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Sharon Walmsley

-+*OHTN Research Chair in HIV Clinical Care and Aging Sharon Walmsley’s research aims to better understand the needs of people aging with HIV, and to optimize that care. Comorbidities such as heart, brain, kidney, bone and liver disease are common as people age, but occur earlier and more frequently in people with HIV. Ultimately, this …

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Understanding HIV transmission among persons from Africa and the Caribbean following their arrival in Canada

-+*Research Team:  Liviana Calzavara (principal applicant), Wangari Tharao (co-principal investigator), Amrita Daftary (co-principal investigator), Rupert Kaul, Ann Burchell, Lynne Leonard, Mona Loutfy, Tola Mbulaheni, Shannon Ryan What is this research about? People born in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean face an increased risk of contracting HIV, as there is a high prevalence of HIV in …

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A/C Track Toronto

-+*Research Team: Winston Husbands (co-principal investigator), Wangari Tharao (co-principal investigator), and Mark Gilbert What is this research about? A/C Track Toronto is a study to monitor the prevalence of HIV among African, Caribbean and Black communities in Toronto, and to assess knowledge, behavioural and systemic or structural issues that may be associated with risk and …

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Grounding Prevention Practice in the Real Needs and Interests of Rural and Urban Men who have Sex with Men in Simcoe County, Ontario

-+*Research Team:  Jan Yorke (nominated principal applicant), Terry Trussler (co-principal investigator), Nathan Lachowsky (co-principal investigator), Jillian Fenik, Mark Hammann, Phillip Banks, Marlene Hamm, Matt Craggs, George Tesseris, Winston Husbands What is this research about? The Gilbert Centre (formerly the AIDS Committee of Simcoe County) launched the first HIV prevention program in Simcoe County and the …

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weSpeak: Reducing HIV vulnerabilities and promoting resilience among self-identified heterosexual African, Caribbean and Black Men in Ontario

-+*Research Team: Josephine P. Wong (nominated principal investigator), Winston Husband (principal investigator), Josephine Etowa (principal investigator), Isaac Luginaah (principal investigator), Francisca Omorodion (principal investigator), Alexander Asamoah, Kenneth Fung, Carl James, Jelani Kerr, Erica Lawson, Hugues Loemba, Henry Luyombya, Lance McCready, Frank McGee, Paul Mkandawire, Wesley Oakes, Fanta Ongoiba, Valérie Pierre-Pierre, Maurice Poon, Wangari Tharao, Zhaida …

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Claire Kendall

-+*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 …

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Mario Ostrowski

-+*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 …

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Exhibit from the Sexy Health Carnival

Taking the sexy health carnival on the pow-wow trail

-+*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

-+*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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Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco

-+*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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