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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

|

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

|

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:

Alberta HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) guidelines

2021

|

Alberta Health Services

PrEP guidelines in Alberta

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

PrEP and PEP

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Alberta guidelines for post-exposure management and prophylaxis: HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted infections

2019

|

Government of Alberta

PEP guidelines in Alberta

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

PrEP and PEP

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Antiretroviral therapy in pregnant women living with HIV: a clinical practice guideline

2017

|

BMJ

Recommendations for ARV prescriptions for pregnant women living with HIV. Includes infographic tools

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

Pregnancy and Parenting, HIV Treatment

Health Care Providers

Audience:

BCCDC Non-certified Practice Decision Support Tool:
HIV Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (HIV PrEP)

2024

|

BC Centre for Disease Control

Guidance for a registered nurse in assessing and managing individuals eligibile for or currently taking PrEP

Type:

Toolkit

Topic:

PrEP and PEP

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Baby formula programs for people living with HIV

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CATIE

A list of free baby formula programs in Canada for people living with HIV

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

Breast and Chest Feeding

Pregnancy

Audience:

Background on bacterial vaginosis in women

2016

|

CATIE

A fact sheet on bacterial vaginosis in women including information on symptoms, risk factors, implications, and treatment

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

Sexual Health

Women

Audience:

Because She Cares: African, Caribbean and Black women living with HIV engaged in (un)caring work in HIV organizations

2022

|

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:

Best Practice Recommendations for Canadian Harm Reduction Programs

2021

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Working Group on Best Practice for Harm Reduction Programs in Canada

Guidelines for providing harm reduction supplies

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

Harm Reduction and Addiction Care

Community Organizations

Audience:

Blood and body fluid exposure management

2018

|

Yukon Health and Social Services

Yukon guidelines on the assessment of risk and management of persons potentially exposed to HBV, HCV, and HIV

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

HIV Testing, HIV Treatment

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Bone Health of Women Living and Aging with HIV

2018

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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

A webinar discussing recent research into bone health of women living with HIV and healthcare recommendations

Type:

Video

Topic:

Menopause

Health Care Providers

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

|

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:

Cabergoline FAQ Sheet

2019

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Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN)

A fact sheet about cabergoline, a medication that stops breast/chest milk production for people who want to formula feed instead of breast/chest feed

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

Breast and Chest Feeding

Women, Pregnancy

Audience:

Canadian HIV guidelines

2022

|

CATIE

A repository of Canadian guidelines in PrEP, PEP, Harm reduction, treatment, testing, and pregnancy care

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

PrEP and PEP, Harm Reduction and Addiction Care, HIV Testing, HIV Treatment, Pregnancy and Parenting

Health Care Providers

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

|

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

|

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:

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

2020

|

CHIWOS, Centre for Effective Practice (CEP)

A toolkit for healthcare providers and community based organizations on delivering women-centred HIV care.

Type:

Toolkit

Topic:

Women-Centred Health Care

Women

Audience:

Caring for clients who are at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS

2013

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Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

Guidelines for nursing care for people living with HIV

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

HIV Treatment

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Chatty CATIE: Woman to Woman

2019

|

CATIE

Three woman living with HIV share what they would say to a best friend who was diagnosed with HIV

Type:

Blog Post

Topic:

Peer Stories

Women, Policy-Makers, Health Care Providers

Audience:

Chlamydia

2023

|

CATIE

A fact sheet about chlamydia including symptoms, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

Sexual Health

Women, 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:

Clinical care guidelines for adults and adolescents living with HIV in Ontario, Canada

2017

|

OHTN HIV Clinical Guidelines Working Group.

Guidelines for caring for people living with HIV in Ontario

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

HIV Treatment

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Considerations for trans, Two-Spirit, & other gender diverse people in HIV primary care

2022

|

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

|

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:

Consolidated guidelines on the use of Antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV Infection

2016

|

WHO

The second edition of WHO recommendations for ARV use. These recommendations take a public health approach.

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

HIV Treatment

Policy-Makers, Health Care Providers

Audience:

Creating Authentic Spaces: A Gender Identity and Gender Expression Toolkit

2017

|

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:

Doxycycline to help prevent bacterial STIs

2024

|

CATIE

Information about Doxycycline including how it works, it's effectiveness, accessibility, side effects, and who should consider taking it

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

Sexual Health

Health Care Providers, Women

Audience:

FAQs about HIV PrEP

2024

|

BC Centre for Disease Control

A fact sheet about PrEP. Also offered in Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Farsi, French, Arabic, Korean, and Punjabi.

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

PrEP and PEP

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Fact Sheet: HIV Treatment and an Undetectable Viral Load to Prevent HIV Transmission

2020

|

CATIE

A fact sheet about U=U

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

HIV Treatment

Pregnancy

Audience:

Feeding your baby

2024

|

CATIE

A guide to infant feeding for people living with HIV.

Type:

Toolkit

Topic:

Breast and Chest Feeding

Pregnancy

Audience:

GLAD I TESTED

2016

|

Women's Health in Women's Hands

Video of 5 women living with HIV sharing their testing story

Type:

Video

Topic:

Peer Stories, HIV Testing

Women

Audience:

Genital herpes

2023

|

CATIE

A fact sheet about genital herpes including symptoms, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

Sexual Health

Women, Health Care Providers

Audience:

Gonorrhea

2023

|

CATIE

A fact sheet about gonorrhea including symptoms, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

Sexual Health

Women, Health Care Providers

Audience:

Growing Your Family

2020

|

CATIE, Canadian HIV Pregnancy Planning Guidelines

An introduction to pregnancy planning, surrogacy and adoption for people living with HIV.

Type:

Toolkit

Topic:

Pregnancy and Parenting

Pregnancy

Audience:

Guidance for the use of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the Prevention of HIV Acquisition in British Columbia

2020

|

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

PrEP guidelines in BC

Type:

Guidelines

Topic:

PrEP and PEP

Health Care Providers

Audience:

Guide pour la prophylaxie et le suivi après une exposition au VIH, au VHB et au VHC

2019

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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 Housing Toolkit

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Pacific AIDS Network (PAN)

A guide to housing in BC, finding a place, moving, trouble shooting housing conflicts, and HIV stigma in housing. Provides budget sheets and other tools to support the house hunting/moving process

Type:

Toolkit

Topic:

Social Support

Women

Audience:

HIV Made Me Fabulous: Screening and discussion

2021

|

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

|

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 considerations for gender diverse patients

2020

|

Trans Care BC

A fact sheet about PrEP use among gender diverse patients, including impacts on hormone use

Type:

Fact Sheet

Topic:

PrEP and PEP

Health Care Providers

Audience:

HIV PrEP for Trans and Gender Diverse People in BC

2023

|

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:

HIV Pregnancy Planning Clinical Counselling Algorithm

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Canadian HIV Pregnancy Planning Guidelines (CHPPG)

A decision making algorithm to help care providers counsel people living with HIV who want to become pregnant

Type:

Toolkit

Topic:

Pregnancy and Parenting

Health Care Providers

Audience:

HIV Pregnancy Planning Pocket Guide

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Canadian HIV Pregnancy Planning Guidelines (CHPPG)

A step-by-step guide to pregnancy planning

Type:

Toolkit

Topic:

Pregnancy and Parenting

Health Care Providers

Audience:

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