![]() Recipient: Prince Albert Métis Women's Association Inc. Project: Sexual and Behavioural Health Promotion and Barrier Reduction Initiative Project Details: This project will build the capacity of peers, knowledge keepers and service providers in delivering culturally safe Indigenous led sexual health care with a focus on testing. Project: Mino Pimatisiwin: Indigenous Led STBBI Care Made Sovereign These events will create a stigma-free, culturally safe environment for people who use drugs to access health care and social services. Project Details: The purpose of this project is to improve access to effective STBBI prevention, testing, treatment, and ongoing care and support for people who use drugs by facilitating peer-led community based STBBI events. Recipient: Manitoba Harm Reduction Network Inc. Project: "By Us, For Us" Peer-led STBBI testing Innovation in Northern Manitoba Project Details: This project aims to provide culturally appropriate and engaging prevention interventions on STBBI to young people in the community who may lack connections to formal education systems. Recipient: Sexual Health Centre Saskatoon Inc. Project: SSHOUT CARES (Culturally Appropriate, Radically Engaging on STBBIs) This will be achieved through the development, implementation and evaluation of a tele-mentorship and support program with and for peers so that they may better provide culturally safe, de-stigmatizing, and community-based support to people at risk and/or living with HIV/HCV in their communities. Project Details: This project will strengthen the capacities of HIV and hepatitis C peer support workers, with a focus on underserved communities (e.g., rural/remote, Indigenous and/or inner-city areas). Recipient: University of Saskatchewan (Pewaseskwan- Indigenous Wellness Research Group) Project: Bringing Our Fires Together: A Provincial Tele-Mentorship Network for Peer Support Workers Through the CAF, a total of 10 projects in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are receiving $10,798,274 in funding. HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund Projects funded by the HIV and Hepatitis C Community Action Fund (CAF) and Harm Reduction Fund (HRF) take an integrated approach to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of prevention initiatives for these infections, along with other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections. The contribution of community-based organizations is central to Canada's ability to achieve these targets. ![]() The Government of Canada is committed to working with partners and stakeholders across the country in support of the global goal of ending viral hepatitis, HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) as public health threats by 2030. The contribution of community-based organizations is central to Canada’s ability to achieve these targets. ![]()
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