In the world we live in today, a holistic view of health and wellbeing must include mental and emotional health alongside physical health. To provide client-centered healthcare that is tailored to the unique needs of queer men, clinicians and healthcare providers should know how queerness intersects with various facets of men's health. This factsheet takes an intersectional lens and looks at different factors such as HIV status, trauma, housing, race, age, ability, class, body image, substance use, etc. and makes suggestions for coping as well as improvements to the healthcare system.
Updated: Ontario’s Mpox Awareness Campaign Evaluation: Final Report
This updated report documents an externally conducted process evaluation of Ontario’s MPOX Awareness Campaign. The evaluation was commissioned by the Gay Mens’ Sexual Health Alliance (GMSH) on behalf of the provincial MPOX campaign partnership between the Infectious Diseases Policy and Programs (IDPP) and the Immunization Policy and Programs (IPP) units at the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario (CMOH), the HIV-AIDS/ Hep-C Program (AIDS Bureau) at Ontario Ministry of Health, the GMSH provincial office and participating GMSH alliance member representatives.
It includes background to, and purpose of the evaluation, key evaluation questions guiding the overall evaluation, methodology used, and key insights synthesized across key evaluation questions under three main topics, namely: the perceived value and quality of the collaborative experience for stakeholders, access to, and quality of GMSH supports and resources, and outcomes related to system partners’ work related to MPOX, and public awareness, knowledge and behaviours related to MPOX.