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

 6 septembre 2016 •  Par Sarah Flicker and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network

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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How intimate partner violence affects women living with HIV

 2 août 2016 •  Par Sandra Ka Hon Chu

A global study released last year revealed alarming figures concerning women living with HIV and violence. Among 945 women living with HIV from 94 countries who participated in the study, 89 per cent reported having experienced or feared violence before, since and/or because of their HIV diagnosis. Violence they experienced was reported to be higher after HIV diagnosis from their intimate partner and others in their social network. [1]The troubling nexus between HIV and gender-based violence spurred the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario and METRAC to produce a legal information guide for women living with...

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Un sondage national révèle de l’information sur les habitudes des personnes vivant avec le VIH

 19 juillet 2016 •  Par David McLay

Depuis ses débuts, CATIE offre de l’information aux personnes vivant avec le VIH afin qu’elles prennent mieux soin de leur santé. À l’automne 2015, nous avons réalisé un sondage national en ligne pour mieux comprendre les besoins d’information des personnes vivant avec le VIH aujourd’hui. Les résultats du sondage confirment peut-être ce que vous savez déjà au sujet des besoins d’information de vos clients. Ils contiennent aussi peut-être quelques surprises. Quoi qu’il en soit, les résultats nous guident pour mieux servir nos clients.

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HPV Vaccine: Who needs it?

 7 juin 2016 •  Par Dr. Irving Salit

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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How The Cedar Project is using mobile phones to engage young Indigenous people who use drugs in HIV prevention and treatment

 31 mai 2016 •  Par Kate Jongbloed

How’s it going? These three little words have tremendous power. Sent as a simple text message, it creates an opportunity for dialogue between a case manager and a person seeking health care. It is the power of those three words that drives a new mobile phone program in B.C. that connects young Indigenous people living with or vulnerable to HIV with much-needed care and services.

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HIV disclosure is more than a one-time conversation

 10 mai 2016 •  Par Erin Seatter

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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