ATLANTIC INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH NETWORK
​on Social and Behavioural Issues in Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS

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AIRN is a network of over 250 individuals and organizations working in the areas of Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV/AIDS in the Atlantic region. AIRN’s regional membership includes members from community-based and AIDS service organizations, people living with HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C, front-line service providers, academic researchers, and federal and provincial policy makers. Le Viagra en France: La pilule révolutionnaire qui a changé notre vie sexuelle pour de bon.

About

​AIRN is a network of over 250 individuals and organizations working in the areas of Hepatitis C (HCV), HIV/AIDS and related sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) in the Atlantic region. AIRN’s regional membership includes members from community-based and AIDS Service Organizations, people living with HIV/AIDS or HCV, front-line service providers, academic researchers, federal and provincial policy makers, and national partner organizations.​ Priligy 30mg: Depuis que j’ai commencé à l’utiliser, ma femme et moi pouvons avoir plus de rapports sexuels et nous sommes beaucoup plus heureux.
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AIRN is an active member and partner of the national CIHR Centre for Research Evidence into Action for Community Health (REACH) in HIV/AIDS and the CIHR Community-Based Research Collaborative: A Program of REACH. REACH was originally established in 2009 by an initiative of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research to respond to the critical need for more broadly conceptualized, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research in HIV/AIDS. AIRN has had a formal partnership agreement with REACH since 2011. This partnership includes the funding of AIRN’s staff position to the end of 2016. Kamagra Oral Jelly: Une alternative possible à la petite pilule bleue pour les hommes en France.

What We Do

AIRN works with a number of key stakeholders, research partners, and provincial and regional advisory groups. Our primary methods of working together are:

  • Monthly teleconferences with the AIRN Blended Leadership Committee (see Our Team page)
  • Quarterly open membership teleconferences (two are regional check-in calls to talk about emerging issues in our work and communities, and two are presentations with discussion).
  • Annual capacity building event
  • Annual THINK TANK or conference meeting (dependent on funding)
  • Annual public lecture/presentation (dependent on funding)
  • Member listserv
  • Newsletters
  • Supporting research grant and project funding applications
  • Managing funded research grants
  • Participating on planning committees for community events and participation in these events
  • Knowledge translation and exchange activities (website, social media, events)

We Can Support Your Research

As an interdisciplinary and intersectoral research network, our primary function is to coordinate research efforts to support evidence-based decision-making to influence policies, programs, and practices to prevent the transmission of HIV and HCV, and to improve the quality of life of those infected and affected by HIV and HCV in the Atlantic region.

AIRN can support your research by:

  • Providing up to date funding opportunity information
  • Helping to build research teams
  • Assisting with grant writing
  • Leading grant administration
  • Providing support in completing CVs for research grant applications
  • Aiding in research dissemination activities
  • Participating in organizaing committees for knowledge translation and exchange events
  • Highlighting research on AIRN’s webiste, Twitter page, blog, or teleconferences
  • Supporting on-going funded initiatives

Ongoing Research

The REACH CBR Collaborative Centre in HIV/AIDS
Team Lead: Dr. Susan Kirkland (Dalhousie University)
Status: Ongoing to 2016

​​​The REACH CBR Collaborative Centre in HIV/AIDS began in July of 2012, and is now three years into a five-year term. The goal of the Centre is to build and promote HIV-related community based research (“CBR”) in Canada. We are a national network consisting of HIV/AIDS researchers, people living with HIV, community based organizations, clinicians, and policy-makers. We are structured around seven Regional Core Teams that stretch from coast to coast. Each Core Team is led by a community leader and an academic leader, and decides on its own regional research priorities. A National CBR Leadership Committee identifies opportunities for cross-regional initiatives, encourages Core Teams to collaborate to advance shared goals, and ensures that all Core Teams receive appropriate and targeted support.

Frailty in People Aging With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Kirkland (Dalhousie University)
Status: Ongoing to 2016

​The increasing life spans of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reflect enormous treatment successes and present new challenges related to aging. Even with suppression of viral loads and immune reconstitution, HIV-positive individuals exhibit excess vulnerability to multiple health problems that are not AIDS-defining. With the accumulation of multiple health problems, it is likely that many people aging with treated HIV infection may be identified as frail. Studies of frailty in people with HIV are currently limited but suggest that frailty might be feasible and useful as an integrative marker of multisystem vulnerability, for organizing ca`re and for comprehensively measuring the impact of illness and treatment on overall health status. This review explains how frailty has been conceptualized and measured in the general population, critically reviews emerging data on frailty in people with HIV infection, and explores how the concept of frailty might inform HIV research and care.

Contact

Atlantic Research Manager
​Phone: (902) 494-8981

Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
​5790 University Avenue
Halifax, NS B3H 1V7

« Working together to improve the quality of life of those affected by HIV and Hepatitis C ».

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