Advancing HIV and STI prevention: Are strengths-based and sexual pleasure focused approaches to sexual health missing pieces for?
Dr. Carmen Logie | March 15, 2023 12-1pm ET
Learning objectives: (1) Differentiate strengths-based approaches to classical approaches in advancing stigma reduction and HIV and STI prevention. (2) Integrate sexual pleasure-focused approaches into HIV and STI prevention programming. (3) Apply the principles of sexual health enabling environments for the prevention and management of STBBIs.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Carmen Logie, MSW PhD
Dr. Carmen Logie, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations, is a Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Adjunct Professor at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, & Health, Adjunct Scientist at Women’s College Hospital, and Research Scientist at the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity. Her research program advances understanding of, and develops interventions to address, stigma associated with HIV and other health disparities. Dr. Logie has been awarded funding from the CIHR, SSHRC, IDRC, CFI, and Grand Challenges Canada to lead global research focused on sexual health, stigma, and rights with a focus on HIV prevention and care. Her current research focuses on HIV and STI prevention, testing and care cascades in Uganda, Kenya, and Canada with people with HIV, refugee and displaced youth, LGBTQ+ communities, Indigenous youth, and people at the intersection of these identities. Her latest book, “Working with Excluded Populations in HIV: Hard to Reach or Out of Sight?” was published in 2021 by Springer. She has a podcast you can find everywhere podcasts are, Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma, with more than 15,000 downloads.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Dr. Marc Steben, MD CCFP FCFP DESS
As a family physician, Dr. Marc Steben concentrates his clinical interest on sexual health, mainly chronic genital diseases. Research, development and publications field include therapeutic approaches to chronic genital pain, prevention and treatment of genital herpes and development of HPV prophylactic vaccine. Marc is President of IUSTI-Canada and Chair of the 2025 World STI Congress of the ISSTDR and IUSTI-World.
