SFU health sciences professor Angela Kaida wants to help shape health policies and programs to support HIV-affected women to safely achieve their reproductive desires and enjoy healthy and satisfying sex lives.
And now that her Canada Research Chair in Global Perspectives on HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health has been renewed, she has the funding she needs to continue her ground-breaking research on sexual and reproductive well-being among HIV-affected individuals.
As a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, the global health epidemiologist will build on her previous work focused on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and men living with HIV. In rural Uganda, she is investigating the effect of a safer, patient-centered contraception intervention to support HIV-affected individuals and couples who desire children, while eliminating HIV transmission risk to the uninfected partner.