Category: Opinions

Indigenous Youth Leaders are Taking Action on HIV in their Communities!

Taking Action II is a community-based action research project about building and supporting Indigenous youth leadership in the HIV/AIDS movement.  We are a group of Indigenous youth leaders, Indigenous community-based organizations and university-based researchers. We wanted to create awareness around HIV, sexual health, and decolonization in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities across Turtle Island (also known as Canada). In Taking Action I, we worked with over 100 youth in six Indigenous communities across Canada to make art about the links between HIV and colonization. We did this as a way of broadening the conversations about HIV – to move...

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Leçons tirées du Symposium sur le VHC Partie 2 : Accès égal, représentation égale

Le 27 février 2016, CATIE a eu la chance d’animer un autre institut d’apprentissage lors du 5e Symposium canadien sur le VHC qui s’est tenu à Montréal, Québec. Les instituts d’apprentissage constituent des occasions passionnantes d’échanger des connaissances et de renforcer les capacités pour les intervenants œuvrant dans le domaine de la prévention, du traitement et des soins liés à l’hépatite C à travers le Canada. Nos 15 rapporteurs se sont renseignés sur la recherche actuelle et ont travaillé ensemble afin de résumer l’information et de la distribuer au sein de leur communauté.   Dans la deuxième partie de cette série...

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Leçons tirées du Symposium sur le VHC Partie 1 : Une fois les œillères enlevées, qui nettoie après la bagarre?

Le 27 février 2016, CATIE a eu la chance d’animer un autre institut d’apprentissage lors du 5e Symposium canadien sur le VHC qui s’est tenu à Montréal, Québec. Les instituts d’apprentissage constituent des occasions passionnantes d’échanger des connaissances et de renforcer les capacités pour les intervenants œuvrant dans le domaine de la prévention, du traitement et des soins liés à l’hépatite C à travers le Canada. Nos 15 rapporteurs se s ont renseignés sur la recherche actuelle et ont travaillé ensemble afin de résumer l’information et de la distribuer au sein de leur communauté. Dans la première partie de cette...

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HPV Vaccine: Who needs it?

Did you know that men can get HPV cancers? HPV (the human papillomavirus) causes warts, pre-cancers and cancers. HPV is most famous for causing cervical cancer so it has mainly been linked in people’s minds to cancer in women. Because of that, HPV cancer prevention programs have only focused on women (for example, governments spend many millions on cervical cancer screening and immunizing girls against HPV). However, HPV is readily passed between partners and the other half of the world (men!) get HPV as much as women do. So let us get the facts straight about HPV in men and women and what to do about it.

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HIV disclosure is more than a one-time conversation

Decades after the emergence of HIV, disclosure remains one of the biggest challenges for women living with HIV. There’s nothing easy or straightforward about it. When thinking about whether to tell someone about their HIV-positive status, women must consider a range of possible results, for themselves as well as their families. Some women find that disclosure can help bring peace of mind, with more freedom from fear and stress. Being able to talk honestly about their health and get day-to-day support can be a relief. Very close relationships involve sharing, vulnerability and listening, and sometimes women find that disclosure leads...

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Six ways to make harm reduction work in Canada’s prisons

In Canada today, prisoners who inject drugs need to share needles, many of which have been used numerous times by other prisoners. Without access to sterile injection equipment, rates of HIV and hepatitis C virus are much higher behind bars than in the broader community. Prison-based needle and syringe programs (PNSPs) are an important way to address this public health problem, yet Canadian correctional authorities often claim they won’t work. A recent study demonstrates that PNSPs are indisputably feasible in Canada and should be implemented now. A new report, On Point: Recommendations for Prison-Based Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada,...

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