-+*Download Rapid Response #191 as a PDF Questions *The terms transgender women use to describe themselves may differ from those used in the research literature. Community-used terms include transgender woman, woman, transsexual, and transfemme. In this review, the term “transgender woman” is used as an inclusive umbrella term to reflect a range of transfeminine identities […]
-+*Download pdf Questions Key take-home messages The issue and why it’s important Globally, the population of people living with HIV is aging. For example, according to 2022 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 54% of people living with HIV in the U.S. were 50 years and older (16). HIV surveillance data
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-+*This World AIDS Day, which also launches the start of Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week, we reflect, recommit to the fight, stand in solidarity with those living with HIV, and remember lives lost to AIDS. This year’s theme is “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.” There have been many disruptions globally, and yes, even some unexpected
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-+*On March 21, 2025, the Methamphetamine Working Group, supported by the OHTN, hosted a provincial Think Tank to improve the continuum of care for 2SGBTQ+ individuals living with HIV and at risk of HIV who use methamphetamine. The event brought together over 50 participants, including clinicians, researchers, public health staff, community organizations, and individuals with lived/living experience from across
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-+*The OHTN’s HIV Endgame Program supports people and projects (including innovative, discovery-based and investigator-driven-game-changing projects) that have the potential to: The winter 2025-2026 Endgame Grants have just been announced. Learn more and find application details here.
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-+*On behalf of OHTN, I am pleased to announce and welcome Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw as the incoming Chair and Principal Investigator (PI) of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study (OCS). Dr. Mbuagbaw is a research methods scientist in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, as well as a Professor at McMaster University. He has led numerous
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-+*The OHTN’s HIV Endgame Program supports people and projects (including innovative, discovery-based and investigator-driven-game-changing projects) that have the potential to: The summer 2025-2026 Endgame Grants have just been announced. Learn more and find application details here.
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-+*Download pdf Questions Key take-home messages The issue and why it’s important Sexualized drug use refers to the planned and purposeful use of drugs before or during sexual events with the intent of modifying sexual experiences (16). One subtype of sexualized drug use is chemsex, which includes the use of methamphetamine and other drugs (including
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-+*Today marks the beginning of Pride Month—a time to honour the 1969 Stonewall Riots, which were led Black and POC trans women like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, sparking the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation. Pride is a celebration of identity, love and resistance – a reminder that our ongoing struggle for equity, safety and
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-+*For May 17, we mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), a global reminder of both how far we’ve come and how far we still must go. On this date in 1990, the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases, a moment made possible by decades of courageous activism by
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