New OCS Findings on Syphilis
-+*New findings from the OHTN Cohort Study (OCS) highlight the importance of syphilis testing for HIV-positive gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. Check out the OCS fact sheet for more information.
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OHTN and OAN Release Facing Forward: Identifying Research Priorities Through PHA Experience
-+*OHTN is committed to Impact-focused research, defined as research relevant to the lives of people living with and at-risk of HIV that will have a measurable impact on their lives. In November 2014, OHTN partnered with the Ontario AIDS Network (OAN) Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) to gather input from people living with HIV (PHAs) …
Positive Quitting: New resource on HIV and smoking
-+*Quitting smoking is one of the best things that people living with HIV can do to protect their health. Our new website, www.positivequitting.ca, is full of information for HIV clinics, AIDS service organizations and people living with HIV.
New on TVO’s The Agenda: The Blood Supply Crisis
-+*TVO has just released a roundtable discussion about the national blood supply crisis which affected thousands of individuals and their families, and which culminated in the Krever Inquiry and in changes to the blood supply system nation-wide.
Register for the OHTN’s Back to Basic Conference Now
-+*Instead of our usual annual research conference, this year, the OHTN is holding a series of themed satellite conferences. The first of these is Back to Basic, the OHTN’s basic science conference. Back to Basic is a different kind of conference. It will focus on helping basic scientists and clinical science researchers communicate their work …
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Not Just a Roof Over Your Head: Progress in Housing for People with HIV
-+*Although the Positive Spaces Healthy Places (PSHP) study is over, its effects continue to ripple through the health and housing systems. A new article by the PSHP team — Not Just “A Roof over Your Head”: The Meaning of Healthy Housing for People Living with HIV — has been published in Housing, Theory and Society. …
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US Releases Clinical Practice Guidelines for PrEP
-+*On May 14, 2014, the US Public Health Service released comprehensive clinical practice guidelines for PrEP or Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, which involves taking of a daily pill to prevent HIV infection. The new U.S. guidelines recommend that PrEP be considered for people who are HIV-negative and at substantial risk for HIV either through sexual transmission or injection drug …
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OHTN Research Leadership Series 2016
-+*The Ontario HIV Treatment Network is proud to announce the OHTN Research Leadership Series 2016: For Research with Real Life Impact. There will be three lectures this spring: Dr. LaRon Nelson will speak about the implementation of high-impact, field-based (Hi-Fi) interventions to optimize HIV prevention and treatment outcomes for African, Caribbean and Black communities in Ontario. Dr. …
Impact of successful hepatitis C treatment on quality of life
-+*This review examines the impact of successful HCV treatment (i.e. achieving SVR) on health-related quality of life taking into consideration rapidly evolving HCV treatment regimens.
Hepatitis C reinfection after successful treatment
-+*Despite these recent successes in HCV treatment, clinicians and health systems continue to be concerned about the risk of HCV recurrence — either due to reinfection following treatment or to late relapse after having had a sustained virological response.