About CATIE (Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange)
CATIE is a national, not-for-profit charity committed to championing and supporting innovation and excellence in knowledge exchange for the prevention of HIV transmission, and the care, treatment and support of people with HIV. CATIE does this by:
- collaborating with and building the capacity of front-line organizations to use knowledge effectively to respond to the HIV epidemic;
- supporting and connecting individuals and organizations to develop, synthesize, share and apply HIV knowledge;
- acting as a central contact point for the flow of comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, timely and accessible HIV information and community-based knowledge.
CATIE provides confidential, non-judgmental and knowledge-informed services. CATIE is fully committed to the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA) principles in all aspects of the organization from service development and delivery to governance. CATIE works from a harm reduction perspective and incorporates an understanding of the determinants of health into all its programs and services.
In recent years, hepatitis C has emerged as an important health challenge in Canada. A growing number of people living with HIV, in particular people who inject drugs, have become co-infected with hepatitis C. Service providers across the country are struggling to develop an effective response to hepatitis C, but are often hampered by a lack of accurate, up-to-date and accessible information. As a result, CATIE has been funded to develop a variety of prevention resources.
About the CATIE Hepatitis C Program
The CATIE Hepatitis C Program has produced a comprehensive and varied toolkit of information and prevention resource materials for use by service providers and community agencies. The toolkit consists of two kinds of materials:
- An original series of colourful easy-to-read print materials produced in multiple formats and organized around eight key messages, and
- Updated versions of a range of existing materials targeting specific populations, reissued in partnership with the originating organizations.
To support the Toolkit’s print resources and to provide an on-going information resource for Canadians, CATIE has also launched this website dedicated to hepatitis C information.
Support for this project is provided by the Hepatitis C Secretariat of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
For more information on who we are and what we do, please visit www.catie.ca.
