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Welcoming Our Interim Executive Director

The Ontario AIDS Network (OAN) is pleased to announce that Olivia Nuamah has been appointed as Interim Executive Director. Olivia is an accomplished executive leader and social justice advocate with over 25 years of experience spanning the non-profit, government, and corporate sectors. She has held a number of high-profile leadership roles, including Executive Director of Pride Toronto and National Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging Lead at PwC Canada. Her work is grounded in a deep commitment to bridging institutional decision-making with the lived experiences of marginalized communities, particularly in equity, healthcare, and social policy. Olivia brings a unique multidisciplinary perspective to

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The Toronto Patient and HIV Prolonged Remission

By: Devan Nambiar Canadian HIV cure research is bringing many of us closer to something we have dreamed about for decades: the possibility of a cure, and one found here in Canada. At CAHR 2026, Drs. Sharon Walmsley and Mario Ostrowski shared the case of the “Toronto Patient“. The patient, 62 years old, has been living with HIV for 27 years, taking antiretroviral therapy (ART). He developed acute myelogenous leukemia in 2021 and underwent a bone marrow transplant at UHN’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre with donor stem cells that were selected because they contained a rare “delta-32” mutation in the

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Farewell, Tara Jewal

After more than a decade at the Ontario AIDS Network, Tara Jewal begins a new chapter. We couldn’t let this moment pass without celebrating everything she has built and everyone she has touched along the way. Tara has been the heart of PLDI since its earliest years, guiding the program on behalf of the Ontario AIDS Network as it grew into a life-changing training ground for the community. Since 2006, PLDI has trained over 1,200 HIV-positive people in Ontario, building a collaborative model of leadership that has shaped a generation of advocates, mentors, and changemakers. That legacy belongs to Tara

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