Grant: Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research - Supplementary Funding

This Not Business as Usual (NBAU) project is both timely and necessary, as it will catalyze a much-needed shift in how HIV is addressed in relation to Black communities in Canada. The Not Business as Usual project will fill critical knowledge gaps by tackling existing inequities in HIV outcomes, quality of life, and navigation across service delivery, policy, and research ecosystems for Black people. Through participation in NBAU, Black people living with HIV ( PLWH), researchers, community leaders, organizational representatives, and trainees will (1) Develop a community-informed HIV research and policy strategy to guide evidence-based research and decision-making (2) Strengthen capacity for community-engaged HIV research, education, knowledge mobilization, and knowledge translation with and for Black communities (3) Generate critical, community-based understandings of Black HIV equity and well-being (4) Identify and disseminate best practices for Black community-led HIV research interventions and community-academic partnerships (5) Create a national strategy to support advocacy efforts directed at policymakers, researchers, and funders, including the development of surveillance systems that better meet the needs of Black researchers and community-based program specialists and (6) Increase the research output for Black HIV reserchers and community partners in Canada.