[Viva] Fwd: Save the Date: Canadian Webinar Series on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Resilience, Self-Efficacy, and Peer Support Friday, March 9th 9:00 PST/12:00 EST/18:00 Geneva

Mon Mar 5 10:58:37 PST 2018

This webinar is open to anyone who signs up.

Hi CHIWOS team,

I apologize to those of you who have already received this information, but
I want to make sure everyone knows about the upcoming webinar in the *Canadian
Webinar Series: Resilience, Self-efficacy, and Peer Support on Friday,
March 9th 9:00-10:30AM PST,* 12:00 -1:30PM EST, and 6:00-7:30PM in
Geneva. All the information is below. Feel free to pass the invitation
below on to your networks!

Best wishes,

Sarah

Dear Colleagues,

The *Canadian Webinar Series on Sexual and Reproductive Health and
Rights *would
like to invite you to '*Save the Date' *for the fourth of a multi-phase
series of webinars focused on key aspects regarding the sexual and
reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV in Canada:

*Resilience, Self-Efficacy, and Peer Support:*

*Canadian Webinar Series on Implementing the WHO Consolidated Guideline on
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV*

*Friday, March 9th, 2018*: 9:00-10:30AM PST, 12:00 -1:30PM EST, and 6:00
-7:30PM in Geneva.

*Please register at:* https://attendee.gotowebinar.c
om/register/1453739478222693377

*Webinar ID:* 154-319-107

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*WHO Consolidated Guideline Executive summary:*
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/254634/1/WHO-RHR-17.03-eng.pdf?ua=1

*Link to the webinar on the consolidated guideline:*

https://webinar.com/channel/965084607443925509/recording/3aa
1937a10ff4ee3a5aae341092f4112/watch

*Webinar #1: Trauma and Violence Aware Care:*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSNlf29Q7rw

*Webinar #2: Supporting Safe HIV Disclosure:*

https://youtu.be/leAlj4pP7HU

*Webinar #3: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice:*

https://youtu.be/rhhrFTxspq4

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The World Health Organization 2017 *Consolidated guideline on the sexual
and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women living with HIV* is
grounded in and advocates for a strengthened, comprehensive, woman-centered
approach to SRHR. The guideline outlines evidence-based recommendations and
good practice statements for key operational and service delivery issues
that need to be addressed in order to uphold human rights and promote
gender equality. Unique to the development of this guideline, a global
community survey was conducted on the SRHR priorities of women living with
HIV. Throughout the guidelines the integration of peer support in service
and community provision was noted as particularly important to the creation
of enabling environments in which women living with HIV can thrive.

In Canada, people living with HIV who have access to and the support to
adhere to antiretroviral therapy (ART) are able to live longer, healthier
lives with effectively no risk of HIV transmission to sexual partners.
These benefits of ART have not been extended equitably to all: women living
with HIV have poorer HIV-related care outcomes than men across the HIV care
cascade. Navigating health and social care remains challenging for many,
particularly against a background of pervasive gendered and social
disparities and HIV-related stigma. Interventions that foster peer-support,
maximize individual strengths, and are responsive to community and cultural
priorities have been identified as key strategies for building and shaping
resilience, self-efficacy, and health among women living with HIV.

Some clinics and community-based organizations across Canada have
integrated strategies to engage women in their own care and to strengthen
the role of peer support. However, better guidance is needed regarding how
best to ‘Support the Supporter’ and foster peer leadership, resilience, and
self-efficacy among women living with HIV. This webinar will offer insight
into the pathways towards and factors that contribute to resilience and
self-efficacy among women living with HIV. During the webinar, women living
with HIV, together with front-line community workers, researchers,
clinicians, and policy makers, will share research and best-practice
implementation strategies that prioritize GIPA (Greater Involvement of
People Living with HIV) and MIWA (Meaningful Involvement of Women Living
with HIV) principles to provide peer support, foster peer leadership, and
support the resilience and self-efficacy of women living with HIV .

You are warmly invited to join this webinar on *Resilience, Self-Efficacy,
and Peer Support**,* *(in English*) *Friday, March 9th 2018*: 9:00-10:30AM
PST, 12:00 -1:30PM EST, and 6:00 -7:30PM in Geneva.

*Webinar Objectives:*

The overall goal of the webinar series is to *support implementation of the
WHO consolidated guidelines on the sexual and reproductive health and
rights of women living with HIV*.

Specific objectives include to:

   - *Provide an overview *of current research about *resilience among
   women living with HIV and pathways between resilience and self-efficacy and
   other health outcomes *in the Canadian context using data from the
   Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS);
   - *Introduce strategies and programs *developed by women living with HIV
   and allied researchers, clinicians, and serviced providers to understand
   the importance of peer support and leadership and capacity building in
   fostering resilience and self-efficacy, and how best to support peer
   leaders;
   - *Gain insights* from women living with HIV to highlight gaps in
   research and priority areas for further attention;
   - *Develop an action plan *on how to support the sexual and reproductive
   health and rights of women living with HIV in the Canadian context,
   including best practices to foster resilience, self-efficacy, peer
   support, and peer leadership among women living with HIV

*Please follow this link to register for the webinar: *

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1453739478222693377

*Webinar ID: *

154-319-107

*Please contact Sarah Watt, Webinar Series Coordinator, at **sawatt at sfu.ca*
<sawatt at sfu.ca>* for more information.*

*Webinar speakers: *

*Tracey Conway: *

Tracey Conway is a Community researcher who has just completed the CANOC
Community Investigator project. She has been involved in HIV and women's
research since 2000. Tracey is also the Co-chair of the Canadian Positive
People Network.

*Kerrigan Johnson:*

Kerrigan is currently the Executive Director of 2 Spirited People of the
1st Nations, who also works as a Research Assistant for Women's College
Research Initiative.

*Manjulaa Narasimhan: *

Manjulaa coordinates WHO's work on strengthening linkages between sexual
and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV interventions – at
advocacy, policy, programmatic and research levels. This includes the
development of WHO global guidance and tools on the SRHR for women living
with HIV as well as the SRHR of adolescent girls and young women.

*Carmen Logie: *

Carmen is an Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work,
University of Toronto and an Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation
Early Researcher. Her research explores the social ecological contexts of
health and well-being of people living with, and at elevated risk for, HIV
in Canada and globally.

*Kath Webster: *

Kath Webster has been actively engaged in the HIV community since her
diagnosis in 1995. She currently volunteers as a trainer for the Positive
Leadership Development Institute and is a Peer Research Associate with
CHIWOS, and has presented at conferences locally, provincially and
nationally. Kath believes strongly in the empowerment of people living with
HIV and the great value of peer-based approaches within the HIV community.

*Allyson Ion: *

Allyson Ion is a PhD Candidate in Social Work at McMaster University. She
has worked and volunteered in the HIV sector since 2001 contributing to
community development, education, and research initiatives including
community-based HIV research in the areas of women, peer support and
mothering. Allyson's doctoral research uses institutional ethnography to
investigate the health services that women living with HIV utilize during
pregnancy, childbirth and early postpartum.

*Shazia Islam: *

Shazia, a.k.a. Shaz, is the PHA Support Coordinator at the Alliance for
South Asian AIDS Prevention, Research Assistant for the CHIWOS study at
Women’s College Hospital, and an editor for 7.10 Stories. Shaz embraces
she/her and they/them pronouns. Shaz has taken on the roles of project
coordinator, project mentor, and editor for the POZ women’s anthology
initiative at ASAAP: More Than Fiction Volume 1 and 2. Shaz is thankful for
the capacity-building opportunities offered by community partners like the
Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment and the Positive Leadership
Development Institute. Academic credentials include a bachelor’s degree in
Political Science from the University of British Columbia and a diploma in
Journalism from Humber College. In her spare time, Shaz serves as a board
member for the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations and is a caregiver
to two senior cats.

*Doris Peltier: *

Doris Peltier is the National Coordinator for Visioning Health II (VHII), a
4 year Intervention study for HIV-positive Indigenous women in Canada; in
partnership with the University of Victoria and the Canadian Aboriginal
AIDS Network (CAAN). Her current roles include CAAN rep with the Community
Advisory Committee at the CIHR-Canadian HIV Trials Network; Co-chair of the
Community Aboriginal Advisory Board for Positive Aboriginal Women (CAAB
PAW) with the Canadian HIV Women's Sexual Reproductive Health Cohort Study
(CHIWOS); Community Advisory Council member with the Waakebiness-Bryce
Institute for Indigenous Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health
(University of Toronto) and Co-chair for Health for People Who use Drugs
Working Group (HfPWUD) at the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network. Her
interests are in Advocacy, Indigenous Knowledge, KTE and Indigenous health
research.

This project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada

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-- 
All the best,

VIVA Working Group
vivawomen at gmail.com
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