This Black History Month, the Ontario AIDS Network (OAN) honours the histories, leadership, and resilience of Black communities across Ontario. We recognize the vital contributions of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) people, especially people living with HIV, peer leaders, frontline workers, and advocates, who continue to shape a stronger and more just HIV response. We also name what must change. Anti-Black racism and systemic inequities continue to impact access to HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and support. In Ontario, ACB people represented 29.8% of first-time HIV diagnoses in 2022, according to provincial data. Research also shows that these disproportionate impacts are
Read More →While community-based service providers delivering Canada’s HIV and AIDS response are pleased to learn of APRETUDE ‘s approval, we fear this, and other HIV prevention and treatment medications, will remain inaccessible to many African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) people who continue to experience significant barriers to accessing HIV prevention treatments like APRETUDE, compounded by systemic anti-Black racism within healthcare systems.
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