SHAWNA Newsletter

SHAWNA Newsletter Summer 2024

SHAWNA surveys end February 28th, 2025!
We want to share the bittersweet news that we will soon be ending data collection with the amazing participants/community experts
who have been a part of SHAWNA. The next follow-up survey, which will happen between September 1, 2024 and February 28, 2025, will be the final survey that we do in SHAWNA.

Monthly drop-in is still on! First Thursday of each month, 10:30am-2pm

SHAWNA Newsletter Winter 2024

Updates on SHAWNA’s digital storytelling project “My Story, My Way”. Also, new infographics based on the latest SHAWNA research, Positive Women’s Advisory Board updates, Dr. Kathleen Deering’s CGSHE Speaker Series talk and more!

SHAWNA Newsletter Summer 2023

“My Story, My Way”: a new qualitative arts-based using digital storytelling methods. Also, a celebration of Love Positive Women, trainees showcasing their research and new infographics by the SHAWNA project.

SHAWNA Newsletter Winter 2023

Featuring SHAWNA team updates, new research on sexual health and HIV/AIDS, supports for women living with HIV, SHAWNA’s upcoming digital storytelling project and more!

SHAWNA Newsletter Summer 2022

Are you a woman living with HIV? Join our support group! Also: updates on our SHWANA Positive Women Advisory, Wise Practices & Skills Building, new research and staff highlights.

SHAWNA Newsletter Winter 2022

New community engagement and outreach workers, operations updates, recent publications on women’s experiences of HIV-related stigma, SHAWNA’s Positive Women’s Advisory Board and HIV Criminalization Reform Consultation!

SHAWNA Newsletter Summer 2021

Office re-opening, staff updates, including new team members, new photovoice project with Indigenous Peer Researchers, food insecurity study findings and SHAWNA at the Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research!

SHAWNA Newsletter Winter 2021

SHAWNA receives five more years of funding, community outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic, important changes to PharmaNet, new research findings, including why some people living with HIV need additional supports to take ART, and team updates (spoiler: there’s a new baby!)