-+*OHTN CIHR New Investigator Claire Kendall’s research focuses on comprehensive disease management for people living with HIV. Research has shown that chronic diseases are most effectively and economically managed in well-supported primary care settings. Her research aims to generate data and interventions to improving the health of people living with HIV and their experiences of …
-+*OHTN Applied Research Chair Mario Ostrowski’s research confronts the basic science of HIV with the aim of making new vaccines and curing HIV infection. His work looks at the machinations of the immune system to see where HIV disarms it. By understanding how HIV blocks the immune system, one can find the Achilles heel of …
-+*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 …
Restorative Justice/Harm Reduction Pilot Project: Participatory Program Evaluation Read More »
-+*OHTN Senior Scientist and Director of Prevention Research Barry Adam works with researchers, policy-makers, and community-based organizations in building capacity in effective interventions for HIV prevention. With an extensive background of community-based research into HIV prevention and issues of living with HIV, Barry works with community research teams in a number of areas. Recent Research …
-+*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.
-+*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. …
Not Just a Roof Over Your Head: Progress in Housing for People with HIV Read More »
-+*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 …
US Releases Clinical Practice Guidelines for PrEP Read More »
-+*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. …
-+*In March 2016 more than 40 participants from across Canada came together to discuss the research needed to support the most effective possible implementation and use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) therapies for HIV. The meeting was funded by REACH 2.0 and sponsored by four HIV research funders: CANFAR, CTN, OHTN, and REACH 2.0. The report …
Protecting Lives, Preventing HIV: PrEP Think Tank Report Released Read More »
-+*The Ontario HIV Treatment Network funds and conducts HIV research and provides education, capacity building, evaluation services, data collection and monitoring for HIV services in Ontario. The OHTN is a collaborative network of people living with HIV, community-based agencies, health care providers, government policy makers, educators and researchers. We are an active, committed partner in Ontario’s …
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