Our friends are great
We’re fortunate to have supportive partners that span the communities we work with. These partners help us fulfill our mission of strengthening the health and wellbeing of gay men in Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and beyond:
Our Nurses
HIM Health Centres are staffed by Registered Nurses from our partners at the Vancouver Coastal Health STOP HIV team and the Fraser Health Authority STOP HIV team. Without their clinical expertise, our work would not be possible.
Our Community Partners
The following organizations partner with HIM through a variety of different ways, including collaborating with us on programs, investing in HIM, and assisting us engage with gay men in our communities:
Aboriginal Front Door Society
ACT (AIDS Committee of Toronto)
AIDS Vancouver
City of Vancouver Community-Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health (CBRC)
Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia
Fraser Health Authority
Fraser Valley Youth Society
Gilead Sciences Canada
Gordon Neighbourhood House GSHI (Gender and Sexual Health Initiative)
Living in Community
Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families
MAC AIDS Foundation
MAX (Ottawa)
Merck Canada
New West Pride PACE Society
PeerNet BC/BC LGBTQI2SHealth Equity Roundtable
Positive Living BC
Public Health Agency of Canada Public Safety Canada
Qmunity
REACH Community Health Centre
REZO (Montreal)
Rhodes Wellness College
SAFER (Suicide Attempt Follow-up, Education and Research program)
SWAN (Supporting Women’s Alternatives Network)
SWUAV Vancouver (Sex Workers United Against Violence Society)
Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver Pride Society
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Vancouver Suicide Prevention Roundtable
WISH Drop-In Centre YouthCO
Research Partners
HIM values scientific research, using an evidence-based approach to engage with our communities. We believe in mutually beneficial research relationships, and partner with the following on research initiatives:
AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV / AIDS (BCCFE)
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
Cambridge University
CATIE
Community-Based Research Centre in Gay Men’s Health (CBRC)
Community Health Assessment of Men who Purchase & Sell Sex (CHAPS)
COMPASS
GPS: Finding the Sex You Want
Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance
Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (GSHI)
Gilead Sciences
INSERM: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
MAX Ottawa
ManCount
McGill University
Mobilise
Momentum Health Study
Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Oxford University Positive Deviance
Public Health Agency of Canada
The Resonance Project
RÉZO
Ryerson University
Simon Fraser University
Sex Power Agency Consent Environment Safety (SPACES)
The Still Here Project
University of British Columbia
University Health Network
Université de Montréal
Université du Québec à Montréal
Université de Sherbrooke
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
University of Windsor
Vancouver Coastal Health
HIM’s Research Partnerships
HIM takes part in research projects that benefit our communities. These projects gather data on the unique needs of our communities that help inform our work or that of similar organizations, or which help us demonstrate the importance and impact of gay men’s health work to the communities we belong to and serve as well as funders.
Often, HIM partners with researchers as a recruiting partner in person and/or through digital media. HIM regularly contributes its community expertise to ensure that research projects are conducted in a way that is respectful of and beneficial to our communities.
It’s important to us that we are accountable to the communities who are asked to contribute to research projects. We also want our communities and research partners to see the impact of these research project by sharing findings, reports, events, and other products that come out of the research projects on which we collaborate.
Below is a growing but by no means comprehensive list of some of the outputs created by research projects in which HIM- and our communities- have participated:
CHAPS (Community Health Assessment of Men Who Purchase and Sell Sex)
News story: Study finds male sex workers felt safer advertising online than in the streets (2016)
Academic article: Argento, E., Taylor, M., Jollimore, J., Taylor, C., Jennex, J., Krusi, A., & Shannon, K. (2018). The Loss of Boystown and Transition to Online Sex Work: Strategies and Barriers to Increase Safety Among Men Sex Workers and Clients of Men. American Journal of Men’s Health, 1994–2005.
The DuDHS Trial: PrEP for syphilis and HIV
Website: Recruitment and Information Website
ENGAGE (Momentum II)
Journal articles: Summaries
Conference presentations: Poster presentations
Conference presentations: Oral presentations
Investigayting the Experiences of Young gbMSM Accessing PrEP
Conference presentation: Innovative Approaches of Combination Prevention in the Age of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis YouTube recording
Mancount Study
Report: Mancount Sizes-up the Gaps Report (2010)
The RESONANCE Project
Report: Emerging Biomedical Discourses on HIV Among Gay Men and their Service Providers (2016)
Sex Now (2014-2015)
Report: Gay Generations: Life Course and Gay Men’s Health (2016)
Reports and local advocacy tools: Regional Health Authorities Progress Cards (2018)
SPACES: A Sex Industry Study
Report: Recommendations from the Off-Street Sex Industry in Vancouver (2016)
Interested in partnering with HIM on your research project?
Download, read, fill out, and submit our research engagement and collaboration application package.
Our Sponsors
Our community sponsors help us make the greatest impact with our limited resources. From our Condom Packaging Mondays, to fundraising, to partnering with HIM on various events and projects, the following are a sampling of local businesses, community groups, bars and lounges that support HIM: 1181, Celebrities Night Club, Dogwood Monarchist Society, Little Sisters, MN Events (RUFF), Numbers Cabaret, Odyssey Bar & Nightclub, Pumpjack Pub, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Abbey of the Long Cedar Canoe, Vancouver Front Runners, WESA (West End Slowpitch Association), XY-YVR.
Professional volunteers
Make no mistake — we appreciate the work of every single volunteer, no matter their skill set. We also acknowledge those folks with special skill sets who enrich our professional services. These highly-trained individuals have offered their services free-of-charge to HIM, and it makes a real difference in Vancouver’s gay community.
