Dr. Deering and her team have received an NIH/NIMH R01 grant for $2.5million (2020-2025) to support a trauma-informed HIV care project with Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS: Longitudinal Women’s Needs Assessment (SHAWNA)
Dr. Kathleen Deering, Dr. Kate Shannon, and team at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity (CGHSE) have received an NIH/NIMH funds to support a new study with the SHAWNA Project (Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS: Longitudinal Women’s Needs Assessment), a cohort study of women living with HIV (WLWH) in Metro Vancouver in partnership with Afro-Canadian Positive Network of BC (ACPNET), Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN), YouthCo HIV and Hep C Society, and Oak Tree Clinic (BC Women’s). The new 5-year study is called “Social and structural violence and HIV care continuum outcomes: developingt a trauma-informed HIV care intervention among WLWH” (2021-2026). The study aims to understand how experiences of violence are a barrier to health services access for cisgender and transgender WLWH including along the HIV care continuum, to identify the social support and health care practice characteristics that can mitigate these relationships, and to elucidate how trauma-informed practice can support WLWH, who as a group global evidence suggests have experienced high levels of interpersonal and structural violence.
Dr. Deering is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Medicine, Research Scientist at the CGSHE and MSFHR Scholar; Dr. Shannon is a Professor in the Division of Social Medicine, Executive Director of the CGSHE, and Canada Research Chair in Gender Equity, Sexual Health & Global Policy.
For more information on the SHAWNA project, please visit the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity