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Strong Medicine: Seven years later

 November 13, 2024 •  By Danita Wahpoosewyan and Trevor Stratton

In 2018, CATIE and CAAN (Communities, Alliances & Networks) released Strong Medicine, a film by and for Indigenous people living with HIV. The film weaves together Indigenous knowledges of culture and wellness with Western knowledge of HIV testing and treatment. By sharing their experiences with Indigenous and Western medicines, eight Indigenous activists teach us that HIV isn’t something to be feared and show us different ways to walk the healing path.  Seven years after Strong Medicine was released, CATIE spoke with two of its stars, Danita Wahpoosewyan and Trevor Stratton, to reflect on what has changed, what has remained the...

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Understanding Canada’s progress towards global HIV targets

 July 18, 2024 •  By Public Health Agency of Canada

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) recently released an infographic with national estimates on Canada’s Progress Towards Ending the HIV Epidemic. These estimates help provide an understanding of the effectiveness of current responses to HIV in Canada and can help identify areas for improvement to guide HIV prevention and care work. However, it can sometimes be difficult to understand what the estimates are really saying. So, let’s explore some helpful tips for interpreting the data. What do the HIV estimates tell us? Progress towards the 95-95-95 global targets are evaluated by using four measures:  Based on the recently released...

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A conversation between Dr. Theresa Tam and Jade Elektra

 February 29, 2024 •  By Dr. Theresa Tam and Jade Elektra

Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) refers to the scientific consensus that HIV cannot be sexually transmitted when a person living with HIV consistently takes antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the amount of HIV in their blood remains very low—so low that it cannot be detected by many standard HIV tests. While the U=U message empowers people living with HIV and reduces stigma associated with the virus, it is only effective if individuals living with HIV are able to continuously take their medication. Some people in Canada, such as African, Caribbean and Black communities, Indigenous people, gay, bisexual, and other men who have...

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AIDS Action Now! is disbanding

 December 12, 2023 •  By Darien Taylor

After 35 years of fierce activism, AIDS Action Now!, the HIV treatment activist group, is shutting down. AIDS Action Now! was formed in Toronto in 1988 as a community-based response to the lack of institutional leadership regarding treatment and healthcare for people living with HIV/AIDS. Its strategy was to combine confrontational public demonstrations with strategic documents and “behind the scenes” meetings with government and institutional leaders. These meetings pushed decision-makers to respond more forcefully to HIV healthcare at a time when it was highly stigmatized and few treatment options were available. Guided by a steering committee composed mostly of people...

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We have eight years left

 November 9, 2022 •  By Jody Jollimore

It’s been just over a month since I took the reins as CATIE’s new executive director, but the countdown is already on. We have less than eight years for Canada to eliminate HIV and hepatitis C as public health threats. In 1990, CATIE was founded as a treatment information hub for people living with HIV. Since then, the organization’s mandate has expanded, and we are now Canada’s knowledge broker for service providers working in HIV and hepatitis C prevention, testing, treatment and care. For most of CATIE’s history, an end goal to the epidemic has always seemed just out of...

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