CATIE is offering a free, online HIV Treatment across Ontario! There is a full course outline attached to this email where you can find out more.

Are you a service provider who works with people who are living with HIV? Then this course is for you!

Please feel free to forward this information through your networks to anyone who may be interested in participating!

HIV Treatment
for frontline service providers in Ontario
April 7 to April 24, 2025
Online Meeting: April 24, 2025, 1–3 p.m. EDT

Register here

The purpose of the course is to support frontline service providers to talk to their clients about HIV treatment and support them to consider starting, staying on or resuming treatment.

We ask that those attending this course have a basic understanding of HIV. You’re welcome to learn more in advance of HIV Treatment through this HIV Basics self-directed course:  HIV Basics Course

Weekly topic breakdown 

This course includes approximately four – five hours of online instruction delivered over three weeks. It includes weekly self-directed modules and collaborative discussion boards facilitated by a CATIE educator, and an interactive online meeting with our educators and fellow students.  

HIV Treatment includes three online modules that include a variety of learning activities such as e-learning units, readings, discussion board assignments, videos and webinars. You can work through each weekly online module at your own pace. Each module takes up to one hour to complete.

An online workshop  is held in the final week to conclude the course. 

Week 1: How HIV treatment works, the health and prevention benefits of HIV treatment, and how HIV treatment is monitored

Week 2: What taking HIV treatment entails, HIV treatment drug regimens, the importance of adhering to HIV treatment and its relation to HIV drug resistance

Week 3: How to support people starting, switching and staying on HIV treatment

April 24^th, 1pm-3pm EDT: Interactive online meeting – HIV Treatment: Implications for frontline service providers

Timing 

The online modules are available from April 7^th allowing three weeks for online learning to be completed before our April 24^th meeting.

You may register for this course here.

For more information about this course or CATIE’s educational offerings across Ontario, please contact Shriya Hari, Health Educator, at shari@catie.ca