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This report, as the first in a series, focuses on justiciable legal problems experienced by trans people who participated in the study.

Print and make your own International Overdose Awareness Day buttons using WHAI’s 2023 design.

Read more about how providing comprehensive infant feeding guidance to families affected by HIV is complex issue requiring a multidisciplinary approach.

Women Living with HIV experience earlier menopause than HIV-negative women. This poster explores the timing of menopause, quality of life, and connection to menopause/gynecological care among participants of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study (OCS).

For women and gender-diverse people, poverty is caused by unique factors and leads to unique outcomes. Explore these factors & outcomes in this online fact sheet.

This report is an analysis of the results of the Women’s Economic Development Collaborative Fund.

The Ontario Ministry of Health actively supports and promotes HIV testing to diagnose people infected with HIV as early as possible and link them to treatment, and identify people at high risk of acquiring HIV and connect them with prevention services.

This report evaluates WHAI’s work from 2020 to 2022 in collaboration with Dr. Rai Reece, and in 2021 with added facilitation and co-creation support from Dr. Sarah Switzer.

This 2020 report examines data that informs progress on targets and help us understand which populations are experiencing a disproportionate burden of HIV risk and infection.

Our updated toolkit (2023) includes pull out sections on women & HIV in Ontario, populations of women disproportionately impacted, and strategies to build knowledge and capacity to support women in local communities. The tools include organizational and individual assessment tools, and an action planning for change tool, among others.

This report represents a synthesis of discussions during a 2022 roundtable about alternative justice responses to the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada, as well as findings from previous research and community engagement.

WHAI’s resource on Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) for women.

This video resource was created by and for ACB community working in HIV and Harm Reduction, but it’s impact goes beyond these sectors. It’s an opportunity to acknowledge and name Black grief and reflect on it’s impact. The interactive activity is a powerful way to visualize the grief we carry, and start conversations with co-workers, friends, and community about the grief that comes from anti-Black racism.

Key findings, results, background and conclusions on reproductive health among women living with HIV from OHTN’s Cohort Study.

This guide includes sections on safer injecting, safer inhaling, safer swallowing & snorting, overdoses, and additional resources.

Over the past decade, the perception of sex workers has evolved in the eyes of policy-makers, law enforcement and the broader public from “criminals” to “victims” — but sex
workers continue to be over-policed “for their own protection,” at considerable cost to their rights to work.

Our 2022 Overdose Awareness Day poster focuses on the importance of talking about overdose and the impact it’s having on our communities.

Dr. Mona Loutfy delivers the CAHR 2022 Mark Wainberg Lecture, “Women and HIV: A Call for Allyship and a Reckoning.” This lecture focuses on Women & HIV and violence, inequity, and patriarchy especially as they relate to the experiences of women researchers and HIV research.

The A/C Study was a community-based research project conducted in Toronto and Ottawa from November 2018 to December 2019. One of the objectives of the A/C Study was to estimate the prevalence of HIV among ACB people in Toronto and Ottawa.

PrEP, or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, is a highly effective way for people at high risk to have more control over their sex lives and protect themselves from HIV. The OHTN has created a comprehensive online toolkit geared for those who are new to PrEP, those who are on PrEP already, and for clinicians.