-+*What is Sex Now Survey? Sex Now Survey is a community-based, national gay men’s health survey. The study is housed at the Community Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health (CBRC) in Vancouver, BC. Why are you doing this survey? Dedicated teams across Canada are working hard to better understand gay men’s needs and health […]
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-+*Director, Applied Epidemiology Unit Abigail Kroch is applied epidemiologist with experience in academic, government and non-profit settings. Her work focuses on translating epidemiological data for use in program planning, policy making and to support community engagement. At the OHTN, she uses provincial data sources to describe the HIV epidemic in Ontario, and develops KTE products
-+*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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-+*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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-+*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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-+*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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-+*Research Team: Andrew Eaton (nominated principal investigator), Jocelyn Watchorn (co-principal investigator), Shelley Craig (co-principal investigator), John McCullagh, David McClure, Chantal Mukandoli, Robert Wallace What is this research about? The researchers surveyed older HIV-positive adults (over 50 years of age) in Toronto about their knowledge of HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND) and social work services. The
-+*OHTN CIHR New Investigator Dr. Paul Shuper studies how the consumption of alcohol impacts HIV prevention- and treatment-related outcomes, particularly among populations of men who have sex with men. His work entails a variety of methodological approaches, including community-based studies, controlled experiments, and intervention trials. The ultimate goal of this research is to develop programs
-+*Research Team: Paul Shuper (principal investigator), Duncan MacLachlan, John Maxwell, Tim Guimond, Barry Adam What is this research about? Toronto’s hosting of World Pride Celebrations in 2014 was an unprecedented opportunity to survey a large group of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men about their patterns of alcohol and substance use,
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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
