Notes from the Inside:Addressing Barriers to Gay Poz Men’s

Self-Actualization

1Toronto People With AIDS Foundation

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Presented by: Mikiki1

Contributors: Murray Jose1, Rick Lees1

Poz Prevention: a context

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Poz Prevention: PWA Program

• Peer-Led Outreach & Education Team• Bathhouse Outreach• Online Outreach• Monthly Sexual Health Info Sessions• Service Provider Training• 2 Advisory Bodies

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Impacting the Personal

• Utilizing a Peer Model• Creation of Safe Space in the face of Stigma,

Criminalization• Implications in lives of individual peers:

building PHA Sexual Health Advocates

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Impacting the Personal

• Peer Perspective• “... and one guy during outreach came up and

asked ‘you’re really poz?’ and he was just so amazed that I could be out to talking about it.”

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Impacting Service Delivery

• Ideas Forum• Poz Prevention Advisory Committee• Knowledge Transfer• Service Provider Training

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Network

• Creating New Dialogue• Shift from Programmatic to Philosophical

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Acknowledgments

• PHAC – ACAP

• IF members:ACAS ACTBlack-CAP Hassle Free ClinicToronto Public Health Toronto HIV Network

• PPAC members:ACAS ACTBlack-CAP Hassle Free Clinic

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