Another year, another CAHR!

The Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) held its annual conference this year from April 30th – May 3rd at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Co-chaired by Dr. Trevor Hart (Director of the HIV Prevention Lab) and Dr. Darrell Tan, this year’s theme of “Combining Strengths in the Struggle Against HIV” was well-represented by research within the four conference tracks – basic sciences, clinical sciences, epidemiology and public health sciences, and social sciences.

HIV Prevention Lab members showed up in force, with numerous grad students, post-docs, research staff, and volunteers taking in all of the exciting HIV research happening across Canada – in addition to presenting a bit of their own work. We presented six posters and one oral presentation at this year’s conference and all of the abstracts are published in a supplemental edition of the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology which can be found here.

Hats off the conference organizers and we’ll see you next year at CAHR 2016 in Winnipeg!

List of conference presentations:

1. Ablona, A., Noor, S. W., Vernon, J. R. G., & Hart, T. A. (2015, April). What’s the ‘risk’? Associations between depression, substance use and sexual risk behaviors among HIV-negative gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Toronto. Poster presented at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Toronto, ON.
2. Coleman, T. A., Hart, T. A., Tulloch, T. G., Sivagnanasunderam, B., Billimoria, H., & Deshapriya, P. (2015, April). HIV and STI prevention knowledge in older Sri Lankan youth. Poster presented at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Toronto, ON.
3. Coleman, T. A., Hart, T. A., Tulloch, T. G., Sivagnanasunderam, B., Billimoria, H., & Deshapriya, P. (2015, April). Sexual behaviour in older Sri Lankan youth: Findings from the YOU Study. Poster presented at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Toronto, ON.
4. Hart, T. A., Coleman, T. A., Tulloch, T. G., Sivagnanasunderam, B., Billimoria, H., & Deshapriya, P. (2015, April). Gender-based sexual violence in a sample of older Sri Lankan youth: Findings from the YOU Study Survey. Poster presented at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Toronto, ON.
5. Hart, T. A., Noor, S. W., Adam, B., Brennan, D. J., Husbands, W.,Cattaneo, J., Rivas, C., & Gardner, S. (2015, April).Moving beyond risk factors: The role of protective factors in reduced condomless anal sex (CAS) among HIV-negative gay and bisexual men. Poster presented at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Toronto, ON.
6. Noor, S. W., Adam, B., Brennan, D. J., Gardner, S., & Hart, T. A. (2015, April). Scenes as micro-cultures: Use of Latent Class Analysis approach to examine heterogeneity among gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men frequenting multiple scenes in Toronto, Canada. Oral presentation at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Toronto, ON.
7. Tulloch, T. G., Noor, S. W., Brennan, D. J., Husbands, W., & Hart, T. A. (2015, April). Emotion regulation strategies are associated with sexual risk behaviours among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Poster presented at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research, Toronto, ON.