Team grant on social and structural violence and HIV among vulnerable populations

Gender inequities, violence and HIV infection continue to be unequally distributed among sex workers and people who use drugs (DU) both within Canada and globally. This application brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers, knowledge users and community partners to evaluate how policies and interventions produce and reproduce gender inequities, violence and HIV risk among sex workers and DU in Canada, and comparative international settings of Thailand, Uganda and India. With this team grant, we will develop a research and knowledge translation platform of conceptually linked studies to create an infrastructure for sharing, comparative analyses, and networking between researchers and knowledge users with the aim to optimize impact on policy and programs. We also aim to foster a training and mentoring environment on gender, violence and HIV. By bringing together this unique and diverse team, we seek to build synergies and address these gaps in knowledge, policy, and intervention, and thereby improve gender inequities, violence and HIV risk among vulnerable populations in Canada and globally.