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HIV Stigma Index to be implemented in Canada

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-+*CIHR has recently awarded the OHTN with funding to implement the People Living with HIV Stigma Index over the next three years. This community-led, multi-site study will be national in scope (involving B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada) and will recruit 1,200 people living with HIV. The study will provide us with key information that will allow us to: better […]

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The Black PRAISE Study

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-+*Research Team: Winston Husbands (principal investigator), Marvelous Muchenje-Marisa, Nicole Greenspan, Valérie Pierre-Pierre, Jelani Kerr, Liviana Calzavara (co-PI), Wangari Tharao (co-PI), Orville A. Browne, Henry Luyombya (coordinator) What is this research about? Black PRAISE* is evaluating an intervention to reduce HIV-related stigma among Black church congregations in Ontario. The intervention is based on previous research with

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REACH 2.0 / Community-Based Research Collaborative

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-+*Program science can be thought of as the ongoing collaboration between the science that studies people and the programs that serve people. Information from programs is fed into studies, and information from studies helps to shape and inform programs. Collaborations between and across jurisdictions can help share good ideas and shape program innovation. Accordingly, in

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This is Not Art Therapy

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-+*Research Team: Suzanne Paddock (co-principal investigator), Andrew Zealley (co-principal investigator) What is this research about? The creative arts have played a vital role in HIV expression, education, and activism. Throughout the history of the HIV movement, artistic practices have vocalized anger, loss, and hope and have increased the power of people living with HIV to

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Participatory Program Evaluation Project for Toronto PWA Foundation

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-+*Research Team: Murray Jose-Boerbridge (principal investigator) What is this research about? OHTN supports community based service agencies in the ongoing evaluation of their programs and services, both through our Evidence-Based Practice Unit and through community-based research evaluation grants for larger projects. This grant will allow the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation, Ontario’s largest agency serving

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Angiogenesis and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with HIV

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-+*Research Team: Lena Serghides (principal investigator), Mona Loutfy, Kellie Murphy, Mark Yudin, Sharon Walmsley What is this research about? HIV-positive women who become pregnant may have a greater risk of certain complications, such as pre-term delivery and low birth weight infants, but the underlying reason for this elevated risk was not well understood. Pregnancy health

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Probiotics to enhance gut health and immune function in people living with HIV in Ontario

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-+*Research Team:  Rupert Kaul (principal investigator), Mario Ostrowski, Colin Kovacs, Gabe Kandel, Robert Reinhard What is this research about? Basic science research conducted by this team has shown that HIV damages the gut reducing the number and function of a key type of immune cell, called Th17 cells. This reduction causes “leaking” of bacteria into

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University of Toronto HIV Clinical Prevention Research Unit

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-+*Research Team:  Rupert Kaul, Darrell Tan (Clinical Director) as well as clinical colleagues Adrienne Chan and Anita Rachlis (Sunnybrook); Sharon Walmsley and Isaac Bogoch (Toronto General Hospital), Mona Loutfy (Women’s College Hospital and Maple Leaf Medical Clinic), and Drs. Kevin Gough and Darrell Tan (St. Michael’s Hospital). What is this research about? Clinical trials published

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HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men

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-+*Research Team: Trevor Hart (nominated principal investigator), Jody Jollimore (principal investigator), John Cox (principal investigator), Gilles Lambert (principal investigator), David Moore (principal investigator), Daniel Grace (principal investigator); Ann Burchell; Art Zoccole; Ayden Scheim; Barry Adam; Bertrand Lebouche; Bouchra Serhir; Brent Oliver; Brian Hansen; Cecile Tremblay; Clemon George; Dan Allman; Darrell Tan; David Brennan; David Thompson;

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Pilot Test of the WILLOW Intervention

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-+*Research Team:  Marvelous Muchenje, Wangari Tharao, Mercy Gichuki, David Seekings and Lydia Makoroka What is this research about? The WILLOW (Women Involved in Life Learning from Other Women)  intervention was developed in the US and has been shown to be a highly effective HIV prevention intervention for women living with HIV. Through interactive discussions within

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