Related HIV Resources

This page brings together related HIV resources on HIV testing, clinical care, public health, and HIV criminalization.

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HIV Testing & Clinical Care

Links to online resources focused on HIV testing and clinical care in Ontario

HIV testing

Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) and HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario

Information on anonymous and nominal HIV testing and reporting in Ontario, and informed consent.

HIV testing

Mapping Sero Surveillance

Check out a map of anonymous HIV testing sites across Ontario. 

HIV testing

HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario

Information from HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario on HIV testing and your rights to privacy, consent. Inculdes information on anonymous and nominal testing.

HIV testing and monitoring 

Public Health Ontario 

This webpage provides diagnostic serology testing information for HIV-related tests performed by Public Health Ontario (PHO), including information on how HIV test samples and results are handled, stored, and reported.

HIV testing

Public Health Agency of Canada

An infographic on how the federal government collects HIV test results and demographic information to understand the scale of HIV on a national level, including how they do not collect personally identifiable information.

HIV testing

CATIE

HIV Testing Process and Technologies information from CATIE, Canada's source for HIV information.

HIV testing

HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario and HIV Legal Network

Information self-testing to support people to understand the human rights implications before they take a test. From a range of organizations, including HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, HIV Legal Network, and Women's Health in Women's Hands.

HIV testing

HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario

Information sheet explaining self-testing, confrimatory tests, and legal obligations.

HIV Epidemiology

Online resources focused on up-to-date information on the numbers of HIV tests and people diagnosed across Ontario and Canada

HIV epidemiology

The Ontario HIV Epidemiology and Surveillance Initiative (OHESI)

The objectives of OHESI are to analyze, monitor and disseminate knowledge on the epidemiology of HIV in Ontario.

HIV epidemiology

Public Health Agency of Canada

The HIV in Canada, Surveillance Report to December 31, 2023, published by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) presents and describes national epidemiological trends on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnoses in Canada by geographic region, age at diagnosis, sex, race and/or ethnicity, and exposure category between 2014 and 2023.

Supports and Rights for People Living with HIV

Links to the HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario - HALCO

Supports & Rights

HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario 

HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario is a charitable not-for-profit community-based legal clinic that provides free legal services for people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada.

Supports & Rights

Ontario AIDS Network

Information from the HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO) on HIV testing and your rights to privacy, consent. Inculdes information on anonymous and nominal testing. 

Supports & Rights

HIV Legal Network

Information on your rights, privacy and your health records. 

Supports & Rights

HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario

Information from the HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario on HIV testing and your rights to privacy, consent. Inculdes information on anonymous and nominal testing.

HIV & Criminalization

Links to organizations working to end the criminalization of HIV in Canada

HIV criminalization

HIV Legal Network 

This is the HIV criminalization focused webpage of the HIV Legal Network, including videos, reports, and other resources developed to help counter the harms of criminalizing HIV.

HIV criminalization

Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization

The Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization (CCRHC) is a national coalition of people living with HIV, community organizations, lawyers, researchers, and others formed in October 2016. It includes a steering committee on which a majority of members are people living with HIV.

HIV criminalization

HIV Legal Network

This guide was prepared by the HIV Legal Network to answer some common questions about HIV disclosure and the criminal law in Canada. This guide gives you legal information, not legal advice — the difference between the two is important.

HIV criminalization

HALCO - HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario

Information sheet on HIV and the criminal law in Canada.

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