Research Spotlight: Helping Middle Eastern and North African Youth in Canada
The MENA diaspora, especially youth, face unique challenges while navigating HIV and sexual health access when they settle in Canada.
Research Spotlight: Increasing Uptake through Active-Offer PrEP with Dr. Patrick O’Byrne
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: INCREASING UPTAKE THROUGH ACTIVE-OFFER PREP WITH DR. PATRICK O’BYRNE Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is the use of HIV medication to reduce a person’s chance of getting HIV. Since its roll-out in 2016, PrEP has proven to be very effective in preventing new transmissions of the virus. Indeed, the United States CDC estimates that […]
Research Spotlight: How does HIV affect pregnancy?
Women living with HIV can give birth without passing the virus to their babies thanks to breakthrough therapies like antiretroviral therapy (A.R.T.). But many babies born to HIV-positive women experience negative outcomes, some of which are not discovered until a long time after a child is born.
CANFAR UNVEILS “BOLD STRATEGIC” PLAN TO ADDRESS RISE IN HIV CASES AND END THE HIV EPIDEMIC IN CANADA BY THE END OF 2025
Catalyzing action in underserved communities, increasing access to HIV testing and linkage to treatment, and funding implementation projects key to achieving goal Toronto, ON, February 7, 2024 – CANFAR, the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research, unveils its strategic plan that responds to the significant rise in new HIV cases across Canada and aims to be […]
BSE27 raises $1.5 million for CANFAR’s mission to end HIV in Canada
Bloor Street Entertains’ 27th edition was a record-breaking event on Thursday, November 30, 2023. Whether a patron dining at one of the 23 fabulous dinners, one of over 150 partners who came together to make #BSE27 happen, or an After Party reveller, our events team and staff – thank you from the bottom of our […]
It Ends With Us: CANFAR Unveils Theme of 2023 Bloor Street Entertains Fundraising Gala and Leads National Campaign to Commemorate World AIDS Day
United efforts reinforce the critical role communities play in ending the HIV epidemic Toronto, November 7, 2023 – The Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) today revealed: It Ends With Us, as the theme of their 27th annual fundraising gala, Bloor Street Entertains (BSE). The sold-out marquis event, which has raised over 20 million dollars for HIV […]
World AIDS Day: The Cycle of Stigma
We spoke to Julie Thomas, Program Manager at Healing Our Nations, about the impact HIV stigma has on rising rates in communities from coast-to-coast. After nearly two decades at Healing Our Nations, Julie Thomas is intimately aware of the role HIV stigma plays in HIV prevention, testing and treatment. She sees it among the 33 […]
World AIDS Day: Harm Reduction Works
https://youtu.be/IEVdE-GFqNw We spoke with Shiny Mary Varghese, Executive Director of AIDS Programs South Saskatchewan, about the role of harm reduction in ending the HIV epidemic in Canada. Injection drug use accounts for almost 1 in 5 new HIV cases in Canada. AIDS Programs South Saskatchewan is responding to the ‘syndemic’ – the co-mingling of the […]
World AIDS Day: Barriers to Testing
We spoke with Alexandre Dumont Blais, Executive Director of RÉZO Santé in Montréal, about the need for better access to testing to help end the hiv epidemic in canada. In July to September this year, the team at RÉZO experienced incredible demand with their pop-up testing site, La Zone Rose, right in the heart of Montréal’s […]
World AIDS Day: Indigenous-led Response
We spoke to Jessy Dame, Director of the 2-Spirit Program at the Community Based Research Centre (CBRC) about how Indigenous communities are leading the response to their sexual health. Jessy Dame, R.N., wants allies to know that Indigenous people are taking back space and have the right to self-determine their own sexual health needs in […]