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HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund

Currently funded 2022–2027 projects for the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund
Location Organization Project title Project description
National Pacific AIDS Network (PAN); Ontario AIDS Network (OAN); Coalition des organismes communautaires québecois de lutte contre le sida (COCQ-SIDA) Innovation from Strength: the Pan-Canadian PLDI Alliance The Positive Leadership Development Institute (PLDI) project will deliver leadership skills and training courses to people living with HIV across Canada both in-person and online to help reduce HIV stigma in individuals and their communities. The project will improve health outcomes and engagement with linkages to care, and position people living with HIV as leaders and change-makers in Canada's HIV response, while meaningfully addressing Truth and Reconciliation.
National Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) Optimizing Combination Prevention of HIV/STBBI Among GBT2Q in Canada This national project will increase access and uptake of HIV and STBBI health services among gay, bisexual, queer, other men who have sex with men (cis and trans), and Two-Spirit people (GBT2Q). The project will strengthen the knowledge and capacity of healthcare professionals, policy and decision-makers, and GBT2Q community members through culturally appropriate knowledge products, community and stakeholder events, and digital/social marketing content and campaigns.
National CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks Keeping Our Fires: Incarnating Indigenous Voices. Wise Practices. Caring Communities The project will focus on ceremony and storytelling to address the HIV, HCV, and STBBI realities that Indigenous Peoples face. CAAN will work with individuals, organizations, and decision-makers to gather and prepare knowledge bundle resources, applying Indigenous ways of knowing and doing, and decolonizing approaches to creating STBBI evidence.
National Canadian Positive People Network (CPPN) Greater and More Meaningful Peer Engagement and Mentorship This project will focus on enhancing and fostering greater and more meaningful peer engagement and mentorship among people living with HIV to build skills, knowledge and capacity to prevention infections and improve health outcomes, with the goal to improve access to STBBI prevention, treatment, care and support programs and services.
National Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) The Canadian Alliance in HIV and HCV Knowledge to Action (K2A) This project will work to increase the application of the Program Science framework (a framework that ensure public health programs drive research based on field-level challenges and experiences) among community members, public health professionals/practitioners, service providers and researchers to prevent new infections and improve the health and well-being of people affected by STBBI in communities across Canada.
National Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada Inuit Sexual Health Toolkit: Driving Change through Community Engagement and Action on Hep C, HIV, and other STBBI   This project aims to improve the sexual health of Inuit youth in Inuit Nunangat and large Canadian urban centres by increasing their knowledge of effective evidence-based strategies to prevent HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI, and improve their capacity, confidence and comfort to seek help, testing, treatment, care, and support. This project also aims to increase service providers' capacity to provide culturally responsive sexual health care services.
National Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights Preventing STBBI Among Marginalized Youth This project will increase testing for STBBI among marginalized youth through a social marketing initiative. Each campaign will entail regional partnerships and research to address the unique contexts, barriers and motivators that affect testing rates among marginalized young people.
National Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) Engaging Community to Scale and Evaluate Stigma Reduction Interventions This project will support professionals and organizations across Canada to implement and evaluate professional development for health and social service professionals in their respective communities, and to facilitate structural change within select organizations. This project will contribute to increasing health and social service professionals' knowledge of stigma and the intersections between STBBI stigma and other forms of oppression.
National Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) HIVConnect: Developing a National Peer Support Program for PLWHIV This project will build on successful local and regional peer support strategies across the country and adapt them to a nationally standardized program. This will allow organizations across Canada that do not currently have peer support programs to easily implement them through an online platform where persons living with HIV would be able to access it and undergo training modules developed and envisioned by them.
National Sex Information & Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) Sexual Health Education to Prevent STBBI Among Key Youth Populations This project will increase the capacity of educators to provide effective culturally safe, stigma-free STBBI prevention education to key populations of youth. Project activities will be guided by working groups, including relevant professionals from diverse fields and youth from key populations.
National Realize STBBI, HIV, Hep C Innovations for a New Era (Shine) This project aims to provide policy and program decision makers and stakeholders across Canada's an increased understanding of the treatment and care needs of people aging with HIV, older adults and people who live with physical/cognitive/intellectual or other disabilities.
National CATIE National Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infection Knowledge Broker The project will expedite the translation of STBBI-related knowledge into frontline policies, practices and programs that affect key populations across Canada. It will provide a comprehensive collection of evidence-informed educational tools and resources, as well as capacity building opportunities for public health and healthcare professionals, frontline service providers, community-based educators and navigators, and policy and program decision-makers.
National HIV Legal Network Enhancing Health and Human Rights: Creating an Enabling Environment This project will produce analysis and culturally responsive resources that address barriers to prevention, testing, treatment, and care – including the structural factors undermining the health of Indigenous Peoples. The project will increase the knowledge of key populations to obtain services while strengthening the capacity of service providers to deliver services that respect and protect human rights.
National Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) Building on Lessons Learned: Culturally Safe Responses to STBBI This project will develop sustainable, evidence-based, and culturally relevant HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) interventions for Indigenous women in federal correctional institutions. The project aims to reduce stigma/discrimination towards STBBI, addictions, substance use, and harm reduction while recognizing the colonial history of Indigenous people in Canada.
National Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC); H.I.M. Health Initiative for Men; AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT); MAX Ottawa; RÉZO (Santé et mieux-être des hommes gais et bisexuels) Advance Community Alliance '2.0': Optimizing Combination Prevention for GBT2Q+ People This project aims to improve the accessibility and uptake of STBBI health services among gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men (cis and trans), and Two-Spirit people (GBT2Q) in Canada. Key activities will include community member-led projects; regional communities of practice to better coordinate STBBI health services; and cultural competence and safety trainings with healthcare and social service providers.
National HIV Edmonton; Canadian Center for Global Studies Corporation; Women's Health In Women's Hands; The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention of Metropolitan Toronto (Black CAP) Anti-Black Racism as Root Cause: ACB Knowledge in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS As part of a national alliance of organizations, this project will provide tools, skills and support to community-based HIV organizations to self-assess and adjust their services to address any anti-black racism that may be creating barriers for members of the African, Black, and Caribbean communities.
National End of the Rainbow Foundation; Rainbow Refugee; Capital Rainbow Refuge; Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (MCC Toronto) Rainbow of Care: Culturally Safe STBBI Prevention for LGBTQ Newcomers This national project implements a peer-support framework to connect LGBTQI+ refugees and newcomers to sexual health services, programs, and wellness initiatives.
National Africans in Partnership Against AIDS (APAA); The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention of Metropolitan Toronto (Black CAP); CAAT-Community Alliance for Accessible Treatment; Women's Health In Women's Hands; AIDS Committee of Ottawa; HIV Edmonton; SafeLink Alberta Integrated National HIV Prevention Strategy for ACB People in Canada This project uses an evidence and practice-based approach to improve access to HIV prevention for sub-populations within African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities across Canada through education, community mobilization, increased access to HIV testing and prevention technologies, and barrier reduction for care.
National The Teresa Group Reaching 2030: Accelerating Canada's Progress through its Response to HIV and STBBI (Women Speak) The project will specifically address systems-level policy barriers affecting women living with HIV by convening partners across multiple disciplines and sectors to develop collaborative approaches to address programming priorities at local and/or regional and national levels.
British Columbia H.I.M. Health Initiative for Men Community-based, sex worker-led HIV and Hep C services, advocacy and capacity-building This project will use a layered approach to address individual, institutional and structural factors that increase the occupational health and safety risks for sex workers, specifically those related to HIV and hepatitis C prevention, testing, and treatment. The project will deliver sex worker-led training for healthcare professionals in order to reduce stigma and discrimination that sex workers experience in health care settings.
British Columbia Positive Living North: No kyēhoh t'sih'en't'sehena A Targeted Northern BC HIV/AIDS, HCV and STBBI Strategy This project will hire and train peer educators to deliver a range of STBBI training presentations to Positive Living North's existing network of service providers. These training opportunities will extend to include Indigenous communities to help individuals increase their knowledge, skill and abilities to prevent STBBI.
British Columbia Pacific AIDS Network (PAN) Strengthening Capacity to Increase Effectiveness, Impact, and Sustainability This project aims to strengthen the skills and competencies of frontline service providers, including peer workers and peer navigators in the community organizations, through a program that will help learners gain the essential knowledge required to provide culturally safe and stigma-free prevention, testing, treatment, and care.
British Columbia AVI Health & Community Services Engage:Educate:Connect - STBBI Peer Education and Navigation Project This project aims to address the challenges of gaps in knowledge and inadequate support for navigating testing, treatment, and prevention services among gay, bisexual, men who have sex with other men, youth, and people who use drugs. The project will provide peer navigation sessions, peer leadership training and other educational programming, including for service providers.
British Columbia YouthCo HIV & Hep C Sexual Health Engagement for Positive, Indigenous & Trans Youth (SHEPY) This project aims to address elevated and rising rates of STBBI among youth in key populations by creating creative opportunities for youth to get information about, and develop skills and abilities required to navigate STBBI.
British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) Building capacity to prevent STBBIs in correctional facilities in BC This project will implement a peer education program in federal correctional facilities in BC to improve prevention, testing, and treatment for STBBI. The project aims to prevent new infections; share up-to-date, stigma reducing, and public health information related to HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI; and increase testing and treatment uptake through improved knowledge.
British Columbia Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion (BACI); posAbilities Association of British Columbia; Kinsight Community Real Talk Through facilitated workshops, professional development modules, and free online videos, this project increases the capacity of people from priority populations with cognitive disabilities, and the frontline staff supporting them, to engage in open conversations on sexual health topics such as STBBI, safe sex, and consent. The project aims to increase knowledge and uptake of safer sex practices, and the accessibility of sexual health resources such as hotlines and clinics.
British Columbia Peers Victoria Resources Wellness Outreach Team for Indigenous Sex Workers This project aims to address the disproportionate spread of STBBI within Indigenous communities through monthly group education workshops regarding prevention, testing, and treatment, and community-based outreach.
British Columbia OneSky Community Resources Shared Care & Peer Supports to Improve Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment The project will work with community partners to establish peer supports in a community health centre's shared care team to improve access to prevention, testing, treatment and ongoing care and support for people living with or lived experience of HIV and/or hepatitis C. Peers are active participants in the design, delivery and evaluation of the project.
British Columbia Phoenix Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education HIV/HCV Community Integration Support Program This project will strengthen the capacity of people in, or recently released, from institutional settings to reduce transmission of STBBI through testing, peer support, educational workshops, and linking individuals to treatment and care through front-line service providers.
British Columbia Afro-Canadian Positive Network of BC (ACPNet) We Can Thrive This project will engage racialized newcomers, immigrants, and Canadians from sub-Saharan Africa, along with service providers, community leaders, religious communities, and policy makers, to provide tailored support and education to those living with HIV, young people (age 15-29), and women (including transgender and cisgender women). The project aims to increase knowledge of HIV and hepatitis C prevention measures through peer-specific group programming, public engagement activities, and one on one support.
Alberta HIV Edmonton Interdependent Capacity Building through the Privileging Wisdom of Key Populations The project aims to use a capacity-building framework, which is evidence-based and informed by best practices, to address systematic barriers experienced by key populations when accessing health services.
Alberta Grande Prairie Friendship Centre; High Level Native Friendship Centre Society; Sandy Beach Ki Mamow Atoskanow Foundation; Sagitawa Friendship Society Northern Indigenous Health Alliance This project will improve access to prevention, testing, and treatment for HIV and other STBBI among Indigenous people living with or at risk of HIV/STBBI through enhanced coordination of services, workshops for service providers and community members, and prevention strategies that blend traditional and medical healing practices.
Alberta SafeLink Alberta HIV and STBBI Prevention and Education project This project aims to increase HIV and STBBI prevention among key populations by increasing awareness and knowledge; supporting the uptake of risk reduction practices; and improving access to prevention, testing and support services.
Alberta Ribbon Rouge Foundation To Equity: African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Services in Alberta This project will enhance the capacity of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) people, partnership agencies, and service providers to prevent transmission and improve referral for ACB people impacted by HIV and hepatitis C.
Alberta Queer and Trans Health Collective Health Empowerment through Active Leadership (HEAL) This project aims to address gaps in STBBI care through a community program to build practical skills, improve health literacy, and increase community connections, and the implementation of 6 sexual health interventions. The interventions aim to increase knowledge, improve access through system navigation programs, and increase cultural sensitivity of STBBI services through provider competency training.
Alberta Northreach Society Community Engagement, Education & 2SLGBTQ+ Support This project will address issues of HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI in the region of Northern Alberta within the key populations of the 2SLGBTQ+ community and youth. The project will work with target audiences, frontline service providers, community organizations, and healthcare professionals.
Alberta Centre for Sexuality Health Promotion and Primary Prevention for gbMSM This project aims to address the disproportionate impact of HIV, hepatitis C, and other STBBI in the gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with other men communities. The project will strengthen the capacity of this key population to participate in healthy sexual relationships, prevent infections, and improve their health outcomes, while removing structural barriers.
Alberta Shining Mountains Living Community Services Building Métis cultural responses to HIV and Hep C related Stigma This project aims to decrease the many levels of disease and gender-related stigma (individual, family, community and institutional, including governing bodies and health services) related to Métis people and HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI. This project will increase the capacity of service providers and enable them to provider culturally appropriate and safe prevention and treatment programs and services through in-person workshops, podcasts, online webinars, and Métis cultural gatherings.
Saskatchewan STC Health and Family Services Community-Lead Initiative for the Prevention of STBBIs This project will support STBBI prevention education programs for members of key populations, particularly Indigenous peoples, people who use drugs and those living with HIV and Hepatitis C. The prevention education programs will help build skills that can result in behavioural changes to reduce the transmission of STBBI in Saskatoon and to rural communities.
Saskatchewan Battlefords Family Health Centre Meyew Machihewin-Wellness This project aims to prevent infection, improve health outcomes related to STBBI, and support Indigenous people within Battleford. Key project activities include staff working to support mental health and addictions programs, harm reduction sites and outreach van, and educational activities.
Saskatchewan Prince Albert Métis Women's Association (PAMWA) Sexual and Behavioural Health Promotion and Barrier Reduction Initiative This project aims to increase knowledge of HIV in North Central Saskatchewan among people living with and at-risk of HIV through various activities such as training, educational workshops, and knowledge exchanges.
Saskatchewan AIDS Programs South Saskatchewan (APSS) Regina & South Saskatchewan HIV/HCV/STBBI & Stigma Prevention The project aims to increase prevention knowledge and uptake of personal behaviours that prevent HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI among key populations through educational sessions and other activities that promote harm reduction behaviours. The project also aims to decrease the sharing of substance use equipment.
Saskatchewan OUTSaskatoon; Sexual Health Centre Saskatoon SSHOUT CARES (Culturally Appropriate, Radically Engaging on STBBIs) This project aims to provide culturally appropriate and engaging prevention intervention on STBBI to young people in the community who may lack connections to formal education systems.
Manitoba Manitoba Harm Reduction Network (MHRN) "By Us, For Us" Peer-led STBBI testing Innovation in Northern Manitoba The purpose of this project is to improve access to effective STBBI prevention, testing, treatment, and ongoing care and support for people who use drugs by facilitating peer-led community based STBBI events. These events will create a stigma-free, culturally safe environment for people who use drugs to access health care and social services.
Manitoba Ka Ni Kanichihk Mino Pimatisiwin: Indigenous Led STBBI Care Made Sovereign This project will build the capacity of peers, knowledge keepers and service providers in delivering culturally safe Indigenous led sexual health care with a focus on testing.
Manitoba Nine Circles Community Health Centre Accelerating our Response to HIV-STBBI's In Manitoba through Innovation and Collective Impact This project aims to increase knowledge on effective evidence-based HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI prevention measures; strengthen capacity of service providers to improve the cultural safety and stigma-free nature of testing, prevention, treatment and ongoing support; and creating a system change.
Manitoba Sunshine House Making it Our Own This project will work with current participants in their main programs to develop harm reduction materials related to prevention and encourage testing of HIV, hepatitis C, and other STBBI that are specific to the key populations that visit Sunshine House. These populations are Indigenous people and 2SLGBTQ+ who use drugs and who are newcomers to Canada.
Ontario The Gilbert Centre for Social and Support Services; AIDS Committee of North Bay and Area; Réseau Access Network; Elevate NWO (AIDS Committee of Thunder Bay); Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy Strengthening Peer Engagement for Northern Ontario This project aims to build the capacity of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people, people who use drugs, and people living with HIV/hepatitis C as peer community workers through educational workshops/sessions to provide peer-to-peer front-line delivery, outreach, and interventions. The project will foster accessible, sustainable, stigma-free prevention, treatment, and support across northern Ontario beyond the urban centres and health districts.
Ontario  PASAN Inside Out - Reducing STBBI Risk among Prisoners This project engages prisoners and ex-prisoners in the development of STBBI prevention, harm reduction and health information resources and activities. The project will also provide prisoners with access to hepatitis C and HIV information through case coordination, reintegration support, and group educational activities so they can develop context specific strategies to help reduce their risk of acquiring STBBI.
Ontario Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority Peer Support This project aims to connect First Nations youth to peer support opportunities and networks. The project will provide health education, support harm reduction, and connect youth with needed services. It will also work to enable a more inclusive and supportive environment for youth and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
National Unity Health Toronto Reaching the Undiagnosed: Accessing Low Barrier HIV Self-Testing + Care This project aims to develop and implement different models of low barrier HIV self-testing and care options for key populations across Canada to improve adoption and uptake of evidence-based HIV, hepatitis C, or other STBBI prevention measures.
National Unity Health Toronto Ending HIV Stigma in Canada – Mobilizing Knowledge with Community Leadership for Action This project aims to eliminate HIV stigma by developing and implementing interventions to reduce stigma and improve the overall well-being of people living with HIV. The project will increase capacity to provide culturally responsive and culturally safe STBBI prevention, testing, treatment, and care services.
Ontario Regional HIV/AIDS Connection Peer Pathways: Leveraging Lived Experience To Promote Engaged Community Connection This project will provide trained peers to leverage lived/living experience that will create culturally familiar and safe linkages to support key populations' access to effective STBBI services, resources and wraparound supports.
Ontario Positive Health Network Smarter Sex, Pleasure and Maintaining Health II This project aims to increase the capacity of the existing sexual health program that engages gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with other men, youth and people living with HIV and/or hepatitis C (HCV). The project will increase awareness of STBBI status, and work with service providers in the community to increase their capacity to support key populations in order to improve health outcomes for people at risk or living with HIV/HCV.
Ontario AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) ACTion: Integrative HIV & STI Prevention Programming and Capacity Building This project aims to build the knowledge, skills, and capacity of nearly 2,000 people most affected by HIV, specifically gay, bisexual, and queer cis and trans men, women living with HIV, and young people living with HIV. The project will include educational workshops, in-person and virtual (text/phone/online) interventions, community health forums, and referrals to health and social services.
Ontario AIDS Committee of Durham Region (ACDR) HYPE: HIV Youth Peer Engagement This project is designed to provide youth aged 13-29 years with skills and social connections that empower them with greater access to prevention information and positive health outcomes through peer-led HIV education and prevention.
Ontario MAX Ottawa PACKAGE: maximizing access to culturally competent combination prevention interventions for 2SGBTQ guys into guys in the National Capital Region This project targets 2SGBTQ men who are into men who want to improve their access to STBBI screening, prevention, treatment, and continuing care and support. The project aims to provide a more holistic, client-centered approach to improve the health of communities most at risk for HIV and hepatitis C.
Ontario Regional HIV/AIDS Connection; SafeSpace; Canadian Mental Health Association, Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services Sex Worker Initiative for Safety & Health (SWISH) This project will address STBBI prevention and sexual health needs of sex workers through education and support, and through capacity building for service providers to improve cultural safety and reduce stigmatizing attitudes toward those involved in sex work.
Ontario The AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA) Project SNAP - Status Neutral Approaches to Prevention This project is part of ACCKWA's Prevention Programming focusing on the unique sexual health needs of marginalized at-risk youth and gay, bisexual, transgender, and men who have sex with other men in the Waterloo Region. The project combines education, outreach, and community development activities through a peer-led approach to improve population wellbeing, increase service provider capacity, and reduce the burden of STBBI on key populations.
Ontario CAAT – Community Alliance for Accessible Treatment Legacy Project This project aims to build chronic disease self-management skills, and enhance access and uptake of care and support for those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, with a focus on those who identify as racialized and/or as newcomers.
Ontario Peterborough AIDS Resource Network (PARN) Community Engagement Program This project will connect gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men to local sexual health and health promotion activities through community-led peer engagement and capacity building such as community learning, HIV prevention and education workshops, and culturally safe harm reduction resources.
Ontario Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project Peers in Health Project This project is a case management peer-led navigation intervention, which includes client accompaniments to reduce the structural barriers of stigma and poor access to health and other social services that marginalized sex workers face.
Ontario MOYO Health and Community Services Sustaining Community Mobilization through Integrated Peer Intervention Programs This project will champion integrated peer interventions that empower 2SLGBTQ+ folks, people who use substances, young black women, and front-line service providers to actively uptake effective evidence-based STBBI prevention measures.
Ontario Positive Living Niagara; Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS); and Toronto People with AIDS Foundation (Latinos Positivos) STBBI Prevention and Education for Migrant Farm Workers in Southern Ontario This project aims to increase migrant farm workers' (MFWs) knowledge, capacity and uptake of effective STBBI prevention measures through training Peer Champions, conducting education workshops, and organizing annual health fairs.
Ontario Pozitive Pathways Community Services Peer Engagement Project This project will provide people with lived experience the opportunity to engage in skills-building activities, develop their personal narratives, build relationships with peers and service providers and ultimately become direct educators to their peers, front-line workers and community organizations as a whole. The project aims to reduce stigma and allow peers to connect to better care and engage in self-advocacy.
Ontario CAYR Community Connections Hepatitis C in York Region: Systems Navigator and Direct Outreach This project will implement a targeted hepatitis C (HCV) program for people who use drugs, racialized people and migrants, and people living with HIV or HCV. The project aims to increase knowledge, access and uptake of HIV, HCV, and STBBI prevention measures, as well as harm reduction strategies.
Ontario Street Health Community Nursing Foundation The East End Prevention Project This project aims to reduce the transmission of HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI by providing a low barrier drop-in program with integrated care for marginalized people who use substances in the east end of downtown Toronto. The project will provide prevention-based educational support activities and skill building to manage one's own sexual health through testing, treatment and support services.
Ontario Regent Park Community Health Centre Blue Door Project The project aims to increase healthcare access for people living with HIV/AIDS with no or limited health insurance by increasing awareness among healthcare providers about the barriers these individuals face, the services offered by the Blue Door Clinic, and the training available to build their capacity to treat this unique population.
Quebec Centre Associatif Polyvalent d'Aide hépatite C (CAPAHC); Portail VIH/sida du Québec DÉSIRS (Dépister, Éduquer, Sensibiliser, Informer pour Réduire la Stigmatisation) [DÉSIRS (Test, Educate, Raise Awareness, Inform to Reduce Stigma)] This project aims to increase knowledge, raise awareness and improve services related to the prevention of HIV, hepatitis C and STBBI through training and discussions, both in-person and online. The project will build the empowerment of key populations, while being mindful of inclusiveness, including trans and non-binary realities.
Quebec AIDS Community Care Montréal (ACCM) ACCM Prevention, Treatment Information/Adherence, and Support Community Action Fund This project aims to improve health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS and/or hepatitis C, and reduce stigma and discrimination around STBBI and communities that are disproportionately affected. Prevention activities such as workshops, peer-to-peer support, group discussions, treatment information, counseling, and a sexual health texting line will be offered to gay, bi, and queer men who have sex with men, trans and non-binary youth.
Quebec Mouvement d'information et d'entraide dans la lutte contre le VIH-sida à Québec (MIELS-Québec) Lutter contre le VIH dans la Capitale-Nationale: une approche intégrée, concertée et inclusive (Addressing HIV in the National Capital Region: An Integrated, Coordinated, and Inclusive Approach) This project aims to build the skills and knowledge of gay, bisexual, other men who have sex with men, people from racialized and migrant communities, and people living with HIV to prevent infections and improve health outcomes related to STBBI. The project will also build the capacity of current and future health and social service professionals to provide stigma-free and culturally safe STBBI prevention, testing, treatment and care services.
Quebec RÉZO (Santé et mieux-être des hommes gais et bisexuels) Ta santé en main: mobile toi pour ton mieux-être sexuel (Your Health in Hand: Take Action for Your Sexual Well-being) The project, "Ta santé en main", is the evolution of the "Enligne ta santé" project, funded by CAF, using online tools and the "mobile toi" app to provide private, anonymous, and autonomous access to prevention, treatment, and support, particularly for cis and trans men who have sex with men (MSM), as well as for sex workers and newly arrived immigrants. This phase aims to overcome access barriers and strengthen the sense of community.
Quebec Groupe d'Action pour la Prévention de la transmission du VIH et l'Éradication du Sida (GAP-VIES) Promotion de la santé culturellement sécurisante aux personnes originaires de pays où la prévalence du VIH et de l'Hépatite C est élevée (Promotion of culturally safe health practices for people from countries with high prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis C) This project aims to prevent the transmission of HIV, hepatitis C, and other STBBI by offering support meetings, workshops, and training to key populations. The project will also offer educational seminars and workshops to healthcare professionals and organizations to ensure the offering of culturally safe services and the promotion of safe sexual behaviour in a non-stigmatizing manner.
Quebec CACTUS Montréal Interconnexion (Interconnection) The project aims to improve the capacity of people who use drugs and frequent downtown Montreal to prevent infection, including those who engage in sex work, marginalized youth under 30 and marginalized trans people. Better access to health services will be facilitated through STBBI screening promotion, peer accompaniment to screening, as well as follow-up and treatment.
Quebec L'Anonyme U.I.M. Mouve (Move) This project will build the capacity of young people aged 14 to 35, from Montreal's Caribbean and sub-Saharan communities to make informed choices and adopt behaviours that promote good sexual health through activities such as educational workshops, kiosks, and awareness-raising videos.
Quebec Spectre de rue (Dé)pisteurs de rue (Street Screening) This peer support project focuses on prevention, information and support for people who use drugs, as well as raising awareness among healthcare providers. The main objective is (re)connecting key populations to STBBI screening, treatment, follow-up and support services through activities such as street outreach; accompaniment to screening; informational workshops; distribution of safe-use supplies and prevention messaging.
Quebec Maison Plein Cœur Pour que la résilience soit positive ! (For Resilience to be Positive!) This project aims to address the unique needs of gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with other men; racialized and immigrant people, especially from the Caribbean, Africa, South America and the Middle East; and youth, women, and seniors from these communities to develop resilience in order to improve social involvement and decrease the impact of stigma. The project will focus prevention activities that aim to encourage better lifestyle habits in relation to the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STBBI.
Quebec Émissaire Programmes d'éducation à la santé sexuelle auprès de populations vulnérables aux VIH, VHC et les autres ITSS (Sexual Health Education Programs for Populations Vulnerable to HIV, HCV and other STBBI) This project will provide sexual health promotion interventions to people living in a correctional facility or recently released, and sex workers and their clients. The project aims to raise awareness about STBBI and promote a better understanding of various issues surrounding sexuality, self-knowledge, self-esteem, and the ability to assert oneself.
Quebec Centre d'amitié autochtone de Val d'Or Nopimik This project aims to build the capacity of members of the urban Indigenous community of Val-d'Or to prevent and improve health outcomes related to STBBI, improve access to screening and treatment, and increase the adoption of effective prevention measures for STBBI, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C.
Quebec Le DISPENSAIRE Atteindre ensemble les cibles mondiales en matière de VIH-VHC-ITSS dans les Laurentides (Working Together to Reach Global HIV/HCV/STI Targets in the Laurentians) This project will implement a collaborative public health and community based strategy to effectively address STBBI. The strategy will provide training to mobilize stakeholders and professionals to ensure stigma-free and culturally safe STBBI prevention, screening, treatment, continuing care and support services.
Quebec Centre d'Action Sida Montréal PLUS FORTES ENSEMBLE – renforcement des capacités pour lutter contre la stigmatisation (STRONGER TOGETHER – Capacity Building to Combat Stigmatization) This project will address external and internalized stigmatization of people living with HIV through the creation of a network of peer navigators with diverse experiences. The peers will contribute to the implementation of an empowerment program for people living with HIV to break isolation, strengthen skills and abilities, and enable people to live a better life.
Quebec Centre d'amitié autochtone La Tuque Miro pimatisiwin (qui signifie mieux-être en atikamekw) [Miro Pimatisiwin (meaning wellness in Atikamekw)] This project aims to strengthen knowledge about STBBI and increase the adoption of safer behaviours among the Indigenous population in the city of La Tuque. This project will improve access to testing and related treatment, continuing care and support services to improve the quality of life of community members through a series of workshops on awareness, prevention and referral to testing services.
New Brunswick Ensemble Greater Grand Moncton; AIDS New Brunswick; Avenue B Harm Reduction Seeing Beyond the Stigma This project will engage people who use substances in the development and delivery of training materials to educate frontline workers and health care professionals to build their knowledge and capacity to provide stigma-free, safe, culturally appropriate STBBI testing, treatment, care and support services.
New Brunswick John Howard Society of Southeastern New Brunswick STBBI Prevention Education and Community Care Planning This project will address the challenge of HIV, hepatitis C, and other STBBI amongst select federal and provincial prison populations in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The project will offer one-on-one support, and education sessions on prevention, testing, and support.
Nova Scotia Healing Our Nations (HON) Seeing it Our Way 2.0; Peer Led Stigma Free Intervention This project aims to reduce the stigma towards off-reserve Indigenous people living with and affected by HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI through a peer mentorship program and through interactive cultural awareness workshops.
Nova Scotia Health Equity Alliance of Nova Scotia (HEAL NS) HIV/HCV/STBBIs in NS: Bluenoser Prevention & Support This project will reduce the transmission of STBBI by providing four programs to priority populations: Gay, Bisexual and other Men who have sex with Men; Transgender and Non-Binary people; and people living with HIV and hepatitis C (HCV). The four programs include an STBBI prevention and leadership training program, a peer-driven STBBI testing promotion program, Trauma-Informed Care training program for service providers, and a provincial Knowledge Exchange Forum.
Prince Edward Island PEERS Alliance Supporting STBBI Prevention, Testing, and Treatment in Key Populations in PEI This project, informed by the experiences of directly impacted populations, will build the skills and abilities of service providers to provide culturally safe and stigma-free STBBI prevention, testing, treatment, and support services. It also aims to increase the knowledge and uptake of STBBI prevention among cis and trans-masculine gay, bisexual, 2-spirit, queer and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) living with and at risk for HIV in PEI.
Newfoundland and Labrador AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador (ACNL) Getting to Zero – Phase 2 This project will use a layered approach to address challenges related to HIV, hepatitis C, and other STBBI risks for key populations in Newfoundland and Labrador. It also aims to expand access to quality, evidence-based education and services, and increase the public's knowledge and awareness on transmission and testing options.
Newfoundland and Labrador Labrador Friendship Centre Sexual Health Information Exchange Labrador District (SHIELD) Project This project is a youth-led, adult supported initiative encouraging positive sexual health, personal wellness and healthy relationships through Art, Culture, and Technology activities for Indigenous Labradorians aged 11-24. SHIELD focuses on sexual health education, STBBI prevention, and harm reduction to increase capacity, knowledge, uptake and access to support services.
Northwest Territories FOXY SMASH: Preventing HIV, Hepatitis C & STBBI through Art This project will increase knowledge of effective evidence-based STBBI prevention measures among Northern and Indigenous young men (including trans men) and non-binary youth between the ages of 13-17. The program aims to improve access to effective STBBI prevention, testing and treatment by providing culturally safe and stigma-free education and training through school and community-based workshops in the North.
Yukon Blood Ties Four Directions Centre Society Upstream: Effective Interventions for Yukoners at Risk This project will address STBBI among three priority populations that are disproportionately impacted in Yukon; First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people; people living with HIV or hepatitis C (HCV); and people living in correctional facilities. The project will extend and adapt existing interventions and pilot new interventions, including educational and skill-building trainings for health and social service providers, educational interventions for priority populations, and awareness events and campaigns.

Harm Reduction Fund

Currently funded 2022–2027 projects for the Harm Reduction Fund
Location Organization Project title Project description
National Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation National Capacity-Building Community of Practice for Harm Reduction Services This project will develop the capacity of frontline service providers and organizations across Canada to provide culturally appropriate, stigma-free, trauma-informed safer substance use and harm reduction services guided by people with lived and living experience.
National CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks; Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation The Canoe: Indigenous Harm Reduction Wise Practices This project will increase the capacity of frontline healthcare professionals, services providers, and organizations to provide stigma-free and culturally safe harm reduction services for Indigenous people. This project will design harm reduction programs grounded in Indigenous ways of being and doing and contribute to decolonizing harm reduction services at non-Indigenous organizations.
National HIV Legal Network Realizing Health: Using Evidence and Rights to Enable Harm Reduction This project will increase knowledge and strengthen capacity of people who use drugs, service providers, and policy/program decision-makers to adopt legal and programmatic measures that facilitate access to and uptake of harm reduction services that prevent STBBI and other harms. This will be accomplished by documenting findings of consultations with key experts, analyzing barriers, and translating evidence into formats that are accessible and useful to target audiences.
British Columbia Positive Living North: No Kheyoh t'sih'en t'sehena Awakening Our Strength: A Harm Reduction Outreach Program This project will mobilize peer educators to provide knowledge and capacity to key populations and target audiences on the transmission of STBBI related to substance-use behaviours using a harm-reduction approach.
Alberta SafeLink Alberta Harm Reduction Peer Outreach Project – Southern Alberta This project aims to build the reach and capacity of the organization to offer high demand and rapidly growing harm reduction services in the area. The project will employ people who currently or formerly use drugs as Harm Reduction and Peer Outreach Workers to connect with others in the community to encourage uptake of harm reduction services and risk reduction practices.
Alberta Queer and Trans Health Collective Peer N Peer Harm Reduction Program This project engages 2SLGBTQ+ people in Edmonton who use substances, particularly those engaged in sexualized substance use, to prevent the transmission of HIV, hepatitis C, and other STBBIs. The project aims to increase the target population's skills and abilities to prevent infections and engage in safer sex practices, as well as increase uptake and access to health, social, and support
Alberta Northreach Society Harm Reduction Community Engagement & Education This project provides community-based supports to reduce HIV and hepatitis C for people who use drugs in Grande Prairie. The project will provide education regarding safer practices and referrals to services for prevention, testing, and care. The project will also prepare harm reduction kits, including best practice resources, for distribution at community pharmacies.
Saskatchewan Prairie Harm Reduction Safely Supporting People Who Use Substances: Saskatchewan's Standardized Frontline Training This project will reduce stigma for people who use drugs through training of care providers to improve safety and reduce stigma in both daily and crisis interactions. This project plans to develop and distribute evidence-based and culturally safe harm reduction training resources for care providers across Saskatchewan, focusing on "train-the-trainer" resources and training videos.
Saskatchewan All Nations Hope Network Expanding a Decolonized Approach to Harm Reduction Services in Regina This project will support three Indigenous Cultural/Health Navigators to provide frontline response, harm reduction, outreach and support to people living with HIV and people who use and share substance use equipment.
Manitoba Manitoba Harm Reduction Network (MHRN) "By Us, For Us" Peer-led STBBI testing Innovation in Southern Manitoba The purpose of this project is to improve access to effective STBBI prevention, testing, treatment, and ongoing care and support for people who use drugs by facilitating peer-led community based STBBI events. These events will create a stigma-free, culturally safe environment for people who use drugs to access health care and social services.
Manitoba Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority Indigenous Doulas Caring for People Who Use Substances This project aims to improve access to prenatal care by connecting individuals to STBBI screening, treatment, and parental support services through the introduction of Indigenous doulas. Harm reduction will also be enhanced with supply distribution and overdose prevention kit distribution.
Manitoba Manitoba Association of Community Health (MACH) Drug Culture Experts: Peer Leadership in Community Health This project will create a network of peer-directed community health services offering services ranging from an enhanced harm reduction supply distribution to an intentional network of primary care clinic days designed to reduce and eliminate stigma and meaningfully serve people who use drugs.
Ontario Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS); Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples; Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP); Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention of Metropolitan Toronto (Black CAP); and Action Positive: VIH–sida; Africans in Partnership Against AIDS (APAA) Building BIPOC Community Readiness for Harm Reduction This project is a community alliance that will strengthen the capacity of people who use and share substances within the African, Caribbean, Black, Asian, and Latino communities. The project will develop a harm reduction program that addresses the unique needs of this key population.
Ontario MAX Ottawa Peer N Peer This project will provide peer support, navigation programs, harm reduction projects, and overdose prevention activities to GBT2Q men who consume substances to reduce HIV and hepatitis C transmission across the National Capital Region.
Ontario Trellis HIV & Community Care UR Worx Harm Reduction Mobile Outreach Service This project makes services accessible and available to people living in rural, remote or isolated locations. Delivered by people with lived/living experience of substance use, the program provides harm reduction supplies, education, information and referrals.
Ontario AIDS Committee of Durham Region (ACDR) ACDR's Harm Reduction Expansion Program: Mobile and Peer Outreach This project will incorporate mobile and peer-based outreach into their existing harm reduction services. Mobile outreach will reduce barriers to accessing services by expanding hours of operation and offering delivery/pop-up services at locations frequented by people who use drugs, as well as remote or underserved areas.
Ontario MOYO Health and Community Services Harm Reduction Satellite Sites This project will identify apartments, supportive housing, shelters, etc. that have higher instances of substance use and will recruit and train peers, who preferably live in those locations, to provide harm reduction supports to other residents.
Ontario Positive Living Niagara Peer Outreach Support for Substance Users in Niagara The project aims to provide support to people who use drugs throughout the Niagara Region with the goal of reducing infections, increasing testing rates, and providing gender and culturally appropriate services.
Ontario Somerset West Community Health Centre Harm Reduction Peer Worker Project This project will recruit, train and support peer workers to undertake direct service provision to peers under supervision of a Project Coordinator. The project aims to engage with and strengthen the skills, competencies and abilities of people who use and share drug equipment to prevent HIV and hepatitis C.
Ontario South Riverdale Community Health Centre East Toronto Harm Reduction Outreach Expansion The project aims to engage with people who use and share drug equipment through educational events about overdose prevention, hepatitis C, HIV, and other STBBI. The project will expand outreach to social housing, community hubs, and other hot spots where people who use drugs are not well connected with harm reduction services.
Ontario Sherbourne Health Centre Corporation Increasing Peer-Based Leadership in Clinical Programs for People who use Drugs This project aims to hire Harm Reduction Navigators (HRNs) with lived experience of injection drug use to collaborate on the development and implementation of outreach activities, provide peer-support, and lead client-facing harm reduction, hepatitis C, and HIV prevention education.
Ontario Breakaway Community Services LGBTQ2S+ Harm Reduction Peer Training and Outreach This project will target underrepresented LGBTQ2S+ to provide focused harm reduction outreach to men who have sex with men/cisgender gay men. The project members will have the opportunity to gain employment experience, utilize their inherent skills and support harm reduction initiatives in the larger community.
Ontario Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project Street Sex Worker's Empowerment Project This project implements a peer outreach model of support and interventions to provide information, referrals, and harm reduction supplies to reduce the harm and risks of drug use amongst street-based sex workers living and working in downtown Toronto.
Quebec Regroupement des centres d'amitié autochtones du Québec (RCAAQ) Waseskun This project will support the actions of the ten Native Friendship Centres in Quebec affiliated with the RCAAQ to build the capacity of their staff to reduce the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C among people who share injection and inhalation drug equipment. It will also develop a variety of tools and levers to improve all services offered in Friendship Centres in relation to harm reduction, with the goal of increasing the overall well-being of urban Indigenous people.
Quebec CACTUS Montréal Accès-libre (Free Access) This project aims to improve HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI services and care for people who use injection and inhalation drugs and frequent downtown Montreal. The project will improve the prevention of STBBI through harm reduction and health education activities.
Quebec Projet L.U.N.E. Accompagnement des femmes par les paires en prévention ITSS (Peer Support for Women in STBBI Prevention) The project aims to strengthen the skills, abilities and capacities of marginalized women and/or sex workers/ex-sex workers who use substances by injection/inhalation and equip them with safe injection practices. The project will offer various training sessions to encourage the uptake of screening, treatment, and support resources.
Quebec Bureau régional d'action sida (Outaouais) Par, pour et avec toi (By, For, and With You) The project is targeted towards people who use injection and inhalation drug use equipment to inform and encourage them to adopt harm reduction strategies to reduce their risk of contracting or transmitting HIV or hepatitis C. The project will provide training to adopt behaviours that prevent infections.
Quebec Tandem Mauricie ENSEMBLE (TOGETHER) The project aims to increase the capacity of people who use injection and inhalation drug use equipment to adopt harm reduction strategies to reduce their risks of contracting and/or transmitting HIV and hepatitis C. The project will also strengthen the capacity of front-line professionals to provide culturally safe and stigma-free STBBI prevention, testing and care services.
Quebec Association Québécoise pour la promotion de la santé des personnes utilisatrices de drogue (AQPSUD) La santé en dehors comme en dedans (Health Inside and Out) The project will provide harm reduction and STI prevention resources for incarcerated people who use injection or inhalation drugs in Quebec correctional facilities. The project will also provide training around the provision of non-stigmatising prevention services for people who use drugs among health professionals and prison workers in Quebec.
New Brunswick John Howard Society of Southeastern New Brunswick HIV/Hep C Prevention through Urban and Rural Outreach This project will build on existing mobile outreach services provided by the organization and community partners, by expanding the reach and capacity of a peer-led outreach team into rural communities surrounding the Greater Moncton Area. This peer-based outreach program will use an integrated design to reduce stigmatization and discrimination, reduce barriers to accessing services needed for people who use drugs and/or experience homelessness.
New Brunswick Avenue B Harm Reduction Stronger Together – A Peer Project This project will prevent the spread of HIV, hepatitis C and other STBBI by employing and utilizing people with lived experience to increase access to those living on the margins. They will increase the number of peer helpers to assist those living on the margins to access their organization.
Nova Scotia Hepatitis Outreach Society of Nova Scotia Connect This project will provide education, referrals, and support to communities across Nova Scotia. Outreach workers and peer navigators will educate people who use drugs on HIV, hepatitis C, and STBBI prevention measures, and the process of testing, treatment, follow up and prevention of re-infection.
Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society Atlantic Peers Promote Outreach and Cultural Safety for Health (APPROACH) This project provides outreach and in-reach services to people who use drugs to reduce risks and stigma. The APPROACH project will develop and deliver an enhanced focus on harm reduction for Indigenous people in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada through targeted programming, education and partnership with Indigenous-serving organizations and Indigenous communities.
Nova Scotia The Ally Centre of Cape Breton Peers Leading the Way to Testing and Treatment This project will strengthen the knowledge of risk factors associated with HIV and hepatitis C and reduce risk-taking behaviour of people who share drug use equipment in Cape Breton through peer education and outreach; safer supply distribution and disposal; promoting testing and treatment; and by offering support services and follow-up to those undergoing testing and/or treatment.

Contact us

For more information regarding the Harm Reduction Fund or Community Action Fund, please contact the Centre for Grants and Contributions, Public Health Agency of Canada: phac.cgc.solicitations2-csc-aspc@phac-aspc.gc.ca.

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