Women & HIV/AIDS: An Introductory Toolkit

Description: This toolkit, developed by WHAI (Women & HIV/AIDS Initiative), is meant to assist community organizations who work with women living with HIV and AIDS or who are facing systemic risk factors for HIV transmission, however, it may act as a good information resource for women & femmes who have been recently diagnosed.

Women-Centred HIV Care: Information for Women

Description: This toolkit was made lovingly in partnership with women living with HIV, to support women like you to receive the care you deserve. We call this care 'women-centred HIV care' (for more information on the Women-Centred HIV Care model see page 27). The purpose of this toolkit is to give you the information that you need to advocate for and make informed choices about your health care. You can bring this toolkit to all your appointments. This includes appointments with your main care provider, hospitals and specialists. All parts of this toolkit are important for women living with HIV.

Your Sexual Health: A guide for People Living with HIV

Description: A sexual health toolkit made for people living with HIV with the goal to describe the impact of the U=U campaign and to explain what it means for the sexual health of people living with HIV. This guide also outlines the pleasures and the pitfalls of the new approaches to sex in the context of HIV.

Women Lovin’: A Sexual Health Guide for Queer Women

Description: A sexual health toolkit made for queer women. Includes information and resources about HIV, contraceptives, different sexual acts, sexually transmitted infections and sexual assault.

A Safer Sex Guide

Description: This guide will help you take charge of your sexual health by giving you tips to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and explaining how you can make sex safer. There are many types of STIs, and this guide explores some common ones.

Coming soon!

Is Formula Good for My Baby?

Description: In Ontario, mothers living with HIV are recommended to exclusively formula feed their babies to eliminate the risk of HIV transmission. This booklet reminds women that they can still bond with their babies during formula feeding, talks about how to cope with feelings around being told not to breastfeed and answers questions related to the law.

Coming soon!

Trans Women: Trans Health Matters

Description: This health guide discusses and sheds light on four main issues relevant for trans-women, these being: their well-being, medical treatments, their sexual health and HIV.

HIV Legal Network – Know Your Rights

• Description: The HIV Legal Network has developed a series of 8 brochures that discuss privacy rights and the responsibility to disclose. Brochures include disclosure & accommodation at work, parenting and disclosure at school. Available in 7 languages.

• Disclosure at work

• Accommodation in the workplace

• Remedies for discrimination and privacy violations in the workplace

• Disclosure and post-secondary education

• Disclosure as a patient

• Privacy and health records

• Disclosure in school and daycare

• Disclosure, privacy and parenting

HIV Criminalization in Canada

Description: This toolkit by Positive Side, a health and wellness magazine for people living with HIV, answers the questions:

• Why do I have to disclose my HIV status before sex?

• When do I have to disclose my HIV status before sex?

• How have these laws affected Canadians living with HIV?

• How are things changing?

• What does this all mean?

• and more, to help you understand HIV criminalization in Canada

The Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure

Description: This document provides an overview of the current (2019) laws and policies governing HIV non-disclosure in Canada.

Caring for Women Living with HIV: Women-Centred HIV Care

Description: This toolkit is intended to support clinicians and community-based organizations in providing women-centred care for all people who identify as women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Canada. All clinicians who interact with women living with HIV need to practice from a women-centred lens.

Supporting Mothers in Ways that Work: A Resource Toolkit for Service Providers Working with Mothers Living with HIV

Description: This toolkit is the culmination of multiple conversations over many years with women living with HIV, researchers, clinicians, nurses, social workers, HIV support workers and other community-based service providers who are committed to addressing issues of social justice and care for mothers living with HIV. This toolkit was developed by a large team including mothers living with HIV and community-based researchers with the goal to support health and social care providers in effectively meeting the needs of mothers living with HIV. We aim to increase awareness and understanding of the psychosocial needs and experiences of women living with HIV during pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood.

Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Harm Reduction Programs

Description: This toolkit outlines best practice recommendations for Canadian programs that provide harm reduction supplies to people who use drugs and are at a risk for HIV.

Sherbourne’s Guidelines for Gender-Affirming Primary Care with Trans and Non-Binary patients

Description: This is the 4th edition of Sherbourne’s Guidelines. This toolkit incorporates recently available evidence in both general primary care and trans health with expanded discussion of of considerations for non-binary patients, fertility considerations for trans people, HIV prevention and treatment in trans-feminine populations, and more.