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Autodépistage du VIH : perturbation superflue ou démocratisation égalisatrice

4 novembre 2020 • Par La Dre Nitika Pant Pai

Je me sens parfois comme une historienne quand je pense à tous les congrès et réunions, sur le thème de l’autodépistage du VIH, auxquels j’ai assisté depuis une décennie aussi bien à l’échelle internationale, nationale que régionale. J’y ai constaté des types de comportement, des accords et désaccords, tant dans les pensées, discours et actions qui me laissent stupéfaite. D’ailleurs, je me demande bien pourquoi nous, les humains, ne parvenons pas à agir pour le bien de nos semblables dans le besoin — c’est-à-dire pour le bien des populations qui pour se faire entendre dépendent de nous pour bénéficier des produits et services dont ils ont tout à fait droit.

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Sites satellites — Réduction des méfaits offerte à partir du domicile de consommateurs de drogues

13 octobre 2020 • Par Liam Michaud, Gillian Kolla et Rhiannon Thomas

The term “satellite sites” is used to refer to informal harm reduction hubs operating out of the homes of people who use drugs. Operating in Toronto for more than 20 years, these sites offer access to sterile drug use supplies outside of more formal settings like health centres. Although many satellite sites offer much more than this – including naloxone and overdose response training, needle disposal and referrals to healthcare services. Satellite programs emerged from the recognition that people who use drugs were already doing this work within their communities, operating informally to meet harm reduction needs and respond to a range of other health needs.

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Repenser la prévention du VIH chez les jeunes hommes noirs aimant le même genre

7 octobre 2020 • Par David Absalom

Current HIV prevention efforts have and continue to fail Black same-gender-loving (SGL)* men. But with meaningful reflection and changes to service delivery, this can change.

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Valuing lived experience of substance use in our organizations: Five areas of policy and best practice

1 septembre 2020 • Par Murray Jose-Boerbridge

Does your organization support the meaningful engagement of individuals with lived experience of substance use? The assumption and our immediate response to this question should be a resounding yes! However, we know that this is often not the case.

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Testing for HIV at home: How Ottawa is piloting self-testing

12 août 2020 • Par Alexandra Musten

To end the HIV epidemic in Canada, it is important for people who are HIV-positive to know their status and to be linked to care. To do that, we have to reach people who are not testing now and make the process easier for them.

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COVID-19 in prisons: What needs to be done in Ontario

27 juillet 2020 • Par Claudia Medina, Eveline Allen, Chris McNab and Nicole Alexander

Immediately after Ontario declared the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as being a public health emergency in mid-March 2020, all visits from family and friends and programming were suspended in prisons in the province.

With little information from the Ministry of the Solicitor General regarding their efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Prisoners’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) was flooded with phone calls from prisoners concerned about their health and the well-being of their family and friends.

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