We acknowledge the people living with HIV who organized to create the OCS, contribute to the data in the OCS, support the governance of data, and guide the research process. OCS Participants, interviewers, data collectors, research associates and coordinators, nurses and physicians who provide support for data collection, OCS staff for data management, IT support, and study coordination. We acknowledge the Public Health Ontario, for supporting linkage with the HIV viral load database. We acknowledge the OCS Study team, Governance Committee, Indigenous Data Governance Circle, Scientific Steering Committee. The OHTN Cohort Study is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Health. The opinions, results and conclusions are those of the authors and no endorsement by the Ontario HIV Treatment Network is intended or should be inferred.
The OHTN Cohort Study Team consists of Dr. Abigail Kroch, Dr. Ann Burchell, Dr. Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Dr. Anita C. Benoit, Dr. Alan Li, Dr. Corinna Quan, Dr. Curtis Cooper, Dr. David Knox, Elizabeth Lavoie, Dr. Jeffrey Craig, Dr. Jorge Martinez-Cajas, Holly Gauvin, Dr. Gordon Arbess, Dr. Mona Loutfy, Dr. Michael Silverman, Dr. Nisha Andany, Dr. Phillipe El-Helou, Dr. Sharon Walmsley, Tammy Borque, Wangari Tharao.
OCS Governance Committee: Aaron Bowerman, Adrian Betts, Barry Adam, Cornel Grey, Dane Record, Elisio Muchano, Jasmine Cotnam, Jason Brophy, Mary Ndung’u, Rodney Rousseau, Ruth Cameron, Viviana Santibañez, Y.Y. Chen
OCS Indigenous Data Governance Circle: Jasmine Cotnam, Randy Jackson, Meghan Young, and Trevor Stratton
OCS Scientific Steering Committee: Sergio Rueda, Ann Burchell, Barry Adam, David Brennan, Curtis Cooper, Trevor Hart, Mona Loutfy, Kelly O’Brien, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Pierre Giguere, Anita Benoit, Lance McCready, Randy Jackson, and Sean Hillier.
OCS staff: Lucia Light, Maya Kesler, Mustafa Karacam, Nahid Qureshi, Namita Prabhu, and Tsegaye Bekele.
We also acknowledge the Public Health Laboratories, Public Health Ontario, for supporting record linkage with the HIV viral load database. The opinions, results and conclusions are those of the authors and no endorsement by the Ontario HIV Treatment Network or Public Health Ontario is intended or should be inferred.