Thomas Haig

Université de Sherbrooke | UdeS · Department of Community Health Sciences

La consommation de substances chez les hommes gais, bisexuels ou ayant des relations sexuelles avec d’autres hommes (gbHSH) constitue un des déterminants des relations sexuelles à risque d’infections transmissibles sexuellement, incluant le VIH. Cet article vise (1) à documenter la prévalence et les tendances temporelles de la consommation d’alcool...

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) have adapted their sexual practices over the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic based on available data and knowledge about HIV. This study sought to identify and compare patterns in condom use among gay, bisexual, and other MSM who were tested for HIV at a community-based testing site in Montre...

This chapter addresses the challenge of integrating approaches to health that focus on vulnerabilities alongside asset-based approaches within community-based research. A theoretical analysis, supported by examples from practical experience, points to the ways in which the two approaches are complementary and the need to avoid instrumentalist or te...

In this article, we highlight first-person accounts of living with HIV/AIDS that have appeared in daily newspapers in Quebec and raise a number of questions about how these accounts are received – who is listening and how? Recent Canadian criminal trials of HIV-positive people who are alleged to have knowingly exposed sexual partners to HIV serve a...

Résumé À partir des pratiques de l’organisme communautaire Action Séro Zéro, cet article propose une réflexion sur le travail de proximité à l’égard d’enjeux reliés à la vie privée. Sont prises en considération des conceptions de la prévention du VIH qui mettent en lumière les risques d’ingérence dans la vie privée. Le contexte des milieux de socia...

Improving interpersonal communication skills has become an increasingly important aspect of HIV prevention strategies, based on the notion that this will contribute to more consistent condom use. The emergence of “barebacking” (intentionally unprotected casual sex among gay men) has foregrounded the limitations of such strategies. Efforts to encour...

A study on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) undertaken by the Correctional Service of Canada in 2001 demonstrated that MMT has a positive impact on release outcome and on institutional behaviour. Now, a new study undertaken in an Australian prison system has demonstrated that MMT also reduces drug use and injection in prisons. The implications...

The Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) recently released a discussion paper on prison-based needle exchange or distribution programs, expressing concern "about the gaps in service provision and neglect for the health and human rights of injecting and illicit drug users within the Australian prison systems."

The 1st Annual Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights were awarded to the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and to Dr. Wan Yanhai, a Chinese physician and activist. The international attention and media coverage of the awards was heightened by the fact that the Chinese government had detained Dr. Wan for disclosing information about unsa...

This dissertation is a case study drawn from ethnographic research undertaken at Action Séro Zéro , a community-based health promotion organization in Montréal providing HIV prevention services to gay, bisexual and transgender men. The research focuses on how people working at this organization use conversation as a health promotion strategy. The u...