Clinical trials play a pivotal role in advancing medical research and shaping the future of healthcare by evaluating the safety and efficacy of new treatments andinterventions. However, ensuring diverse participation in these trials is essential to truly understand how treatments work across different populations. By includingindividuals from diverse backgrounds, including various racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and…
In this recording of a talk presented at the 2025 CTN+ Spring Meetings, Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw describes the extent and impact of inequalities in health research, potential solutions and frameworks, and practical guidance to achieve health equity.
This resource, developed in partnership with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, explains the important role of privacy and confidentiality in reducing stigma and discrimination related to STBBIs, and offers frontline health and social service providers several strategies they can use to deal with issues related to privacy, confidentiality, the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure and stigma reduction.
This guide aims to reduce stigma by offering strategies that facilitate safer and more respectful discussions about sexual health, substance use and STBBIs between service providers and clients. The guide also offers ways to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of STBBIs.
Trauma- and violence-informed care (TVIC) is a framework that helps individuals and organizations provide safe and inclusive sexual health, substance use and STBBI-related services. TVIC reduces service barriers and promotes strategies and changes in organizations to result in more caring, compassionate, person-centered and non-judgmental care.
This tool provides general recommendations for using a trauma-informed approach when performing any physical examinations or procedures, focusing on language and maneuvers intended to increase patients’ sense of comfort, safety and control during examination.
This toolkit provides a catalogue of anti-stigma communications and community engagement resources on-demand for staff and leaders of community health organizations in Ontario to respond to community concerns and share the importance of caring for people who use drugs.
This Stigma Training Guide was developed with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is implemented in Zambia, Ghana, and Tanzania with the aim of reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination in health facilities and amongst staff in health facilities.