Completed Studies

Grounding Prevention Practice in the Real Needs and Interests of Rural and Urban Men who have Sex with Men in Simcoe County, Ontario

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-+*Research Team:  Jan Yorke (nominated principal applicant), Terry Trussler (co-principal investigator), Nathan Lachowsky (co-principal investigator), Jillian Fenik, Mark Hammann, Phillip Banks, Marlene Hamm, Matt Craggs, George Tesseris, Winston Husbands What is this research about? The Gilbert Centre (formerly the AIDS Committee of Simcoe County) launched the first HIV prevention program in Simcoe County and the […]

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How Criminalization is Affecting People Living with HIV in Ontario

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-+*There has been a rising tide of criminal prosecutions of HIV non-disclosure in Ontario over the last decade. Drawing on results from the OHTN Cohort Study, the Positive Places Healthy Places Cohort Study, and in-depth interviews with 122 HIV-positive people, this research study reports on the ways that criminalization impacts the everyday lives of people

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Exhibit from the Sexy Health Carnival

Taking the sexy health carnival on the pow-wow trail

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-+*Community-Based Research Award Native Youth Sexual Health Network Research Team: Alexa Lesperance, Jessica Danforth, Sarah Flicker, Renee Monchalin, Carmen Logie What is this project about? Alexa Lesperance, a Native Youth Sexual Health Network Youth Facilitator, with the help of her family and community (Naotkamegwanning First Nation), created the Sexy Health Carnival to challenge the shame,

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Restorative Justice/Harm Reduction Pilot Project: Participatory Program Evaluation

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-+*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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Access, Identity and Men (AIM): How South Asian MSM navigate their sexual and overall health

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-+*Community-Based Research Award Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) Research Team: Ramraajh Sharvendiran, Vijaya Chikermane, Trevor Hart, Haran Vijayanathan, Zavaré Tengra, Antoney Baccas What is this project about? The Access, Identity and Men (AIM) Study was undertaken by the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) to fill the gaps in knowledge and evidence

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Evaluation of a peer-based model of support for HIV Prevention (HIPS)

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-+*Community-Based Research Award Street Health Research Team: Mary Kay MacVicar, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Street Health; Sabin Mukkath, Regent Park Community Health Centre; Josie Ricciardi What is this project about? This project was a participatory evaluation of the Healthy Initiative for Promoting Safety (HIPS) program at Street Health (and four other partner agencies). This program uses

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Positive Spaces, Healthy Places report now available

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-+*Positive Spaces, Healthy Places: HIV, Housing and Health Research in Action is the culmination of ten years of research and the first initiative in Canada to examine the relationship between housing and health for people living with HIV. Results from Positive Spaces, Healthy Places demonstrate that people living with HIV in unstable and unsafe housing

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Employment Change and Health Outcomes (ECHO) Study

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-+*The ECHO study examined how employment (or lack thereof) may affect the health of people living with HIV in Ontario and how the health of people living with HIV may affect their employment (or ability to find employment). Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, this community-based research study will follow 600 HIV positive people for two

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