No Images? Click here Connecting with our network coast to coastREACH 2.0 News & Events, June 2017 ACB Knowledge Transfer and Exchange FormThe African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario and Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre, in partnership with Africans in Partnership Against AIDS, the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and Centre Francophone de Toronto, convened a Knowledge Translation and Exchange (KTE) Forum on March 17 – 18, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario. The purpose of the forum was to engage African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) people living with HIV on research issues related to emotional aid, employment, health outcomes, HIV over the long term, disclosure approaches and healthier- living strategies. The Power of Inclusive Research MethodologiesPAN’s BC People Living with HIV Stigma Index Research Steering Committee was excited to give an oral presentation titled Emancipatory Participation: Active Change Agents in the Fight Against Stigma in the multidisciplinary session focused on community-based research and participatory approaches. The Research Steering Committee thought it apt to expound the methodological virtues of integrating GIPA/MEPIA vertically and horizontally across all aspects of the research design and implementation. Un sommet francophone sur la réduction des risques liés aux drogues à Montréal.Depuis 1990, la Conférence internationale en réduction des risques a lieu chaque année dans une ville différente. Hôte de cette conférence, Montréal a eu le plaisir d’accueillir, le 13 mai 2017, soit la veille de la conférence, le premier Sommet francophone sur la réduction des méfaits. Les pays de la francophonie touchés par les risques liés aux drogues, par la criminalisation et la stigmatisation des personnes utilisatrices de drogues sont nombreux et le besoin de se retrouver autour d’une table, en français, semblait urgent. Responding to the Opioid Crisis in Nova ScotiaThe Province of Nova Scotia has established a leadership committee and seven working groups to address the opioid crisis. Each will address the following: surveillance; health promotion; harm reduction; access to naloxone; opioid addiction treatment; enhancing opioid prescribing and pain management; and justice/law enforcement. AIRN received funding through the Harm Reduction Working Group (HRWG) to prepare a report with recommendations for preferred provincial models for (1) Needle distribution and disposal services and (2) Safe consumption sites to inform the 2018-2019 business case for these two services. Talking Testing Points: Routine TestingOf the nearly 40 rapid HIV testing devices, including multiplex devices[1], that are available globally, bioLytical’s INSTI rapid HIV-1/HIV-2 rapid test remains the only one that has been approved by Health Canada[2]. Discussion of this lack of choice for testing in Canada is often coupled with reflection upon the difficult approval process for new devices within Health Canada, as well as the lack of willingness on behalf of industry to file for approval due to a lack of return on investment and market uncertainty. A New Evaluation Resource: Peer Evaluator Training ManualPAN is excited to introduce a new comprehensive resource on evaluation – the Peer Evaluator Training Manual! We hope this will be a good resource for PAN, REACH and other teams doing participatory evaluation work around the country. This resource will particularly be useful to those seeking to build evaluation capacity including teams that are working with people with lived experience and/or community-based organizations who haven’t done a lot of evaluation work to date. REACH 2.0 Welcomes Sugandhi del CantoSugandhi is the Executive Director at SHARE (the Saskatchewan HIV/AIDS Research Endeavour) and has recently joined the REACH team on behalf of Saskatchewan. She worked in the field of HIV since 2003, beginning with a position at the Native Friendship Centre in Montreal as the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education Coordinator. The OHTN Endorses U=UThe "undetectable = untransmittable" campaign (U=U) is an international movement. It unites communities of people living with HIV, service organizations and leading HIV researchers in support of a clear, evidence-based consensus statement about the power of effective antiretroviral treatment to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV. |