The MSAFIRI Post Migration Health Project

You are invited to the MSAFIRI Knowledge Translation and Exchange (KTE) webinar series!

On behalf of Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC, the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention, the African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario, the MSAFIRI Post-Migration Health Project Research and KTE team and Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD), you are invited to participate in the MSAFIRI Knowledge Translation and Exchange (KTE) webinar series!

The "Understanding HIV Transmission in African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Communities Following Arrival in Canada Study" or MSAFIRI project was implemented between 2014 - 2017 with aim of shedding light on HIV acquisition in persons from ACB communities after their arrival in Canada. The findings of the project illustrates how and why ACB are acquiring HIV after they arrive in Canada when they are negative or when born in Canada.

Our final webinar will be held on Monday, May 14th from 12:00PM – 1:30PM EST. In this webinar we will engage with a panel of experts in the field, frontline workers and other service providers working with ACB communities, researchers, policymakers, and community members, in a thoughtful discussion on new, innovative strategies to reduce HIV acquisition post-migration in ACB communities in Canada.

We will be joined by the following panelists:

Abigail Kroch – Director of Data and Applied Science at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network

Denese Frans – Community Health Worker at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands (CHC)

Garfield Durrant – MSM Prevention Coordinator at the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention

(Black CAP).

Wangari Tharao – Director of Research at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands (CHC)

Wesley Oaks – Africans in Partnership Against AIDS (APAA)

Winston Husbands – Senior Scientist at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network

*Only registered participants will have access to the webinars

NOTE: Participants of the first webinar are automatically registered. If you are unable to attend the upcoming webinar please cancel your registration.