who have sex with men (1–3); additionally, several interventions

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Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among men who have sex with men

Men who Have Sex with Men, Mental Health, News, People Living with HIV, Rapid Responses, Slider, Uncategorized / By Danielle Giliauskas

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Questions

What interventions have been helpful to reduce social isolation and loneliness among men who have sex with men?

Key take-home messages

Social isolation and loneliness are significantly associated with all-cause mortality in the general population (1).
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Sexualized drug use (chemsex and methamphetamine) and men who have sex with men

Men who Have Sex with Men, Mental Health, News, People Living with HIV, People who use Drugs, Prevention, Rapid Responses, Slider, Stigma, Substance Use, Uncategorized / By Danielle Giliauskas

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Questions

What is the impact of sexualized drug use (specifically of chemsex and methamphetamine) on the health of men who have sex with men?
What are effective interventions and/or services that address chemsex and methamphetamine use among men

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Interventions to reduce stigma among health care providers working with substance users

Mental Health, People who use Drugs, Rapid Responses, Slider, Stigma, Substance Use / By Danielle Giliauskas

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Questions

What are effective interventions for reducing stigma among health care providers who work with substance users?

Key take-home messages

The attitudes and behaviours of practitioners have been linked to a variety of clinical outcomes in different patient

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Synchronizing our Impact: Gay Men’s Mental Health Summit Review

Care, Men who Have Sex with Men, Mental Health / By Lori Lyons

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Online mental health counselling interventions

Mental Health, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

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Questions

What are evidence-informed practices for providing online mental health counselling?
What online platforms and modalities have been used for providing online counselling, and which have been shown to be effective?
Which populations have been shown to benefit

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HIV and Mental Health in Men who have Sex with Men

Men who Have Sex with Men, Mental Health / By Lori Lyons

The HIV epidemic disproportionately affects men who have sex with men. Nearly 59% of people diagnosed with HIV in Ontario in 2016 were men who have sex with men.

Men who have sex with men are biologically more vulnerable to …

Synthesized HIV/AIDS Research Evidence (external link)

Care, Co-infections, Employment, Engagement, External Links, Food Security, Housing, Indigenous Peoples, Intimate Partner Violence, Men who Have Sex with Men, Mental Health, Neurocognitive Disorders, Other Comorbidities, People Living with HIV, People who use Drugs, Prevention, Stigma, Substance Use / By OHTN

Understanding how violence impacts health

HIV Endgame Conference, Intimate Partner Violence, Mental Health, Women* / By OHTN

Addressing intimate partner violence at HIV clinics

Reed Siemieniuk, of McMaster University, described research done at the Southern Alberta HIV Clinic investigating links between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV, depicted in the flowchart below.

A diagram depicting linkages between IPV and HIV. An alternate description of this diagram is provided in the Endgame conference report.

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Managing Patients with complex social, mental health and addiction issues

HIV Endgame Conference, Mental Health / By OHTN

HIV and mental health in Ontario

Dr. Evan Collins, a staff psychiatrist at the Immunodeficiency Clinic of the University Health Network, provided an overview of Ontario research about the mental health of people living with HIV. Mental health conditions are …