A research team consisting of people from the Canadian Treatment Action Council is conducting an environmental scan of care and treatment supports for young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) in Canada. The environmental scan will be conducted with the help of youth-led and youth-serving community-based organizations across Canada. CTAC will engage HIV-positive young people to examine local barriers to accessing HIV treatment and care. The environmental scan will help CTAC and its community, clinical, research partners and youth-led and youth serving organizations to improve access to care and treatment for YPLHIV. It is about making sexual health services better for youth living with HIV in Canada.
As part of this project, we want to hear from different youth below the age of 30 and youth serving organizations to:
1) Engage youth-led and youth-serving organizations in examining local barriers to Young People Living with HIV and AIDS
2) Build a national Young People Living with HIV (YPLHIV) Working Group which will provide ongoing leadership in program development, policy engagement and community-based research
3) Identify the range of support and care services which young people believe are youth-friendly and those which are inappropriate for YPLHIV
4) Identify best practices in provision of youth-friendly HIV care and treatment services and recommendations for greater support and recognition of the value of youth-led support, care and treatment initiatives
5) Generate recommendations for community-based and clinical service providers to make their treatment and care services more youth-friendly.
What do I have to do?
2) Build a national Young People Living with HIV (YPLHIV) Working Group which will provide ongoing leadership in program development, policy engagement and community-based research
3) Identify the range of support and care services which young people believe are youth-friendly and those which are inappropriate for YPLHIV
4) Identify best practices in provision of youth-friendly HIV care and treatment services and recommendations for greater support and recognition of the value of youth-led support, care and treatment initiatives
5) Generate recommendations for community-based and clinical service providers to make their treatment and care services more youth-friendly.
If you are a youth under the age of 30, click here and answer questions about how you get information about care and treatment and where you go when you need help.
If you work with youth in a community group, agency, drop in, clinic or AIDS Service Organization, click here to answer our questions.
What will happen to the information?
This info will be used to plan advocacy and programs for youth across Canada. We will also share the results by writing a report and developing creative ways to share our findings with various groups, organizations and communities from coast to coast to coast.
Will it be private?
Yes. There will be no way of connecting you with the info you share with us. Only the research team will be able to see your finished survey – You will only be identified as having responded to our online survey.
Who can I contact if I have questions about the Survey?
If you have any questions about the project you can contact the Fiona Knight, Policy Manager at email fiona@ctac.ca.