MOYO Health and Community Services is pleased to launch the Peel Integrated Drug Strategy survey again, the survey is now available online! Hence, The Peel Integrated Drug Strategy is inviting you to participate in a survey to help inform the development of a drug strategy in Peel. This is a community-based project conducted by the Peel Integrated Drug Strategy. Combined survey responses will help build a community profile of substance use in Peel, identify needs, gaps, and inform drug strategy recommendations.  What you need to know to participate: The survey is for people who use drugs and live/work/play in the Region of Peel. The

Hello Toronto! Welcome to PrEP Squad TO, a new online, social media, and print resource developed by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) with funding support from the Engage Intervention Fund. The resource aims to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness, uptake, and access in Toronto’s Black gay/ bisexual male or transpersons who have sex with men (gbMSM) community. It is an adaptation of the PrEP Squad Washington DC campaign. PrEP Squad TO will provide fun and sexy key messaging about PrEP, mobilize access through community partnerships with local ASOs, healthcare providers, among others. The resource features PrEP users, popular opinion leaders, and social

This fall, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will launch concurrent open and competitive solicitations for time-limited project funding under the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund (CAF) and the Harm Reduction Fund (HRF). To support the review of the funding applications, PHAC is looking for people living with HIV, people with lived or living experience of hepatitis C, individuals from key populations, individuals who work in community-based organizations, and researchers with a range of expertise in STBBI and harm reduction to ensure the committees are diverse, inclusive and can help assess the extent to which funding applications support

The OAN Board and staff would like to thank those who attended our 2019/20 Annual Meeting and meeting of delegates living with HIV. Both were a tremendous success with approximately 83 attendees!  Membership collective efforts yielded this great outcome. This was only possible through member commitment of time and effort which is especially noticeable and appreciated during this current COVID-19 environment. Included in the Annual Report is a message from the Co-Chairs and Executive Director plus program highlights. Go here to download the full Annual Report. We’re so excited to welcome our new Board members Viviana Santibanez (Central), Eugen Nam (Central), Charles Parchem (West) and Lila Desjardine

Are you a young person living with, at risk of, or affected by HIV/AIDS?  LetsStopAIDS’ is hosting a conference for you!  The Youth-HIV Virtual Leadership Conference is designed to educate young people about the intersecting nature of HIV, social justice, and the impacts of youth leadership. This conference is scheduled to take place on November 21-22, 2020. In preparation for the conference LetsStopAIDS’ is looking for keynote speakers with a focus on Prevention, Your HIV Status,  Treatment & Access, and/or Staying Healthy. In addition, if you are interested in facilitating breakout sessions or facilitating a Skills-based workshop for the conference reach out to Laura Foran at LForan@letsstopaids.org. For

We’re happy to be sharing a great resource: “A Reflection of Sex Work and Harm Reduction Discourse” developed by Stella in Montreal, Butterfly Asian, and the Migrant Sex Worker Support Network.  This very helpful resource includes tools useful in workshop facilitation and program framing. During this time of heavy virtual interaction, these tools are also applicable to online facilitation.

As COVID-19 continued to impact our everyday lives, this summer wasn’t quite what anyone expected. To help continue managing life during this pandemic, the GMSH teamed – up with the folks at BoylesqueTO to ask how they were exploring intimacy and self-love.  Public Health officials continue to call for us each to establish ‘social bubbles’. This also means limiting our sexual and social interactions to a smaller group to reduce potential COVID-19 exposures. It’s important to recognize that the bubble we think we’re in is not always the reality, especially with increased interactions between members of multiple social/sexual networks. It can help to think of these