News & Views
Gay Zone’s 10th Anniversary
GayZone 10th anniversary: Looking back, Looking forward. On Monday October 15th, 2018, Folks gathered to celebrate 10 years of GayZone, Ottawa’s guys into guys health and wellness clinic. The event was held at Jean Pigott Hall, Ottawa City Hall. Check out some highlights below: Gay ZONE is a weekly HIV […]
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Sex Now Ottawa-Gatineau
Sex Now Ottawa-Gatineau “One prick can change the ban!” SexNow Outreach and Recruitment Schedule SexNow is the largest survey for guys into guys in Canada. The anonymous information collected helps better understand the health & wellness of guys into guys in our various communities. Who can participate in the Sex […]
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Behind The Scene Presents: Mindfulness
5 Things We Learned from Behind The Scene Presents: Mindfulness MAX Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital’s April edition of our monthly health and wellness talk series was on mindfulness. Sheila Robertson, MSW, RSW, and Tesia Bryski co-presented. Sheila is a social worker and maintains a personal mindfulness practice in the […]
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Behind The Scene: Meth and Sex
5 Things We Learned from Behind The Scene: Meth and Sex MAX Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, in collaboration with Kontak Project and ACCM Montréal, hosted Daniel Laroche for our March edition. Daniel is the Kontak Program Coordinator at AIDS Community Care Montréal. He spoke about his personal and […]
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5 Things We Learned at Behind The Scene: PrEP School!
5 Things We Learned at Behind The Scene: PrEP School! At our February edition, Dr. Paul MacPherson from the Ottawa Hospital and Derek Cassidy, MAX Ottawa’s Mental Health and Wellness Coordinator, presented information for guys into guys to understand what PrEP is, how it works, and where to get it. 1)PrEP, or […]
Read MoreMAX Ottawa Endorses the Undetectable = Untransmittable Consensus Statement
MAX (formerly the Ottawa Gay Men’s Wellness Initiative) seeks to address the unmet health needs of gay, bisexual, two-spirit, queer, and other guys who are into guys, whether cis or trans (GBT2Q), in the Ottawa area. We focus particularly on building resiliency, and creating a network of services able to […]
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