Presentations
We want to ensure the community has up to date, accurate information regarding HIV and AIDS, Hepatitis C (HCV) and other communicable diseases. You can request a presentation that is listed below or request a specific topic tailored to your audience and needs.
Some of the communities that we present to have been schools, universities, youth groups, prisons, health service providers and corporations.
Presentations can be tailored for:
- MSM (Men who have Sex with Men)
- ACB (African, Caribbean and Black)
- Indigenous Communities
- Prison Population
- LGBTQ
- People Living with HIV
- Seniors
- Service Providers/Health Practitioners
Get in touch with us below and Request a Presentation!
- HIV Myths
- HIV & the immune system
- Prevention
- Transmission equation
- Testing
- Harm Reduction
- Stigma & discrimination
- HIV information in a way that youth can understand
- Focus on reducing risk & eliminating behaviours that put you at risk
- Includes information on STI’s and sexual health
Dynamics of HIV is a 2 day capacity building workshop focused on service providers that can be adapted to meet the needs of the audience. Adaptations have included; inner city agencies, African, Caribbean & Black Communities, Aboriginal Communities and MSM. This workshop is offered 2-3 times a year and requires registration. Please see events listing for upcoming Dynamics workshops.
Topics include:
- Introduction to HIV Edmonton
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- HIV 101
- Determinants of Heath
- Harm Reduction
- Viral Replication Cycle
- Stigma and Discrimination
- HIV Treatment, Medication and Side Effects
- Living with HIV- Physical, Sexual and Mental Health
- How the virus makes more copies of itself in the body
- CD4 counts
- Viral loads
- How HIV medications work
- Starting treatment
- Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART)
- Side effects
- Adherence
- Resistance
- Transmission equation
- Behavioural and biomedical strategies to reduce the risk of infection
- Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Treatment as Prevention (TasP)
- Research – vaccine, cure, microbicides
