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FY25IMPACT REPORT

INSIDETHISREPORT

CANFAR BY THE NUMBERS

FY25: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

RESEARCH CYCLE 32

CAHR-CANFAR AWARDS

WORLD AIDS DAY

BLOOR STREET ENTERTAINS 28

AIDSBEAT 28

CAN YOU DO LUNCH?

GROWTH OF LEGACY PROJECT

DONORS (FY25)

SILENT AUCTION PARTNERS

EVENT CO-CHAIRS

EVENT COMMITTEES

LEADERSHIP TRANSITION

CANFAR

& CONSULTANTS

CANFARFY25 BYTHENUMBERS

1,616,900

TOTALINVESTEDINRESEARCH,NATIONALAWARENESSPROGRAMS& STRATEGICIMPLEMENTATIONPROJECTS

FUNDSRAISEDATCANFAREVENTS $2,369,000

2 GUINNESSWORLD RECORDSBROKEN

55 EVENTCO-CHAIRS& COMMITTEEMEMBERS

21 SELF-PRODUCED EVENTS

16,073

PEOPLESERVEDAT THECANFARFUNDEDRAPID TESTINGLABATHQ TORONTOSINCE LAUNCH

$1.7 MILLION RECORDBREAKINGAMOUNT RAISEDATBSE28

2.53 MILLION

CANADIANYOUTHREACHEDTHROUGHSEXFLUENTPROGRAMMING

$500,000

DESIGNATEDFUNDSFORSTRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATIONGRANTS

4 OURHEALTHBOXES LAUNCHEDINPRIORITY COMMUNITIES

12 CANADIAN RESEARCHERSGIVEN GRANTSORAWARDS NEWBOARD MEMBERS

FY25:THEYEARIN REVIEW

CANFAR CEO Alex Filiatrault attends the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, Germany

CANFAR announces Crystal Waters as Bloor Street Entertains headliner.

Sexfluent launches its new Sexfluent Squad members to help reach priority youth across Canada digitally

CANFAR Legacy Project Toronto hosts a pre-BSE styling event at Gotstyle.

The BSE committee assembled at Fairmont Royal York for the annual awareness photoshoot.

CANFAR Legacy Project hosts its Montreal Pride event at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth. CANFAR Legacy Project hosts its Capital Pride brunch & dance party in partnership with Invest Ottawa.

CANFAR hosts its semi-annual in-person National Ambassador gathering at Ambassador Matt Hyams home.

Thom Browne hosts an exclusive shopping event in support of CANFAR at their Yorkdale location.

CANFAR hosts the first Can You Do Lunch? Vancouver at TELUS Garden with co-chairs Christie Garofalo & Jay McCauley.

CANFAR launches its annual national World AIDS Day campaign focused on revitalizing the red ribbon campaign.

CANFAR hosts its Patrons Circle reception at the private home of the Gotliebs.

FY25:THEYEARIN REVIEW

CANFAR attends CAAN’s annual parliamentary breakfast to mark Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week.

announces new

members Al Ramsay, Sven Byl, Chanakya Sethi, and Candice Sinclair.

FY25:THEYEARIN REVIEW

CANFAR Legacy Project Montreal hosts its Love In event at Hotel William Gray.

CANFAR Legacy Project Ottawa hosts its Love In event at La Nouvelle Scènes Gilles Dejardins downtown

Sexfluent partners with SExT to deliver youth education and awareness in the Algonquins of the Barrière Lake

CANFAR presents the annual CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in HIV/AIDS Awards at the 34th CAHR conference in Halifax

CANFAR launches its second Our Healthbox with funding from BMO at Dixon Hall in downtown Toronto

CANFAR launches its first Our Healthbox with funding from BMO at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

CANFAR Legacy Project Toronto hosts its spring event at Le Germain Hotel Toronto Mercer.

CANFAR hosts the 13th annual Can You Do Lunch? with a panel discussing HIV & Aging moderated by Valerie Pringle.

CANFAR hosts its annual AIDSBEAT concert at El Mocambo, featuring bands from Toronto’s top Bay Street firms.

CANFAR attends the launch of the annual LCBO Love Pairs With Everything campaign for which CANFAR is a beneficiary.

CANFAR Legacy Project Toronto hosts its annual Pride Brunch & March with our own Grand Marshall, Gigi Gorgeous.

Bloor Street Entertains is awarded Canada’s Most Outstanding Event at the annual Canadian Event Awards

LETTERFROMTHE CHAIR

HIV is still here Diagnoses are increasing, while funding is decreasing We’re less than five years away from the 2030 target of eradicating HIV/AIDS as a public health threat – and at the rate we’re going, it’s likely Canada will miss this threshold; unless something bold is done, and fast

For nearly four decades we’ve invested in groundbreaking Canadian research that has changed HIV science and led to incredible discoveries that have changed the prognosis for people living with HIV.

We helped develop highly-active antiretroviral therapy in the mid-90s, funded studies that pushed PrEP through Health Canada approval in the 2010s, and even helped get HIV self-test kits approved for public use in 2020.

Over the past several year’s, we’ve sought to enhance our impact and to invest in underfunded areas that are critical to ending this epidemic, whose first case in Canada was discovered in March 1982

This year marked a significant shift for CANFAR with the introduction of our Strategic Implementation Fund, the outcome of our National Strategic Task Force that was convened throughout 2023 and 2024

Implementation research is an evolving field that explores how realworld evidence can inform and improve the adoption of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies particularly within healthcare and public health settings.

For CANFAR, this means working with community partners across the country to get HIV testing to those who need it most through the adoption of GeneXpert testing instruments These rapid and mobile testing machines can be deployed nimbly and remove the burden of access for under-resourced populations

CHAIRANDYPRINGLEAND NATIONALSPOKESPERSON VALERIEPRINGLE

It also means installing more Our Healthboxes In 2025, CANFAR funded four machines Our Healthboxes are free, accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and distribute HIV self-test kits . and other sexual health supplies anonymously.

The benefits of these programs cannot be overstated: with GeneXpert testing, we can screen and diagnose new cases of HIV in 90 minutes, and subsequently connect people to antiretroviral medications within less than 24 hours. With HIV self-test kits, a screening diagnosis can be had in less than 2 minutes; and follow-up care is just a phone call away

We have the tools today to end the HIV epidemic in Canada. But the resources aren’t where we need them to be. CANFAR is following the lead of the World Health Organization and helping Canada decentralize HIV testing so we can bring these services directly into the communities that need them most

As we ramp up our investments in implementation science, we hope to have an even greater impact on our domestic epidemic by filling gaps in health inequities for priority populations Alongside continuing to fund Canada’s brilliant researchers as they search for a cure, and increasing national awareness for key demographics, CANFAR is acting swiftly and boldly in coordination with our community partners to provide innovative solutions that reach people in culturallysensitive safe spaces so they can access the healthcare services they need without stigma or discrimination.

ANDREW PRINGLE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CANFAR

BOARDOFDIRECTORS

ANDREWPRINGLE

CM, Chair, RP Investment Advisors

PATTIMACNICOL

Vice-Principal, Administration & Innovation, Upper Canada College

PATRICIAOLASKER

Partner, Davies Ward Phillip & Vineberg LLP

CHARLESARMSTRONG

Chair, Armstrong Fluid Technology

DR.NOTISHAMASSAQUOI

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto & Founding Director of the Black Health Equity Lab

DR.STANLEYREAD

Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto

DR.MICHAELGRANT

Associate Dean BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland

EXECUTIVECOMMITTEE

CHANAKYASETHI

Partner, Davies Ward Phillip & Vineburg LLP

CASEYANTOLAK

Vice President, Scotiabank

WILLIAMFLANAGAN

President, Vice Chancellor, University of Alberta

MARIEHENEIN

Senior Partner, Henein Hutchison LLP

SYLVIA MANTELLA

Vice President Marketing, Sponsorship, and Philanthropy, Mantella Corporation

JOHN PRATO

Deputy Chair & Executive Director, TD Securities

ROBERTHOPPENHEIM

Head Brand Strategy, Creative & Communications, Hoppenheim & Co

JEFFREYKROEKER

Partner, Civis Law LLP

STEPHENB.LEWIS

Chair, Stephen Lewis Foundation

TONYPEDARI,FCPA

Partner, Risk Assurance Services, PwC

SVENBYL

Chief AI Officer & VP, Enterprise Technology

ALRAMSAY

Vice President-Head 2SLGBTQ+ & Black Customer Segments, TD Bank Group

CANDICESINCLAIR

Entrepreneur and Business Leader, fundraising for BOOST, SickKids, CANFAR, & National Ballet of Canada

JAIMEWATT

Executive Chairman, Navigator Limited

LEEANNEWELDKOSTOPOLOUS

Sales Representative, Royal LePage Real Estate

TREVORSTRATTON

Coordinator, International Indigenous Working Group on HIV & AIDS at CAAN

PAUL NOBLE

Senior Vice-President & Chief Legal Officer, Enterprise Legal and Corporate Secretary

MAXIMEST-PIERRE

President, Gestion Maxime St-Pierre Inc

TOMRANSON

Client Associate, CIBC Wood Gundy

SCIENTIFICADVISORY COMMITTEE

MICHAELGRANT,PhD-Co-Chair

Professor, Immunology, Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland

PAULSANDSTROM,PhD-Co-Chair

Director, National HIV & Retrovirology Laboratories, JC Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre, PHAC

LISABARRETT,MD,PhD,FRCPC

Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Uni.

ALANCOCHRANE,PhD

Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

HÉLÈNECÔTÉ,PhD

Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia

DANIELGRACE,MA,PhD

Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Health; Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

CHRISTINAGUZZO,PhD

Associate Professor of Virology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough

TREVORHART,PhD,C.PSYCH

Ontario HIV Treatment Network Applied HIV Research Chair in Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health, Professor and Director, HIV Prevention Lab, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University

CARMENLOGIE,PhD

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia

MICHAELHAWKES,MD,PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta

CHENLIANG,PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University; Interim Director, McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University

MONALOUTFY,MD,MPH,FRCPC

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Scientist, Women’s College Research Institute; Staff Physician, Women’s College Hospital

RENÉEMASCHING

Indigenous Community-based researcher, Seven Directions Consulting

ADRIENNEMEYERS,PhD

Director, Laboratory Integration Office of Population and Public Health, Indigenous Services Canada

RALPHPANTOPHLET,PhD

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

STANLEYREAD,MD,PhD,FRCPC

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children; Consultant HIV/AIDS Family Centered Care Program Division for Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto

RESEARCHCYCLE32

WE’VE INVESTED OVER $26 MILLION AND AWARDED OVER 575 GRANTS TO HIV/AIDS RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT HAVE LED TO TREMENDOUS BREAKTHROUGHS IN HIV PREVENTION, TESTING, TREATMENT, STIGMA, AND THE SEARCH FOR A CURE. WE SOLICIT & ADVANCE IDEAS FOR INNOVATIVE PROJECTS AND PRAGMATIC SOLUTIONS FROM RESEARCHERS, COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN THE TWO. WE HAVE ADVANCED HIV KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE, AND ARE DETERMINED TO FILL THE GENDER AND RACE GAPS IN HIV RESEARCH.

CANFAR’S FY25 INVESTMENT: $290,000

$50,000 BUNTINGCHRISTOPHERMEMORIAL RESEARCHGRANT

HIV & SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION AMONG GAY, BI & OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

DR. BERTRAND LEBOUCHÉ

Sexual dysfunctions are more common among men living with HIV than men living without HIV. In current research on sexual dysfunction, only expert voices are often heard. Dr. Lebouché and team know we need to hear directly from patients.

Dr. Lebouché, PhD student Francesco Avallone, and the research team aim to conduct 30 semi-structured interviews with gbMSM living with HIV in Montreal who have experienced sexual dysfunction This project will recruit participants through HIV clinics, community groups, magazines, and online platforms

Dr Lebouché and Mr Avallone will gather recommendations from participants to create a patient-centered model of sexual dysfunction care

$40,000 RESEARCHINNOVATIONGRANT

DISCOVERING WHY THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN’T GET RID OF HIV?

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

DR. MARIO OSTROWSKI

HIV stays in some of our immune system cells even with antiretroviral therapy, making it nearly impossible to eliminate completely from the body. Dr. Ostrowski and his team posit the body could get rid of HIV reservoirs with our immune ‘killer cells’. But there’s a catch: Killer cells in people living with HIV and on antiretroviral treatment are often not as effective as killer cells found in people not living with the virus This phenomena is called ‘T Cell exhaustion’

Dr Ostrowski and his team will analyze cells in a 3D culture system that mimics the lymph nodes in the body and track the performance of killer cells If we can get to the heart of why these cells are exhausted, we can try to improve killer cell functionality for better immune responses

$40,000 RESEARCHINNOVATIONGRANT

HIV & MENOPAUSE: ADDRESSING THE GENDER GAP IN IMMUNE RESEARCH PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR DR. JULIE LAJOIE

The ‘gender data gap’ refers to the lack of adequate, accurate, and comprehensive data on women and gender non-conforming folks, leading to underrepresentation and skewed perspectives in data collection, analysis, and decision-making.

Women experience hormonal changes for most of their lives – but especially in menopause. Menopause is a natural process that happens to women as they age This study aims to understand how aging as a woman living with HIV impacts the immune response Our immune system may be less responsive or more tired, which can increase inflammation This study will determine if menopause changes how T cells are activated and respond to viral infections Changes in their activation profile may increase susceptibility to HIV

RESEARCHCYCLE32

A SILENT EPIDEMIC: LONELINESS, SEXUAL HEALTH & SUBSTANCE USE

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

DR. SHAYNA SKAKOON-SPARLING

Black sexual minority men are often sidelined in HIV prevention research.

Dr. Skakoon-Sparling and co-lead Garfield Durrant want to ensure their research takes a participatory action approach, which will allow them to work closely with community members to determine what resources, interventions, and supports are needed for providing culturally safe care. This research project will be conducted through an online survey with 200 Black immigrant gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men The results of this survey will help the research team to use community input in highlighting and exploring gaps in sexual health prevention for African, Caribbean and Black newcomers in Canada to inform systemic changes and improve sexual health outcomes

$40,000 RESEARCHINNOVATIONGRANT

WHAT ARE HIV CLUSTERS & HOW CAN THEY INFORM PREVENTION STRATEGIES?

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

DR. BLUMA BRENNER

By examining patterns in HIV genetic data, we can better understand how the virus moves through populations– which can help inform better and more targeted prevention and testing strategies.

Dr. Brenner and her team believe that studying the genetic makeup of HIV can give us better insight into how HIV spreads, beyond traditional methods.

This approach combines genetic analysis with patient demographics and behaviours to identify factors driving the spread of HIV among MSM and racialized communities in Quebec

Phylogenetic network analyses will map the growth trajectories of HIV subtype epidemics that are occur across Quebec

$40,000 RESEARCHINNOVATIONGRANT

DISCOVERING WHY THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN’T GET RID OF HIV?

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

DR. AMY GILLGRASS

Dr. Gillgrass and her research team are currently investigating improving the Shock and Kill approach for HIV cure using a technique that has been successfully used in cancer treatment. This approach combines our bodies’ special natural killer (NK) cells, with drugs that can reanimate dormant HIV. First, drugs called latencyreversing agents are used to reactivate latent HIV hiding in immune cells (the ‘shock’) Then, the reactivated cells can be targeted and killed by the body's immune system or anti-HIV drugs (‘the kill’) This study aims to gather evidence about the potential use of a novel kill agent in the HIV 'Shock and Kill' cure method, and based on its results, will hopefully allow Dr Gillgrass and other researchers to expand the scope of applying this method to finding a cure for HIV

$40,000 RESEARCHINNOVATIONGRANT

UNLOCKING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO HIV’S IMMUNE EVASION

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

DR. ANDREW MOULAND

HIV-1's capsid is a protective shell that helps the virus avoid being detected by the immune system. Dr. Mouland and team will test if the HIV-1 capsid avoids detection by the immune system’s cGAS sensor – a protein that detects foreign DNA and triggers an immune response.

The team will examine whether HIV-1 infection suppresses cGAS activation using cell-based tests They will then study how HIV-1’s protective shell, the immune system, and viral genetic material (cDNA) interact after infection Using live-cell imaging techniques, the team can confirm these interactions This could help researchers understand how to enhance immune responses in people living with HIV and lead to making HIV more recognizable by the immune system

CAHRCANFAR AWARDS

The CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Awards are bestowed annually to mid-career researchers who, while at the prime of their careers, have achieved a track record of excellence and demonstrated a commitment to improving the lives of those living with HIV or at risk of acquiring the virus.

Awarded since 2017, the recipients are honoured each year at the opening ceremony of the CAHR Conference (this past year from May 1 to 4, 2025 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) to highlight the achievements of investigators in all pillars of HIV research

THIS YEAR’S RECIPIENTS INCLUDE:

BASIC SCIENCES

PAUL MCLAREN (UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA)

CLINICAL SCIENCES

MELANIE MURRAY (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA)

EPIDEMIOLOGY-PUBLIC HEALTH

LAWRENCE MBUAGBAW (MCMASTER UNIVERSITY) SOCIAL SCIENCES

AMAYA PEREZ-BRUMER (DALLA LANA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH)

COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH RENEE MASCHING

CANFAR’S FY25 INVESTMENT: $70,000

THE 2025 CTN+-CANFAR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN NOVEMBER 2025.

POSTDOC AWARD

The CTN+ Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards Program was established to empower earlycareer researchers, providing them with invaluable opportunities to expand their knowledge, and craft their own research programs and trials. The fellowships provide career support and are renewable

for up to two years. The CANFAR/CTN Postdoctoral Fellowship Award offers $70,000 per fellow, with an additional travel allowance of up to $5,000 to support research-related expenses. Calls for applications were open through February 2025.

STRATEGICIMPLEMENTATIONFUND

CANFAR’s strategic implementation program was developed from our Bold Actions national strategic plan, which aims to increase access to HIV testing and care, and fund implementation research to end the epidemic This program aims to support community-based models and programs that improve healthcare accessibility for priority populations.

Implementation research is an evolving field that explores how real-world evidence can inform and improve the adoption of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies particularly within healthcare and public health settings. Its primary goal is to enhance the uptake of research findings by identifying and addressing the barriers and facilitators that affect implementation.

By developing effective strategies to support the integration of proven approaches into routine practice, implementation research helps bridge the

gap between research and real-world applications Ultimately, this leads to improved health outcomes and greater well-being at both individual and population levels

To date, CANFAR has funded the Express Testing Laboratory at HQ Toronto to facilitate same-day STBBI results, and funded four Our Healthboxes, a national initiative in collaboration with REACH NEXUS.

We have also supported Indigenous-centred initiatives at the Dr. Peter Centre and CBRC in Vancouver. The newest implementation program will be the GeneXpert rapid and mobile-testing instruments and cartridges to eligible community-based organizations. The GeneXpert system shifts access to HIV testing and care from the traditional laboratory setting and directs it to where people are; facilitating same-day diagnosis and/or monitoring of HIV

GENEXPERTRAPID &MOBILETESTING

PROJECT PARTNER

The GeneXpert system is a rapid and mobile testing instrument that uses individual cartridges to test for a variety of infectious diseases, including HIV It is a compact, on-demand diagnostic platform that operates as a closed system polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine – widely regarded as the gold standard in molecular diagnostics. The GeneXpert machine can provide accurate and efficient testing in just 90 minutes or less. This means that community-based organizations can use this system to test, diagnose, and link patients to HIV treatment and care ondemand and on-site.

The GeneXpert system is compact and easily transportable, making it possible to bring testing closer to communities. It shifts access to HIV testing and care from the traditional laboratory setting to meeting people where they are; facilitating sameday diagnosis and/or monitoring of HIV

Benefits of the GeneXpert system include:

Reliable, decentralized testing bringing diagnostics closer to patients and communities that need it most Rapid turnaround times delivering results in 90 min or less (same-day diagnosis), closing the gap between diagnosis and treatment, and reducing the risk of further transmission

Flexible deployment does not require specialized lab staff and can be operated by trained community personnel

Multi-disease testing capability can provide a range of tests on a single platform, which supports broader access to care

Community-driven care allow testing to be delivered by trusted local providers, increasing comfort, trust and participation

Promoting HIV prevention supporting education, harm reduction, and engagement through community-based approaches

CANFAR began the process of working with the Public Health Agency of Canada to obtain 28 GeneXpert machines with the goal of mobilizing these units among key community partner organizations across Canada over the next 18 to 24 months

CANFAR’S FY25 INVESTMENT: $125,000

THE GENEXPERT MACHINE IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A DESKTOP PRINTER.

OUR FIRST UNITS WERE DEPLOYED TO WOMEN’S HEALTH IN WOMEN’S HANDS IN DOWNTOWN TORONTO, AND WILL BE IMPLEMENTED FALL 2025.

OURHEALTHBOX

OUR HEALTHBOX IS A SMART VENDING MACHINE THAT PROVIDES FREE AND ANONYMOUS ACCESS TO HIV SELF-TEST KITS, SEXUAL HEALTH SUPPLIES, AND SAFE INJECTION EQUIPMENT TO REDUCE HIV TRANSMISSIONS. IT’S A PROJECT LED BY REACH NEXUS AND THE MAP CENTRE FOR URBAN HEALTH SOLUTIONS AT ST. MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL, WITH SUPPORT FROM VARIOUS FUNDERS INCLUDING CANFAR.

Each Our Healthbox machine collects data in real time to ensure we are reaching the people who are the most underserved – and providing them with access to what they need without facing judgement, racism, or stigma. As part of CANFAR’s Bold Actions strategy, Our Healthbox is an implementation research program that addresses the health gaps faced by Indigenous peoples, African, Caribbean and Black people, racialized women, and people who use substances and inject drugs

With this initiative, we are helping to make vital resources available to everyone, including HIV self-test kits, no matter someone's circumstances. Our Healthbox will help normalize conversations around sexual health and reduce stigma in our communities

Our Healthbox falls under implementation science, which is the scientific study of how to best promote the adoption and integration of evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies into routine healthcare and public health settings to improve population health outcomes

COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR CANFAR’S OUR HEALTHBOXES:

With funding from BMO: St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba Dixon Hall, Toronto, Ontario

With funding from LCBO: North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unity, North Bay, Ontario Women’s Health in Women’s Hands, Toronto, Ontario

OUR HEALTHBOX DISPENSES FREE HIV SELFTEST KITS, CONDOMS AND SEXUAL HEALTH SUPPLIES, LIFE-SAVING NALOXONE KITS, AND HARM REDUCTION TOOLS.

CULTUREAS MEDICINEPROGRAM

ALTENBERG, COO, AND SCOTT ELLIOTT, CEO, DR. PETER CENTRE

URBAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FACE NUMEROUS CHALLENGES IN ACCESSING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SERVICES, PARTICULARLY IF THEY ARE NON-STATUS OR DO NOT HAVE BAND MEMBERSHIP, WHICH OFTEN NECESSITATES THEM ACCESSING SERVICES AT NONINDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE DR. PETER CENTRE. MANY NONINDIGENOUS URBAN FRONTLINE HEALTH PROVIDERS ARE ASKING FOR SUPPORT IN ADAPTING THEIR SERVICES FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SEEKING CARE.

This project builds on the Dr Peter Centre's Indigenous Wellness Program, which currently supports over 150 Indigenous participants-approximately onethird of Day Health clients While not an Indigenous organization, the Centre is one of Vancouver's largest Indigenous-serving agencies and plays a unique role in modelling culturally safe HIV care.

Through this grant, CANFAR has made it possible to explore why the Centre’s culturally safe model works, how it fosters trust in healthcare settings, and how its Balanced Wellness Approach can be documented, evaluated, and adapted by non-Indigenous organizations across Canada contributing to a more integrated and culturally grounded model of care.

The Culture as Medicine initiative grew out of CANFAR’s national task force, where the Dr Peter Centre joined leaders from across the country to co-design a new generation of implementation projects

building national capacity The current project explores why the Centre's culturally safe model works, how it fosters trust in healthcare systems, and how its approachnow formally named the Balanced Wellness Approach-can be documented, evaluated, and adapted by non-Indigenous organizations The grant from CANFAR is supporting:

Salary of Program Manager

Honoraria and fees for Elders, Wellness Workers, Artists and Clinicians

Development of Participant-Informed Cultural Workshops

Staff Cultural Competency Training

Planning and Evaluation

Knowledge-sharing Convenings/Travel

CANFAR’S FY25 INVESTMENT: $60,000

JASON

MEDICINEBUNDLE PROGRAM

The Medicine Bundle Program is an Indigenous-led HIV and STBBI prevention and health promotion project within the Two-Spirit Program at the CommunityBased Research Centre (CBRC) The project was developed by and for Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA+ Indigenous Peoples, integrating Indigenous knowledge, medicines, and culture in combination with Western biomedical sexual health knowledge and tools, including HIV selftesting kits.

As a community-led, evidence-based, and culturally informed intervention working to address HIV knowledge, access, and support needs among Indigenous and TwoSpirit Peoples and communities across Canada, the Medicine Bundle is closely aligned with CANFAR’s strategic funding priorities

To support this program, CANFAR funded a national series of in-person sharing circles, organized in collaboration with the CBRC’s

five local Indigenous community partner organizations, in Spring & Summer 2025

The overarching goal of this project is to partner with these five local community organizations who will be supported in designing, delivering, and evaluating the impact of the Medicine Bundle project within their local community and/or region. What is learned from these sharing circles, as well as the local adaptation process more generally, will be used to create a guide for communities and organizations in Canada to develop their own communitybased programs and interventions.

CANFAR’S FY25 INVESTMENT: $125,000

THE TWO-SPIRIT PROGRAM MEDICINE BUNDLE CONTAINS AN HIV SELF-TEST KIT AND INDIGENOUS MEDICINES, SUCH AS: SAGE SWEETGRASS TOBACCO CEDAR LAVENDER

LABRADOR TEA BEAR GREASE DEVIL’S CLUB SALVE

RAPIDTESTINGAT HQTORONTO

IN JULY 2022, CANFAR FUNDED THE EXPRESS TESTING LABORATORY AT HQ TORONTO FOR THREE YEARS – AN INVESTMENT OF $500,000.

HQ Toronto (790 Bay St ) offers tailored sexual health, mental health, substance use, and social support services for gay and bisexual men, trans and AMAB non-binary people.

The lab provides confirmatory tests for Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STBBIs), including HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphillis; with guaranteed same-day (24-hour) results. This innovative technology, which provides accurate, rapid, laboratory-grade test results, means that people who are travelling from outside the city can receive care and be linked to treatment or prevention in the same day

The CANFAR Express Testing Laboratory represents a total cumulative healthcare system savings to-date of $1,099,875 It also fills critical gaps in our healthcare system Since the lab opened, 2,784 individuals who were uninsured or precariously insured (no OHIP or IFH, 16 85% of visitors) accessed care at HQ FROM JULY 2022 UNTIL APRIL 2025,

SEXFLUENT (YOUTHAWARENESS)

Sexfluent is CANFAR’s national youth digital resource dedicated to ending Canada’s HIV epidemic by equipping youth ages 15-25 with the knowledge and tools necessary to prevent HIV Sexfluent is transforming the conversation around sexual health to be free of judgment and shame, so that youth can be empowered to embark on their own journeys of selfacceptance and exploring pleasure.

Over the last year, 6 Sexfluent Squad members, representing diverse youth from the 2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous, and racialized/ newcomer communities, as well as youth who have experiences with substance use, served as peer educators for Sexfluent’s digital platform, amplifying our health education messages online. Together, they have a combined audience of 2.5 million followers Through these ongoing partnerships, Sexfluent continues to deliver a youth-led and community-driven content strategy that creates strong digital engagement to connect youth to local health resources

IN THE LAST YEAR ALONE, SEXFLUENT HAS:

Reached more than 4,785 at-risk youth through in-person educational engagement across 25 events in 11 cities, 5 provinces and 1 territory. Distributed over 7,090 safer sex supplies (i e condoms, dentals dams, and lubes) and 141 HIV self-test kits, thereby expanding access to HIV prevention and testing

Grown our online audience by 63% and increased our digital engagement by 33%, thereby enhancing access to HIV and sexual health information online.

As of June 2025, Sexfluent reached a combined online audience of 2,526,853 across our primary educational platform, Sexfluent.ca, and our social media channels. Between July 2024 and June 2025, 41,000 new users accessed our website a 9.1% increase from the previous year demonstrating our growing impact in expanding access to HIV knowledge.

Gia Metric (Vancouver, BC)

Chelazon Leroux (originally Saskatoon, SK)

Owen Unruh (Montreal, QC)

Kairyn Potts (Toronto, ON)

Taha Arshad (Toronto, ON)

Haley Robinson (Ottawa, ON)

SEXFLUENT (YOUTHAWARENESS)

Since launching in 2022, an average of 95.8% of users have rated our Sexual Health pages as helpful, with key pages like Prevention and Harm Reduction holding a 100% positive user rating, demonstrating the ongoing relevance and educational impact of our health resource In FY25, new tools such as a search bar and resource referral links were added to the home page and each subject area landing page, respectively, to enhance user engagement, learning and connections to care.

Between July 2024 and June 2025, Sexfluent received 56,208 organic engagements (i.e. likes, comments, shares, saves) on our educational posts, a 5.1% increase from the year prior.

This demonstrates that our content continues to resonate with youth today Users are taking the time to read through our posts and share our content, highlighting the relevance of our messages

Sexfluent now holds the highest engagement rate among our peer organizations. This establishes Sexfluent as a leader in online youth-driven sexual health education and prevention, further reinforcing the quality and impact of our work.

Demand for Sexfluent’s educational materials grew this year, with Sexfluent developing 16 new educational print resources for educators, community health workers and youth workers across Canada

Between July 2024 and June 2025, CANFAR’s resource centre distributed 7,528 educational print materials across 42 cities in 11 provinces and 4 territories a 3% increase from the previous year

Additionally, in December of 2024, Sexfluent launched 12 new educational postcards in partnership with CATIE

Over the next two years, Sexfluent will focus on investing more in analytics, collecting testimonials, and connecting youth to care.

KNOWLEDG MOBILIZAT

STARTING HOME FIRES

This national Indigenous-focused HIV campaign centres Indigenous ways of knowing and storytelling to promote HIVrelated wellness and self-determination Visioned by an Indigenous leadership committee, which includes Indigenous People Living with HIV/AIDS (IPHA), and supported by CATIE, CANFAR and Gilead Sciences Canada, this national campaign will include a digital social media and radio strategy and feature a curated online collection of relevant community-based HIV resources. These components will ensure Indigenous peoples across Canada have access to reliable and culturally appropriate information to make informed decisions about their HIV-related health, to support their autonomy and selfdetermination in HIV health-related decision-making, and to support equitable access to HIV knowledge and messaging that is meaningful, appropriate and resonates with Indigenous peoples

PROJECT PARTNER

In November of 2024, CATIE & CANFAR held a two-day national stakeholder meeting convening 16 Black HIV leaders from across Canada to discuss how to reenvision Black-led HIV knowledge mobilization to create more meaningful impact in Black communities affected by HIV The session aimed to generate a collective vision for what “Black-led knowledge mobilization” (BLKM) means, and what is required to initiate, sustain, and resource it effectively.

The group agreed that Canada will not reach its 2030 UNAIDS goals if Black communities remain sidelined. Nine principles of BLKM were identified through this process, and seven critical shifts (representing areas of meaningful change) were generated as requirements to achieve a just future

CATIE & CANFAR will reconvene engaged members of the group in 2026 to mobilize one of the key areas identified: education and information

CANFAR’SNA AMBASS

WORLDAIDSDAY 2024

PROJECT COST: $50,000

THE RETURN OF THE RED RIBBON CAMPAIGN: ACTING UP BY GOING GRASSROOTS. ONCE AGAIN WITH THE SUPPORT OF GILEAD SCIENCES CANADA, AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OVER 76 COMMUNITY PARTNERS, WE WENT BACK TO THE ROOTS OF HIV/AIDS ADVOCACY AND REANIMATED THE RED RIBBON CAMPAIGN. WE BROUGHT BACK THE CANS, THE RIBBONMAKING, AND THE ACTIVISM POSTERS THAT ARE SYNONYMOUS WITH THE RED RIBBON CAMPAIGN OF THE LATE 80S AND EARLY 90S.

WITH SUPPORT FROM

The campaign was shared across Canada by 69 community partners We provided a comprehensive toolkit that included physical and digital collateral to make participation seamless Our campaign and its companion activations generated over 15 million media and social media impressions, and included coverage from outlets like CTV, CityNews, CBC News, Healthing, Toronto Star, 680 News, and Newstalk 1010.

THE CAMPAIGN’S KEY MESSAGES WERE:

HIV IS STILL HERE. HIV IS A VIRUS. STIGMA IS A DISEASE.

WHEN HIV IS UNDETECTABLE, IT’S UNTRANSMITTABLE.

HIV TESTING IS FOR EVERYONE. WE CAN ONLY END HIV IF WE PUT PEOPLE FIRST.

MP ROB OLIPHANT MAKES AIDS AWARENESS RIBBONS DURING OUR WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT ON NOVEMBER 12, 2024.

BREAKINGWORLD RECORDS

ON NOVEMBER 12, A PIECE OF HISTORY WAS MADE. CANFAR & GILEAD, ALONGSIDE COMMUNITY ALLIES, OFFICIALLY BROKE THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS TITLE FOR THE MOST AWARENESS RIBBONS MADE IN AN HOUR BY A TEAM! OVER 150 PEOPLE MADE 11,255 RED RIBBONS FOR HIV AND AIDS AWARENESS AHEAD OF WORLD AIDS DAY (TODAY), DOUBLING THE PREVIOUS RECORD! THE NEXT DAY, WE BROKE THE RECORD FOR THE WORLD’S LARGEST AWARENESS RIBBON MOSAIC MADE OF RIBBONS.

These milestones were part of our #MyRedRibbon campaign for World AIDS Day, with funding from Gilead

The campaign spotlighted the iconic AIDS awareness ribbon and helped raise national awareness that HIV is still here

We broke the first record on Tuesday, November 12 at The 519 Community Centre, with Billy Newton-Davis acting as official judge.

Then on Wednesday, November 13, we unveiled the World’s Largest Awareness Ribbon Mosaic made entirely of awareness ribbons – over 20,000 hand-stapled to a wooden platform in downtown Ottawa.

This is what community action looks like, and beyond the milestone, it's a call for more collective awareness about HIV and AIDS, and its impact on marginalized and vulnerable communities, including 2SLGBTQ+ people

THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS EVENT FOR MOST AWARENESS RIBBONS MADE IN AN HOUR TOOK PLACE AT TORONTO’S 519 COMMUNITY CENTRE.

BREAKINGWORLD RECORDS

OTTAWA’S CENTRETOWN BIA DONATED SNIDER PLAZA TO HOST THE WORLD’S LARGEST AWARENESS RIBBON MADE OF AWARENESS RIBBONS

BLOORSTREET ENTERTAINS28

CANFAR hosted our 28th annual Bloor Street Entertains on Thursday, November 28, 2024, which was a record success –raising over $1 7 million for CANFAR’s strategic investments

Co-chaired again by Janice Fricker, Candice Sinclair, Michael Liebrock and Honorary Chair Sylvia Mantella, Bloor Street Entertains 28 went on to receive ‘Canada’s Most Outstanding Event’ at the Canadian Event Awards 2025.

IT’S LATE EVENING ON NOVEMBER 28. OVER 1,000 GUESTS ARE DINING AT 26 VENUES IN BLOOR-YORKVILLE. THE HOSTS INTRODUCE CANFAR’S NATIONAL AMBASSADORS WHO EACH SHARE THEIR STORIES OF LIVING WITH OR BEING IMPACTED BY HIV – AND THEIR HOPES FOR THE END OF THE EPIDEMIC IN THIS GENERATION. ROUNDS OF APPLAUSE. THE CLINKING OF CUTLERY AND PLATES. THE SHUFFLING OF HEELS ALONG BLOOR STREET. THE PRELUDE TO $1.7 MILLION RAISED...

Special entertainment by dance music icon Crystal Waters and in-demand DJ Frank Walker helped make the After Party the most in-demand ticket of Toronto’s events season. Holt Renfrew hosted a stunning style-bot motion capture for guests on the VIP 6th floor; while photographer Nancy Kim took stunning shots amid a royalworthy floral backdrop

We had 1,113 guests at 26 venues (including some hidden gems), who collectively brought about our most successful fundraiser to date

BLOORST. ENTERTAINS

RED CARPET PARTNER

ILLUMINATION PARTNERS

LOUNGE PARTNERS

ENTERTAINMENT PARTNER

SPIRITS PARTNERS

EVENT PARTNER

VENUE PARTNER

TRANSPORTATION PARTNER

WINE PARTNER

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

AIDSBEAT28

ANOTHER INCREDIBLE AIDSBEAT AT THE EL MOCAMBO FOR THE BOOKS!

THE 28TH EDITION ON FRIDAY, JUNE 6 RAISED OVER $182,000 FOR OUR MISSION TO END HIV IN CANADA BY FUNDING NATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS THAT FOCUS ON PRIORITY POPULATIONS.

SIX BANDS. OVER 50 SONGS. 600 GUESTS. A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY RIVERSE. LIVE VOTING FOR YOUR FAVE BAND. THE COOLEST DOOR PRIZES.

CANFAR RADIO ROCK IS ONE WE’LL BE TALKING ABOUT FOR A LONG TIME!

Co-chairs Christopher Guerreiro (Norton Rose Fulbright) and Mike Chalut (El Mocambo) put on another incredible show!

The bands included CODA Conduct, Vaughan Halen, Sound Prediction, The Insecurities, Screaming Legals, and Blind Trust

WE SEND A HUGE CONGRATS TO VAUGHAN HALEN, WHO TOOK HOME THE COVETED PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD.

The energy was unmatched from the voting for People’s Choice Award, to the CANFAR national ambassadors in on-stage interviews, to the incredible performances & epic door prizes, this night delivered everything we love about CANFAR Radio Rock

CANYOUDOLUNCH?

AT OVER $325,000 RAISED, THE 13TH EDITION OF CAN YOU DO LUNCH? WAS OUR MOST SUCCESSFUL TO DATE!

CO-CHAIRS ANDREA ANDERS, GALLANT LAW, AND AMANDA GOTLIEB LED THE CAN YOU DO LUNCH? COMMITTEE TO ANOTHER RECORD-BREAKING YEAR, 25-YEAR CANFAR NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON VALERIE PRINGLE MODERATED A THOUGHTFUL PANEL ON HIV & AGING, BILLY NEWTONDAVIS AND JOEY NICEFORO PERFORMED A STUNNING RENDITION OF ELTON JOHN’S ‘DON’T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME’, AND WE RAISED OVER $12,000 IN THE BALLOON POP RAFFLE TO SUPPORT OUR PROCUREMENT OF HIV SELFTEST KITS.

With almost 450 people in the Aria ballroom at Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, the hush of the crowd was palpable as Valerie interviewed Billy Newton-Davis about his four decades living with HIV after his diagnosis in 1986.

Everyone listened intently as Randy Davis (no relation to Billy) recalled his own diagnosis story, and how he found strength, empowerment and community by advocating for other people living with HIV in the ten years since Dr Alice Zhabokritsky highlighted how conditions that often come with aging – hypertension, bone disorders, diabetes, immune system decline, kidney disease – arise more rapidly and more frequently among people aging with HIV. Mike Chalut and the always fabulous Jeanne Beker helped us raise over $30,000 with the live auction.

Special thanks to our lead partners including TPH Canada, Mantella Corporation, Labatt Breweries, TD, LCBO – Spirit of Sustainability, Studio B Home, BMO, Four Seasons Hotel Toronto; community partners P. Austin Family Foundation, Bloor-Yorkville, and ESP Inc.; floral and decor partners including Atriani, San Remo Florist, and Chair Decor; event table partners Amazon, BLG Law, The Colonnade on Bloor, Holt Renfrew and The Agency (Toronto West).

CANYOUDOLUNCH? VANCOUVER

WE TOOK CAN YOU DO LUNCH? OUT WEST ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2024 –GATHERING MORE THAN 80 OF VANCOUVER’S BUSINESS LEADERS, PHILANTHROPISTS AND COMMUNITY BUILDERS TOGETHER AT TELUS GARDEN TO LEARN ABOUT OUR INVESTMENTS IN BC-BASED RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS. CO-CHAIRED BY LONGTIME CANFAR SUPPORTERS JAY MCCAULEY & CHRISTIE GAROFALO, CYDL VANCOUVER RAISED OVER $80,000 FOR OUR MISSION!

CANFAR National Spokesperson Muluba Habanyama led a panel featuring Patrick McDougall of the Dr Peter Centre and Michael Kwag of the CBRC

Can You Do Lunch? Vancouver helps us expand our investments in BC to continue to fund HIV researchers who have consistently led the charge in new innovations, so we can help to scale their best practices across Canada and finally end the HIV epidemic in this generation.

Since 1996, CANFAR has invested over $1.7 million into research projects in British Columbia. These research projects have helped to transform the landscape of HIV care not only in Canada but also internationally.

We are so incredibly grateful to Christie & David Garofalo & the McCauley Family for leading the charge in support of this fundraising endeavour and for bringing our mission loudly to the West Coast

GROWTHOFTHE LEGACYPROJECT

THE CANFAR LEGACY PROJECT IS A MEMBERSHIP-BASED EDUCATIONAL EVENT SERIES WITH CHAPTERS IN TORONTO, MONTREAL AND OTTAWA. THE LEGACY PROJECT HOSTS 3 TO 4 EVENTS ANNUALLY IN EACH CITY THAT BRING TOGETHER OUR LEGACY PROJECT DONORS AND MEMBERS OF THE BROADER CANFAR COMMUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT TOPICS RELEVANT TO THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE OF HIV/AIDS IN CANADA. IN FY25, THE LEGACY PROJECT RAISED OVER $199,000 FOR OUR MISSION.

FY26 EVENTS

AUG. 8, 2024

MONTREAL PRIDE LEGACY

PROJECT EVENT AT FAIRMONT QUEEN ELIZABETH

AUG. 17, 2024

CAPITAL PRIDE BRUNCH & MARCH AT MARGERITA

SEPT. 11, 2025

SIP & STYLE AT GOTSTYLE TORONTO

NOV. 14, 2025

LEGACY OTTAWA WORLD RECORD RECEPTION AT METCALFE HOTEL

DEC. 17, 2025 MONTREAL HOLIDAY GATHERING AT JACOPO RESTAURANT

FEB. 25, 2025

LOVE IN TORONTO AT HARRIET’S ROOFTOP

MARCH 7, 2025

LOVE IN DINNER MONTREAL AT HOTEL WILLIAM GRAY

MARCH 18, 2025

LOVE IN AT LA NOUVELLE SCÈNE GILLES DEJARDINS

APRIL 10, 2025

SPRING EVENT AT LE GERMAIN HOTEL TORONTO MERCER

JUNE 29, 2025

PRIDE BRUNCH & MARCH WITH GIGI GORGEOUS AT ANNDORE HOUSE TORONTO 31

GROWTHOFTHE LEGACYPROJECT

SPEAKERS AND GUESTS THROUGHOUT OUR FY25 LEGACY PROJECT EVENTS INCLUDED:

CANFAR National Ambassadors Joey Arrigo, Matt Hyams, Justin Anantawan, Myles Sexton

Representatives from CANFAR sponsors including ViiV, Gowling WLG, TD, and Merck

Special appearances by Gigi Gorgeous, RALPH, Tika the Iggy

Speeches from CBC journalist Ash Abraham, LGBTQIA+ pharmacist Emmanuel Thibodeau, and Resurrection podcast’s Dane Stewart

DONORS(FY25)

$300,000+

Liquor Control Board of Ontario

$100,000

Bank of Montreal

Labatt Breweries of Canada

TD Bank Group

The Estate of Bonnie Stevens

The P. Austin Family Foundation

$75,000+

Mantella Corporation

$50,000+

The Willie & Mildred Fleischer

Charitable Foundation

Canada Life Assurance Company

Gilead Sciences Canada

Anonymous

Nicola Wealth Managemet Ltd.

Amazon.com.ca ULC

Michael & Libby Goldgrub

Foundation

$25,000+

Benefaction

Corby Spirit and Wine Limited

PMA Canada

Anonymous

Two mutts incorporated

ViiV Healthcare ULC

Merck Canada Inc

The Ranson Family Foundation

Charles Pachter

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

LLP

Clench House Foundation

Gowling WLG Canada LLP

The Moody’s Foundation

Ferrari Express Inc

Holt Renfrew

Lycos Energy Inc

Moez & Marissa Kassam

Foundation

Andrew Pringle

PurposeMed Inc

Rogers Communications Canada Inc

Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc

Stronach Consulting Corporation

Trevor M. Born Medicine

Professional Corp.

$20,000+

Brookfield Partners Foundation

Christian Dior Inc

The Slaight Family Foundation

Vonna Bitove

The Earle and Janice O'Born

Family Foundation

Brunello Cucinelli Canada LTD

The Lily Street Foundation

$10,000+

The Calgary Foundation

Puig Canada Inc, 206366

RP Investment Advisors LP

The Rob Stovel Foundation

Celine Canada Inc

Studio B Home

Michael Liebrock

Ann Layton

First Capital Realty Inc.

Andrea Anders Inc.

JARAGON INC

Tamara Bahry

Tom Dara

Tony Pedari

Haywood Securities Inc

Torkin Manes LLP

Kevork Kechichian

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

TRADING CANADA

Anonymous

Davide Palumbo Professional Corp

Fengate Capital

Kaelen Haworth

Intelliware Development Inc

La Fondation Emmanuelle

Gattuso

McCain Capital Partners

Park Hyatt Toronto

S A Armstrong Limited

The Sprott Foundation

Tiffany & Co

Heather Tobin

Anita Marshall

Maxime St-Pierre

Jonathan Hicks

Tristan Michela

THOM BROWNE CANADA LTD

Mine & Yours

Kulin Matchhar

Bulgari Canada

David & Christie Garofalo

Gestion Maxime St-Pierre Inc

Marrisa Kassam

Moez Kassam

Janice O'Born

SAINT LAURENT CANADA

BOUTIQUES

The Don and Joan Walker Family

DONORS(FY25)

$5,000+

Ferragamo USA Inc

Gary Slaight

Hugh McLean

Eric Lombardi

Naman Budhdeo

James Molloy

Bernadette Morra

Chris Weld Kostopoulos

Leeanne Weld Kostopoulos

Graham Smith

RBC Wealth Management

Alex Filiatrault

Feel-Good Partners Inc

Kroeker Law Professional

Corporation

Cheryl Muldoon

Lily Li

Pierre Pettigrew

Janice L. Fricker

Estate of Lawrence J. Gitterman

Harris Fricker

Valerie Mano

ESTEE LAUDER Companies

Canada

Jonathan Anders

Andrea Anders

Four Seasons Hotel Toronto

Mindy Budhdeo

Baker McKenzie LLP

Daniel Schlaepfer

Cyrille Girard

Christian Vermast

Christopher Robertson Law

Professional Corporation

Covell and Edwina Foundation

Rimowa

Peter Vondracek

RBC Foundation

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Curatus

Ken Emerson

Zukerman Family Foundation

Genevieve Enterprice Corporation

LorenaHarito

Michael Higgins

Ink Entertainment

Jackman Foundation

Karim Kanji

Nicole Macphail

David Matheson

Bruce McCartney

Somen Mondal

Paul Noble

BabitSaeed

The Colonnade

$1,000+

Raj Babber

The Mortgage Company of Canada

The Fred Cassano & Linda Cianci Charitable Foundation

Natasha Bronfman

Nancy Love

STRONG Pilates Liberty Village

Jeffrey Kroeker

United Way of Greater Toronto & York Region

BONTERRA TECH LLC

David Dattels

Gift Funds Canada

JenniferGrant

Wanda Ho-Pladsen

Phamous Characters Inc

Timothy Dunn

James Milonas

Jewish Foundation of Manitoba

Acorn Biolabs

GaryOrnstein

Peter Sullivan

Stephen Shinn

Sachin Aggarwal

Puppy Love Spa

Loro Piana Canada INC.

Casey Tepperman

Armin Yousefi

Daniel Nelson Legal Professional Corporation

Lemke Law Professional Corporation

Lennox Law Professional Corporation

Raymond Accolas

David MacKay

Jennifer Sterkenburg

2473534 Ontario Inc

Tracey Brophy

James Burn

Irene DeLucchi

Le Germain Hotel Toronto

Mercer

LornaLippa Massey LLP

Ana Pascos

The Michael and Andrea Barrack

Fund

Jenny Aaron

Alan Anderson

Nicolas Burbano Diaz

EliseEsteireiro

Services Or LP

7711 Consulting

Bobby J. Bottoms

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Marie-Josée Beaulieu

Nimi Nanji Simard

Nicolas Del Sorbo

DONORS(FY25)

ADM Design Incorporated

Daniel L Bain

By Mon Ami

Caviar20

Shernee Chandaria

Chimp Charitable Impact

Foundation Canada

Graeme Cooper

Dr Alexis Taryn laungani Inc

Devon Drake

ElevateDesign Ventures Inc

Erik Paige Real Estate

Andrew Faas

Shane Feldman

Paul Galbraith

Vivianne Gauci

Aileen Hernandez

William Hernandez

Asal Hoseini

Joe Jackman

Kyle Kemp

Yewgenia Krindel

Lafayette 148

Lerners LLP

LG Design Build

M.A.M. Group Inc.

David Moore

PRICERE

Brian Stewart

Ashok Taneja

Simon Tariello

The Cruickshank Family Foundation

The Thor E and Nicole Eaton

Family Charitable Foundation

Sandi Treliving

Sonja Ucci

Tyler Da Silva

David Yi

Rahul Raj

Christopher Bates

Jeffrey Chisholm

Giftpact Foundation Inc

Cindy Johnson

Pierre Lemay

Charles Lesaux

Tonya Lesaux

Natasha Penzo

John Tory

CELI LTD

Candice Sinclair

Danny Lebire

Friday Harbour Resort

Paul Tye-Ko

J Greene

Simon Kattar

Sarah Paterson

Vermeer Engineering

Jay McCauley

Christopher Guerreiro

Jacqueline Baker

Laura Campbell

Alison Currie

KristyLuciani

Andrea Menzel

Fairmont Royal York Hotel

Orson Sharpe

Mark Anttila

Claire Chen

Trevor Noonan

David Tremblay

Abundance Canada

Esstiq Beauty

Invest Ottawa

Kyree Nauden

Michael Stern

Maureen Littlejohn

Julia Kaberle

Keith McCrady

Apple Canada Inc.

Jennifer Walsh

F.B. Portman Law Professional

Corporation

W Toronto Hotel

Ron Atkinson

Mani Kaur

Kate McGilvray

JohnR. Baird

Daniel Abichandani

Valerie Baldwin

JohnBeaton

Amy Burstyn

Arv Buttar

Sam Champagne

Conseil du patronat du Québec

Neil Davis

ArielleEby

AngelaFusco

Georgina Goldring

Kanvas

Killeen Communication Strategies

Mia Macfarlane

Philippe Meyersohn

Marvelous Muchenje

Sherri-Anne T Murphy

Ògo Tàwa

Charlotte Positano

Suresh Ramadasan

Liam Randhawa

Simon Rayek

Logan Roberge

Nestor Sanajko

Darrin Saunders

Jonathan Smith

Mary Jean Tully

Judy Wells

KateWheeler

Kary Yang

Sam Siegel

Guerlain Canada Ltd.

Anthony Partipilo

Scott McCambly

Paul Vouriot

DONORS(FY25)

Stephen Johnson

Christy Cook

Hotel Admiral Toronto -

Harbourfront

Timothy Johnson

David Lukin

Patti MacNicol

Chanakya Sethi

Shawn Woof

Gloria Davey

Ashley Kurn

Bloor Yonge Chiropractic

Marcus Doyle

Trinity Jackman

Paul Boniferro

Karam Tawfiq

BrandonGrant

Sally Leung

Daniel Bain

Douglas Ebbott

Shahid Hossain

Vincent Mercier

Francis Pomerleau

Kaitlin Siou

Robert Brien

Erin Donohue

Jane Gill

Carole Cohen Perez

Sandra Culham

Joan Smart

Camilo Gamez

Gary Shieck

Action Canada SHR

Edward Avey

Jennifer Bassett

Canadian Gay Tennis Open

Glenn Carnegie

Dean Davidson Design Inc

Donna Fox

Amanda Galbraith

Anette Goldstein

LeslieHoyles

Michael Lee

Yves Levesque

Chuck Liebrock

Nicole Lorenz

Martha L McCain

Jim McGivern

Rick Mercer

Nixon Charitable Foundation

Oberon Capital Corporation

Gail O'Brien

Michael E. Royce

Greg Schiltroth

AndrewTownsend

$500+

William Chalmers

Alistair Littlejohn

Pascal Grand Maison

Kevin R. Goldthorp

Christopher Grimston

Klevis Haxhiaj

Rita Tesolin

Aesop Canada

Pat Jacklin

Jeff Rock

Marcella Baric

Mark Schaan

Jamie Conboy

Robert A. Stewart

Thomas Ranson

Shimki Chowdhury

TanazNaghshineh

ARDO

Dawn Bellini

Jessica Bertolo

Bloor-Yorkville BIA

Kathryn Buczko

Pascal Dessureault

William F. Flanagan

Hotel Le Germain Toronto

Mercer

Fatima Khalfan

Gallant Law

Evie Lee

Tanya Petti

The 100 Group corp

Vaticano Restaurant

Tom Zaks

Marlowe

Fred Cassano

Rupert Hon

Nixon Poole Lackie

DG Stringer

Jed Perez

Pete N Richardson

Kevin Reed

Emily Scarlett

Gale Pollock

MichaelL Rizzi

Kaleb James

Tyler Da Silva

Daniel Diaz

Christopher Flak

DIPTYQUE

Olaplex USA

Trevor Mayoh

Wilfred Bragg

Julius Kalcevich

Basit Saeed

Steven Ball

Joshua Fagan

John MacLeod

Jon Tuer

Denise Bérubé

Kevin Chan

A.J. Daly

DONORS(FY25)

David Dixon

Glenn Dixon

Andrew Grimes

Neil Guthrie

Cédric Lamoureux

Olivier Perron-Collins

Samer Shaath

Thomas Tullo

Joshua Wiersma

Dorothy Woods

LucianaBarbera

Myles Mindham Jewellery Ltd

Courtney Watkins

University of Toronto - Financial

Services Department

Elspeth Ross

ESP Inc

Sameer Bhaidani

Mathieu Bouchard

David J. Brown

Ryan Chang

Simon Dennison

Pascal Dessureault

Olivier Duchesneau

Cameron Edwards

Sharyn Fagan

Robert Fama

Emilie E. Gravel

Renaud Gravel

Mathieu-Rejean Guindon

August Haig

Ricardo Hamdan

Ty Jeevaratnam

Sako Khederlarian

Po-Lun Ko

Alexander Kucharski

Samuel Lapidus

Alexandre Lapierre

Jacques Lapierre

Michael Lockhart

Andrew Longwell

Justin Margolis

Bonte Minnema

Rebecca Myers

Benjamin Palmer

Gaelen Patrick

Serge J Sasseville

Mark Satov

Ian Shaw

Shiseido Canada Inc

Steven S. Simone

Daniel-Guillaume Stringer

Brad Toth

Drew Williston

Sydney Wills

Diana Woodhead

Halen Yau

Eric Doerr

Brian Chau

Phil Sioumaras

Sean Bouwers

Cold Warriors 2 Inc

Maddie Hubbard

Jennifer Longhurst

Geraldine Moussa

Branka Petrovic

Roni Taza

White Oaks Resort

Tarek Raafat

Dave Forestell

Jamie Irving

Hillary Macdonald

Jarrett Plyley

Marta Urbanowicz

Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser

Melad Fahed

Ahmadshir Mumtaz

Jessica OReilly

John Tessari

Derek Chung

SiriusXM Canada

Adolphe Khouri

2336533 Ontario Ltd

2482081 ONTARIO LIMITED

Tara Armstrong

Axe & Hatchet Grooming Club

Galen Bagdan

Stewart Barclay

Clay Bartlett

Kevin Noguera

Andrea Burke

Michael J. Chang

Liliane Clune

Malcolm Collins

Randy Cranston

David Cynamon

Didier Frechette

Amy Freedman

Brendan S Gillon

John Hartman

IBM Canada Ltd

Jack Creasy Design

Stephen Keith

Melissa Kennedy

Carol Lee

David Lovell

John C Moore

Matthew Morgan

Carole Perez

Eva Redpath

Revelle Fashion Inc

Jeffrey T. Rock

Andrew Rolleston

Fahad Siddiqui

Stephen Slessor

Aaron Sophocleous

Jack Tobin

Whitney Linen Inc

Wayne Yeung

DONORS(FY25)

UNDER $500

The Printing House Limited

Bell Canada

Bathorium Inc

Christopher Guerreiro

Jeffrey Rohrer

Keith J. Holland

Charities Aid Foundation Canada

Christi Himmelheber

SIMON LYSNES

SamanthaMolyneux

Jessie Ablett

Serina Ahmad

Bahareh Aizimi

Carla Albieru

John Aquilina

Shelby Austin

Candy M. Bascoe

Lucie Berreby

R. C. Bullock

Taiya Campbell

Andrea Chang

Thomas Devisscher

Argie Eliopoulos

Nicholas Fozard

Sirat Gill

Sarah Gillin

Victoria Gormley

HiWay Flowers

Blake Kafka-Smith

Daneyka Lazier

Jennifer Leve

Kristina Manojlovic

Jennifer McCain

Geraldine McCuish

Anna Monaco

Linda Nguyen

Amanda Pereira

Riverside Geo

Vanessa Rosario

Jack-Malcolm Samedi

Sosina Tsehey

MargaretWelykanycz

Lyn M Westwood

Whitney Westwood

Tobiasz Woroniecki

Mike Zaranyik

Jonathan Azzi

Mike Black

Catalyst Health

David Levangie

Shruti Mehrotra

Adam Awad

Elissa A. Beckett

Collin Faubert

Phil Jansson

Chris MacMillan

Larry Murray

Chloe Muttoo

Megan Otu

Colleen Potts

Lee Robinson

United Way of the Lower Mainland

United Way East ONTARIO

Jaybird Studios Ltd

Felix Laurence

Dani Matte

Zael Miransky

Andrew Perez

Ryan Stasynec

Barry's

Sylvain Roussel

Maggie Ranson

Jung-Kay Chiu

Leslie Guerreiro

Kristin Wall

Noah Tremblay

Jordan O'Reilly

Anonymous

Douglas Bernier

Stewart Borden

Canadian Club of Halton

Jessica Gall

KYLE Haycock

Sherry Haynes

Michaela Hynie

Todd Kjargaard

Natasha MacParland

Ivan Mao

Scott McBurney

Neil McDermid

Cheral Muldoon

Nixon Poole Lackie LLP

Luke Southern

DavidTabacznik

April Unwin

Ruchi Vij

Tammi Visano

Anna Wilkinson

Gregg Brown

Albert Kim

Brenda L Brodie

Daryl Christoff

Julie Crossland

Blair Mlotek

James Renihan

Nishant Joshi

Caroline Siwek

Arjun Tanwar

Jérémie Tremblay

Pipes and Shaw LLC

Charles Carr

Kaelan Karjalainen

Jessica Newman

Richard Archbold

SarbjitBasra

Michael Cockburn

Engelite Charitable Foundation

Jason Field

Gerold Goldlist

Karen Jacobs

Brooke Jamison

JJ Media

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YOUR ANNUAL SUPPORT HAS GREATLY INCREASED ACCESS TO CRITICAL HIV PREVENTION, TESTING, AND CARE FOR AT-RISK COMMUNITIES, IMPROVING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV, LIKE ME. ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND THE CANFAR NATIONAL AMBASSADORS, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSISTENT AND CONTINUED SUPPORT OF CANFAR’S MISSION TO END THE HIV EPIDEMIC IN CANADA.

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FROM ALL OF US AT CANFAR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK, DEDICATION, TIME AND SPIRIT OF VOLUNTEERISM FOR HELPING US RAISE RECORD FUNDS IN FY25.

LEADERSHIP TRANSITION

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WE ARE WRITING TO SHARE IMPORTANT NEWS REGARDING A LEADERSHIP TRANSITION AT CANFAR. AFTER YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE, ALEX FILIATRAULT HAS FORMALLY STEPPED DOWN FROM HIS ROLE AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AS OF MAY 9, 2025. WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO ALEX FOR HIS EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND TRANSFORMATIONAL WORK OVER HIS TENURE.

Under Alex’s guidance, CANFAR expanded its reach, deepened its connections with communities across the country, and engaged more youth through critical awareness and program implementation efforts

In the interim, Kevin Noguera and Roxanne Ma will assume the roles of Interim CoExecutive Directors of the Foundation.

The Board is incredibly grateful to Alex for his vision, unwavering commitment, and for building a strong, high-performing team that is well-positioned to lead CANFAR into its next chapter. We remain steadfast in our shared goal of ending the HIV epidemic in Canada, and we look forward to what lies ahead.

With appreciation,