OCHART Factsheets 2019
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Communicating the harms of methamphetamine use to men who have sex with men
-+*Download pdf Questions What are best practices for communicating the harms of methamphetamine use to men who have sex with men in order to prevent its uptake? Key take-home messages Focus groups within the community can provide useful insight on how methamphetamine is used among men who have sex with men in the local context
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World AIDS Day 2020
-+*World AIDS Day, December 1, which also launches the start of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week in Canada, is an opportunity to contemplate what we have achieved and what challenges still lie ahead. As we continue to deal with the reality of COVID-19, social isolation, lockdowns, threats to access to HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care,
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HIV Endgame Program Launched!
-+*Welcome to the HIV Endgame Funding Program Cycle 4. This funding program supports people and projects (including innovative, discovery-based and investigator-driven game-changing research) that have the potential to: meet the needs of populations in Ontario most affected by HIV drive changes in policy and practice across the HIV prevention, engagement, and care cascade lead to
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Testing interventions for HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young men who have sex with men
-+*Download pdf Questions What are effective interventions to increase uptake of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) testing among young men who have sex with men? Key take-home messages In Canada in 2018, 63% of all HIV diagnoses among youth were attributed to gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (1); similarly,
Effectiveness of take-home naloxone programs and availability of naloxone nasal spray in different jurisdictions
-+*Download pdf Questions What is the evidence of the effectiveness of take-home naloxone programs and administration of naloxone by laypeople? Which jurisdictions provide take-home naloxone programs? What is the current availability of naloxone nasal spray in different jurisdictions? Key take-home messages There is wide support of take-home naloxone programs as they are associated with decreased
Free HIV self-testing: Best practices, positivity rates, and associated costs
-+*Download pdf Questions What are the different approaches to providing free HIV self-testing to reach different groups of population? What are the program costs associated with providing free HIV self-testing? What are the positivity rates for HIV self-testing? Key take-home messages HIV self-testing is highly acceptable but could be cost prohibitive, especially for individuals at
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Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among men who have sex with men
-+*Download pdf 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). A recent study among gay and bisexual men who have sex with men in Vancouver found
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Possible benefits of providing safe supply of substances to people who use drugs during public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic
-+*Download pdf Questions What are possible benefits of providing a safe supply of substances to people who use drugs during public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic? Key take-home messages Safe supply is an approach that focuses on saving lives by prescribing pharmaceutical grade substances such as opioids and stimulants to individuals at risk
