Centralized Repository
This national, web-based repository hosts a number of resources relating to women-centred HIV care, including pregnancy and parenting, breast- and chestfeeding, HIV treatment, menopause, gender diverse health care, and more information relevant to Canadians. The repository aims to connect anyone looking for HIV knowledge focused on women and gender diverse people, as the WCHC Hub hopes to improve outcomes for this population and promote the consideration of their unique needs and challenges.
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Search the repository now to find resources across Canada for women, health care providers, policy-makers, community organizations, and other HIV advocates!
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Note: You can also find many of these materials cross-linked to the CATIE 'WhereTo?' repository, whom the WCHC Hub partnered with to create a 'Reproductive Health' category in 2024. See the CATIE WhereTo? repository at www.whereto.catie.ca.
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A clinical practice guide: What HIV care providers need to know about HIV pregnancy planning to optimize preconception care for their patients
2020
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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease
The Canadian HIV Pregnancy planning guidelines repackaged into 5 standards of care
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Pregnancy and Parenting
Health Care Providers
Audience:
A practical clinical guide to counselling on and managing contraception, pre-conception planning, and menopause for women living with HIV
2021
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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Guidance on discussing contraception, pre-conception planning, and menopause with WLWH
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Pregnancy and Parenting, Menopause
Health Care Providers
Audience:
Addressing HPV-Related Cancer Risk Among Adult Women: A Guide for Health Care Providers
2018
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Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN)
"This guide provides health care providers with information on: 1) Human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV related cancers among adult women, and the importance of HPV vaccination in this population; and 2) how to communicate with women about HPV-related cancer prevention and the HPV vaccine" - Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN)
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Sexual Health
Health Care Providers
Audience:
Because She Cares: African, Caribbean and Black women living with HIV engaged in (un)caring work in HIV organizations
2022
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CATIE
"This webinar aims to create a collective virtual space to mobilize knowledge and findings from Because She Cares, a collaborative poetic project and film which centres stories by African, Caribbean and Black women engaged in HIV service and allied-health organizations." - CATIE
Type:
Video
Topic:
Peer Stories, ACB
Trans
Audience:
Brazen 2.0 is a safer sex guide for trans women.
2017
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The 519 Church Street Community Centre
"Covers disclosure, negotiation and consent, sex work, safer sex, transition-related surgeries, and provides up-to-date information on advances in HIV prevention and treatment, the realities of online dating and internet culture, and access to trans-inclusive health care." - The 519
Type:
Toolkit
Topic:
Trans and Gender Diverse, Sexual Health
Women
Audience:
CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network Coinfection and
Concurrent Diseases Core Research Group: 2016 Updated
Canadian HIV/Hepatitis C Adult Guidelines for
Management and Treatment
2016
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Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
Guidelines on the management and treatment of HIV/Hep C coinfection
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
HIV Treatment
Women
Audience:
Canadian Paediatric & Perinatal HIV/AIDS Research Group consensus recommendations for infant feeding in the HIV context
2023
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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canadda
The Canadian infant feeding consensus guideline is designed to inform and enable better care for women with HIV and their babies.
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Breast and Chest Feeding
Health Care Providers
Audience:
Canadian Paediatric and Perinatal HIV/AIDS Research Group consensus recommendations for infant feeding in the HIV context
2023
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Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada (JAMMI)
The Canadian infant feeding consensus guideline is designed to inform and enable better care for women with HIV and their babies.
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Breast and Chest Feeding
Health Care Providers
Audience:
Canadian guideline on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis
2018
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Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
National guidelines for the prescribing of PrEP and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in Canada. These guidelines include evidence-informed recommendations on how to assess patient eligibility for PrEP and how to correctly prescribe it. (CATIE)
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
PrEP and PEP
Health Care Providers
Audience:
Chlamydia among young women: A resource for population-specific prevention
2015
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Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
"This resource synthesizes evidence, assesses the effectiveness of behavioural interventions and provides promising practices and evidence-informed strategies for the prevention of chlamydia among young women aged 30 and under. It is intended to support public health professionals and community organizations in the development of evidence-informed strategies for the prevention of chlamydia among this population." - CATIE
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Sexual Health, Women-Centred Health Care
Community Organizations, Health Care Providers
Audience:
Considerations for trans, Two-Spirit, & other gender diverse people in HIV primary care
2022
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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Shares the landscape of health care resources, primary care and HIV specific care, and screening considerations for trans, Two-spirit, and gender diverse people living with HIV
Type:
Video
Topic:
Trans and Gender Diverse, Indigenous
Health Care Providers
Audience:
Consolidated guideline on sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV
2019
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World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO's recommendations on promoting and protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Women-Centred Health Care
Health Care Providers, Community Organizations, Policy-Makers
Audience:
Creating Authentic Spaces: A Gender Identity and Gender Expression Toolkit
2017
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The 519 Church Street Community Centre
A toolkit for CBOs to make their organizations more inclusive and safe for gender identity and gender expression
Type:
Toolkit
Topic:
Trans and Gender Diverse
Community Organizations, Policy-Makers, Health Care Providers
Audience:
Guide pour la prophylaxie et le suivi après une exposition au VIH, au VHB et au VHC
2019
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Ministry of Health and Social Services of Quebec
Quebec guide to prophylaxis and follow up after exposure to HIV, HBV, and HCV
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
HIV Testing, HIV Treatment, PrEP and PEP
Health Care Providers
Audience:
Guideline No. 450: Care of Pregnant Women Living with HIV and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission
2024
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Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
An update to the no 310 guidelines for the care of pregnant women living iwth HIV and prevention of perinatal HIV transmission
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Pregnancy and Parenting
Health Care Providers, Pregnancy
Audience:
Guidelines for Gender-Affirming Primary Care with Trans and Non-binary patients
2019
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Sherbourne Health
An evidence-informed guide for care providers caring for trans and nonbinary patients, developed by Sherbourne Health Centre
Type:
Toolkit
Topic:
Trans and Gender Diverse
Trans, Health Care Providers
Audience:
Guidelines for the Care of Pregnant Women Living With HIV and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission: Executive Summary
2014
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Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Guidelines for prevention of vertical HIV transmission. Please note that recommendations related to HIV transmission and infant feeding have evolved since these guidelines were first published.
Type:
Guidelines
Topic:
Pregnancy and Parenting
Health Care Providers
Audience:
HIV Made Me Fabulous: Screening and discussion
2021
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CATIE
A webinar featuring a screening of "HIV Made Me Fabulous" - a film about the story of Juno Roche, a writer, activist, and trans woman living with HIV - and subsequent discussion about the film.
Type:
Video
Topic:
Peer Stories, Trans and Gender Diverse
ACB, Women, Community Organizations
Audience:
HIV Parenting Choices
2024
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HIV Parenting Choices
A website sharing information about being parents while living with HIV, centering stories from people living with HIV. Information is for people living with HIV, care providers, and friends/family.
Type:
Toolkit
Topic:
Pregnancy and Parenting, Peer Stories
Women, Community Organizations, Trans, Pregnancy
Audience:
HIV PrEP for Trans and Gender Diverse People in BC
2023
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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Discusses indications of HIV PrEP, considerations for HIV prevention counselling, and specific considerations for prescribing and supporting engagement in HIV PrEP for trans and gender diverse people
Type:
Video
Topic:
Trans and Gender Diverse, PrEP and PEP
Health Care Providers
Audience: