Hello everyone,
The Women-Centered HIV Care Manitoba Sub-Hub will be at CAHR!
We are pleased to invite you to the CAHR 2026 ancillary event in Winnipeg "Advancing Women-Centered HIV Care in the Prairies"! Please see the attached poster and the sign-up link for more information.
Please share the attached poster widely with your networks and encourage them to register and attend!
Event details:
🗓 Date: Thursday, April 23rd 2026
🕐 Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm CT (breakfast served at 8:30am and lunch served at 12pm) 📍 Location: RBC Convention Centerhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/RBC+Convention+Centre+Winnipeg/@49.8890235,-97.1445429,589m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x52ea71564eaa1bb1:0x230331c90a346deb!8m2!3d49.8890235!4d-97.1445429!16s%2Fm%2F02qt5l8?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D, in the Millenium Suitehttps://www.wcc.mb.ca/spaces/millennium-suite/
🔗 Register at tinyurl.com/WCHCMBhttps://tinyurl.com/WCHCMB
Advancing Women-Centered HIV Care in the Prairies is a one-day, hybrid-format, action-focused gathering responding to the urgent and evolving realities of HIV affecting women in the Prairies. The Prairie provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan continue to experience the highest HIV rates in Canada, with women increasingly and disproportionately affected. Many women are navigating overlapping challenges including limited uptake of prevention tools such as PrEP, housing instability, substance use, and gaps in care during pregnancy and postpartum. Addressing these intersecting issues requires coordinated action across sectors - not just among HIV care providers. Hosted by the Manitoba Women-Centered HIV Care (WCHC) Sub-Hub, this event will convene experts in HIV, sex and gender, housing, harm reduction, perinatal care, and outreach care - alongside women with lived experience - to identify practical, scalable solutions in a Prairie context. The day will include a keynote address, a cross-sector panel, and structured roundtable sessions focused on four priority areas: · HIV care for women in rural, remote, and isolated areas
* Innovative harm reduction and housing initiatives * Expanding access to HIV PrEP for women * Improving HIV care in pregnancy and postpartum Participants will work collaboratively to generate concrete, actionable recommendations that will inform a post-event advocacy brief for provincial and regional decision-makers. If you are interested in strengthening coordinated, women-centered responses to HIV in the Prairies, your expertise is needed in this room, and we encourage you to register and join us! You will receive an email closer to the event with further details and the online access link.
Please feel free to reach out to our coordinator Vanessa (vanessa.schulz@umanitoba.camailto:vanessa.schulz@umanitoba.ca) if you have any questions.
We hope to see you there!
Vanessa Schulz
MSc Research Technician for the Public Health Agency of Canada Coordinator for the Women Centered HIV Care Manitoba Sub-Hub Co-Chair for the Manitoba Schools Science Symposium Planning Committee