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Ontario HIV Treatment Network

The Ontario HIV Treatment Network is an independent, not-for-profit organization funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. We are a network composed of:

People with HIV
Academic and community-based researchers
Members of AIDS service organizations and other community groups
Decision makers from all levels of government and various community groups
Health care providers

We promote excellence and innovation in HIV treatment, research, education and prevention in Ontario to:

Improve the health and well being of people with HIV
Contribute to HIV prevention efforts
Promote knowledge exchange among all HIV stakeholders
Ensure value for resources

Nov30

OHTN Research Conference 2011: Tim Brown and Matt Sharp's Quest for an HIV Cure

Wednesday, 30 November 2011 Written by // Ontario HIV Treatment Network - Research, Brian Finch - Founder Categories // Conferences, Events, Features and Interviews, Health, Treatment, Living with HIV, Bob Leahy, Ontario HIV Treatment Network

Brian Finch interviews Timothy Brown, who has been cured of HIV and Matt Sharp, who is an Independent HIV Educator and Advocacy Consultant

OHTN Research Conference 2011: Tim Brown and Matt Sharp's Quest for an HIV Cure

The OHTN and Positive Lite present Interviews from the OHTN's Annual Research Conference, Toronto 2011

Brian Finch interviews Timothy Brown, who has been cured of HIV and Matt Sharp, who is an Independent HIV Educator and Advocacy Consultant.

Aug09

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Brian Finch talking to Lawyer Elin Sigurdson

Tuesday, 09 August 2011 Written by // Ontario HIV Treatment Network - Research Categories // Features and Interviews, Ontario HIV Treatment Network

They’re talking about Canada's laws on prostitution which put sex workers at greater risk of violence.

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Brian Finch talking to Lawyer Elin Sigurdson

This video results from the collaboration between the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and PositiveLite.com to produce videos of mutual interest.

This one was filmed at the Canadian HIV./AIDS Legal Network Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights in June 2011 in Toronto.

Elin Sigurdsonis is a Vancouver lawyer. Brian Finch is The Publisher, PositiveLite.com.

Aug02

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Brian Finch talking to Lawyer Maude Perras

Tuesday, 02 August 2011 Written by // Ontario HIV Treatment Network - Research Categories // Ontario HIV Treatment Network

They’re talking about Social Media, HIV and Privacy

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Brian Finch talking to Lawyer Maude Perras

This video results from the collaboration between the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and PositiveLite.com to produce videos of mutual interest.

This one was filmed at the Canadian HIV./AIDS Legal Network Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights in June 2011 in Toronto.

Maude Perras is a lawyer with COCQ-sida, out of Montreal, Quebec. Brian Finch is The Publisher, PositiveLite.com.

Jul26

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Brian Finch talking to B.C.'s David Eby

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 Written by // Ontario HIV Treatment Network - Research Categories // Features and Interviews, Ontario HIV Treatment Network

What is strategic litigation and why is it important to people living with HIV? Here's the answer.

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Brian Finch talking to B.C.'s David Eby

This video results from the collaboration between the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and PositiveLite.com to produce videos of mutual interest.

This one was filmed at the Canadian HIV./AIDS Legal Network Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights in June 2011 in Toronto.

David Eby is the Executive Director, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. Brian Finch is The Publisher, PositiveLite.com.

Jul19

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Bob Leahy talking Social Media to AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)’s Andrew Brett

Tuesday, 19 July 2011 Written by // Ontario HIV Treatment Network - Research Categories // Features and Interviews, Ontario HIV Treatment Network

The interview asks "How does a large AIDS Service Organization like ACT utilize social media, how best to get started and what are the pitfalls?""

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Bob Leahy talking Social Media to AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)’s Andrew Brett

OHTN/PositiveLite Video features Bob Leahy talking to ACT (AIDS Committee of Toronto)’s Andrew Brett

PositiveLIte’s Bob Leahy says this about the interview below . .

Andrew Brett is the communications coordinator for the AIDS Committee of Toronto. I’ve told this story about ACT before but I’ll tell it again. ACT and I go back a long way. ACT was the first place I turned to when I was diagnosed in 1993. Six months later when I went on disability, for something to do I, volunteered at ACT. They put me on the front desk, answering phones and greeting visitors, often clients of the agency. It was a job which I both loved and learned from. At ACT I also became a buddy for a young man who became a friend but who died within the year, a formative experience for me, but again one that aided my personal growth immensely. Then of course I moved to the country and connected with other agencies, but it was always ACT that I was most grateful for.

Seventeen years later, a labyrinth of unlikely circumstances saw me immersed in the world of social media, where, with Twitter's help, I met ACT’s Andrew Brett. Subsequently Andrew and I were speaking on the same media panel, this one at the 2011 Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rightsin Toronto. It really was a pleasure to sit down with Andrew to interview him for the Ontario HiIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and PositiveLite.com collaboration which is producing this series of videos.

Jul13

Positive Spaces Healthy Places Housing study: Recuiting HIV NEG persons.

Wednesday, 13 July 2011 Categories // Health, Ontario HIV Treatment Network

Positive Spaces Healthy Places (PSHP) is currently recruiting 200-300 people who have tested HIV-negative in the past year. The results from HIV-negative participants will be compared to our established group of 600 people with HIV/AIDS

Positive Spaces Healthy Places Housing study: Recuiting HIV NEG persons.

Take Part in our Housing Study

Positive Spaces Healthy Places (PSHP) is is currently recruiting 200-300 people who have tested HIV-negative in the past year, and who live in the province of Ontario

The results from HIV-negative participants will be compared to our established group of 600 people with HIV/AIDS. The HIV-negative comparison group will help to provide more accurate estimates of the associations between housing stability, health and health related quality of life.

What's Involved?

You must have tested negative for HIV in the past 12 months
You will be interviewed twice over a period of two years
We will keep your identity strictly confidential
You will receive $40 for each interview

Contact

If you would like to participate or want more information, please call the following confidential numbers:

Toll-free: 1-866-301-2548
Toronto: 416-642-0181

Why Participate?

When people with HIV have stable housing and feel they belong in their neighbourhoods, they are healthier. When they don't have to move more than once in a year or worry about losing their housing, they enjoy better quality of life. On the other hand, when their housing is threatened, both their mental and physical health suffers: they have much lower quality of life than those who can make ends meet. The PSHP study is moving research into action. We are helping influence policy that benefit people with HIV:

Research evidence helped housing providers in Ontario secure over $19 million in government funding to increase the supply of supportive housing for people with HIV
PSHP co-sponsors the North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit
International AIDS Society satellite session on Poverty, Homelessness and HIV/AIDS

Feel free to share this web page or distribute this poster to help us ensure safe and stable housing situations for people with HIV.

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