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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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Darrell Hoi San Tan

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-+*OHTN CIHR New Investigator Darrell Tan is an infectious disease specialist whose research focuses on promoting the sexual health of men who have sex with men. His work aims to improve the prevention, detection and management of HIV and other sexually transmitted co-infections such as herpes and syphilis. He is working to identify and implement …

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Release of data on new HIV diagnoses

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-+*OHESI has released a video and presentation on New HIV Diagnoses in Ontario, 2014. Information on new diagnoses is reported by ethnicity, population, sex, region and age in clear, accessible ways. Sign up here to get additional OHESI reports as they’re released.

Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco

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-+*Director, Education and Training Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco’s research focuses on HIV research and online dissemination, teaching and learning to maximize the involvement of all research stakeholders especially people living with HIV. He also conducts research on HIV as an episodic disability in the context of rehabilitation, mental health and HIV and ageing and HIV. Francisco has …

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Lynne Leonard

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-+*OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair Lynne Leonard’s program of research aims to have specific solution-focused health impacts on HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) prevention, diagnosis and health system performance relevant to different populations of women (recognizing the intersectionality of their HIV- and HCV-related risk environment), and to women and men who inject and use drugs. …

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Ontario seeks a new HIV Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health

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-+*The Ontario HIV Treatment Network and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) are partnering to create a new research chair with a focus on mental health disorders, substance use and HIV risk. Both mental health issues and addictions are often factors which shape a person’s HIV risk. A high proportion of men and …

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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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Nathan Lachowsky

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-+*Junior Investigator Development Award Recipient Nathan Lachowsky is working to understand how gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) use the Internet to seek sexual, social and romantic partners, to build support and information networks and to seek health information. His research aims to inform the outreach services of public health, …

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Josephine Pui-Hing Wong

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-+*Team Grant Leader; OHTN CIHR New Investigator Josephine Wong works with youth and adults in diverse communities to understand how individual factors (beliefs, knowledge) and societal factors (racism, poverty, homophobia, sexism, social exclusion) interact to produce increased vulnerability and put marginalized communities at higher risk of infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Josephine …

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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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