Announcing the CHIWOS Women Centred-HIV Care Toolkits

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Around 14,500 women live with HIV in Canada, and delivering holistic integrated care that responds to their needs and priorities is essential. Based on findings from CHIWOS and an extensive community-collaborative research program, two new toolkits were developed on Women-Centred HIV Care. One toolkit was developed for women living with HIV as a self-management and health self-advocacy tool. The second toolkit is to support HIV clinicians and community-based organizations to deliver Women-Centred HIV Care. They are now available online!

Women-Centred HIV Care acknowledges each woman as a unique individual, working with them using a participatory model of decision making. Key sections within the toolkits include trauma- and violence-aware care; person-centred care with attention to social determinants of health and family; HIV care; women’s health care with attention to sexual and reproductive health and rights; mental, emotional and addiction health care; and peer support, leadership and capacity building.

You can find the Women-Centred HIV Care toolkits here. To support the launch of the two toolkits, the team members are hosting webinars this Fall on September 24th and October 1st, 2020.

For questions, please email: mina.kazemi@wchospital.ca

Join CHIWOS online and stay tuned:
www.chiwos.ca
https://www.facebook.com/CHIWOS
@CHIWOSresearch

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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