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Welcome! This initiative is dedicated to supporting the well-being of women living with HIV by creating enabling environments that affirm self-determination and safety. This work has been inspired and informed by, with, and for women living with HIV.
Our Mission
In alignment with UN and WHO 2023 targets, the Canadian Calls to Action aim to support the development of enabling environments to influence local and national action across research, policy, health care, and community programming, and enact local and national leadership and collective responsibility to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV.
The Canadian Calls to Action were inspired by WHO global consolidated guidelines and aim to add to decades of community activism conducted in Canada by women living with HIV. The Calls align with Canadian research and federal and international guidelines and recommendations.
The Calls are centered around women living with HIV. They are directed towards all individuals and organizations working with, advocating for, and/or providing care to women living with HIV.
The Calls seek to achieve our vision for all women living with HIV in Canada to:
- Achieve their highest potential of health, wellbeing, and quality of life
- Easily access high-quality care and services regardless of where they live
- Be treated with dignity, free from stigma and discrimination
Canadian Calls to Action Handbooks
A huge thank you to our collaborators and partnering organizations!
Partnering organizations:
- BC Women’s Hospital
- Communities, Alliances & Networks (CAAN) (formerly Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network)
- Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS)
- Canadian Positive People’s Network (CPPN)
- Oak Tree Clinic
- Ontario HIV Treatment Network
- Simon Fraser University
- ViVA Women
- Women’s Health in Women’s Hands (WHIWH)
- World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, including UNDP/ UNFPA/ UNICEF/ WHO/ World
- Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in human Reproduction
Writers:
- Angela Kaida
- Azra Bhanji
- Zoë Osborne
- Selin Yildiz
Co-reviewers:
- Alicia Charles
- Asya Gündüz
- Breklynn Bertozzi
- Brittany Cameron
- Carmen Logie
- Elizabeth King
- Melissa Morris
- Nadia O’Brien
- Renee Masching
- Rusty Souleymanov
- Shelly Tognazzini
- Sophie Patterson
- Wangari Tharao
Advisory Committee:
- Alexandra de Pokomandy
- Angela Kaida
- Ann Favel
- Asya Gündüz
- Angela Underhill
- Carmen Logie
- Carrie Martin
- Deborah Norris
- Deveilyau Tymusko
- Elizabeth King
- Jasmine Cotnam
- Logan Kennedy
- Mona Loutfy
- Muluba Habanyama
- Nadia O’Brien
- Rusty Souleymanov
- Saara Greene
- Sarah Chown
- Wangari Tharao