Muluba Habanyama

High-energy Spokesperson Representative with exceptional public speaking and relationship-building abilities. Expert in building enthusiasm for brand messages and organizational activities. Never shies from public speaking or tough conversations.

2024 - present

Continuing Medical Education Course - University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine’s Division of Continuing Professional Development

• develop a new Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) Continuing Medical Education Course for health-care professionals across Canada.

• Co-facilitate PHAC activities and co-create syphilis awareness campaign

• Co-develop HIV treatment awareness campaign

• developed interactive educational virtual sessions with community healthcare providers to amplify the capacity of community-based clinicians to provide specialized care to women living with HIV.

2014-2015

 Community Mapping - Peel HIV/AIDS Network 

• identified the needs and challenges of people living with HIV in Peel region

Community Advisory Board Member - Injectable ART 

Community Advisory Board Member - NOVA Study [Principal Investigator: Dr. Deborah Money]

• Aim: Study whether women living with HIV can develop an adequate immune response to only two doses of the GARDASIL®9 vaccine, as compared to three, and whether women living with HIV can be protected from some or all of the types of HPV.

Co-Chair, Community Advisory Board - CHESS Study [Principal Investigator: Dr. Ann Burchell]

• Aim: To estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in people living with HIV in Ontario, and to assess the burden of COVID-19-related illness and impacts on HIV care engagement

Principal Knowledge User - CAN LhIVE WELL study [Principal Investigator: Dr. Jason Brophy] - Funded by CIHR ($20, 000)

• Aim: To study what it really means to live well in the context of living with HIV in Canada, and to clearly define the spheres of wellness or wellbeing for people living with HIV to enable research on this topic. Read more: https://www.hivnet.ubc.ca/news/2021/05/living-your-best-life-defining-living-versus-living-well-with-hiv-in-canada/

2024

• Criminal code reform advocacy with Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Arif Virani.

2023

• HIV prevention advocacy with Canada's Minster of Health, Mark Holland.

2018

• Women's health advocacy discussion with Ontario's Minister of Health, Dr. Eric Hoskins.
• Interviewed Premier Kathleen Wynne about government funding and priorities to advance HIV testing and treatment in Ontario.

• Koebel J, Kazemi M, Kennedy VL, Medeiros P, Bertozzi B, Bevan L, Tharao W,
  Logie CH, Underhill A, Pick N, King E, Kestler M, Yudin MH, Rana J, Carvalhal A,
  Webster K, Lee M, Islam S, Nicholson V, Ndung'u M, Narasimhan M, Gagnier B,
  Habanyama M, de Pokomandy A, Kaida A, Loutfy M; -
  Dissemination of the Women-Centred HIV Care Model: A Multimodal Process and
  Evaluation. - PubMed (2024)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38389331/

• Kaida A, Cameron B, Conway T, Cotnam J, Danforth J, de Pokomandy A, Gagnier
  B, Godoy S, Gormley R, Greene S, Habanyama M, Kazemi M, Logie CH, Loutfy M,
  MacGillivray J, Masching R, Money D, Nicholson V, Osborne Z, Pick N, Sanchez M,
  Tharao W, Watt S, Narasimhan M. - Key recommendations for developing a national
  action plan to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women
  living with HIV in Canada. - PubMed (2022)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35435062/

• Opinion: This World AIDS Day, we need to stop criminalizing people with HIV - Muluba Habanyama, Colin Johnson, Flo Ranville - Ottawa Citizen (2023)

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/opinion-this-world-aids-day-we-need-to-stop-criminalizing-people-with-hiv

• Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV - Muluba Habanyama, Angela Kaida, Zoe Osborne

https://perspectivesblog.sagepub.com/blog/research/advancing-the-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-of-women-living-with-hiv

• Opinion: Black women face three pandemics - Dr. Notisha Massaquoi, Tola Mbulaheni, Muluba Habanyama - Healthing.ca (2021)

https://www.healthing.ca/wellness/opinion/opinion-black-women-face-three-pandemics/

• I’m 24, a Gemini and Casually Dating - Oh, and I’m HIV-Positive - Muluba Habanyama - FLARE (2017)

https://www.lifeandlovewithhiv.ca/im-24-a-gemini-and-casually-dating-oh-and-im-hiv-positive/

• Youth Living with HIV in Ontario Take Back Their Narrative - Muluba Habanyama - IN Magazine (2019)

http://inmagazine.ca/2019/05/youth-living-with-hiv-in-ontario-take-back-their-narrative/

• How I Told the World That I was HIV Positive - Muluba Habanyama MTV Staying Alive (2015)

http://www.mtvstayingalive.org/blog/2015/04/how-i-told-the-the-world-that-i-was-hiv-positive/

2016

• YTH Live Global. San Francisco, California. - Master of Ceremonies
• Sheridan College Commencement. Oakville, Ontario. - Valedictorian
• University of Toronto's World AIDS Day. Toronto, Ontario. - Guest Speaker

2017

• AIDS Walk for Life. Edmonton, Alberta. Guest Speaker
• CANFAR's Bloor Street Entertains. Toronto, Ontario. - Guest Speaker
• St. Stephen's Catholic School. Mississauga, Ontario. - Guest Speaker

2018

• CANFAR's Can You Do Lunch? Toronto, Ontario. - Interviewing Premier Kathleen Wynne
• CTN 25 Years Celebration of Community. Vancouver, British Columbia. - Moderator
• 22nd International AIDS Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands. - Canada Pavillion Speaker
• CANFAR's Bloor Street Entertains. Toronto, Ontario. - Guest Speaker

2019

• University of Toronto, Year 2 Medical School. Toronto, Ontario - Guest Lecturer
• CANFAR's Bloor Street Entertains. Toronto. Ontario - Guest Speaker

2021

• Let's Stop AIDS's No Time To Wait Conference. Toronto, Ontario. - Session Moderator
• CANFAR's Bloor Street Entertains. Toronto, Ontario. - Guest Speaker
• AIDS Committee of Toronto's World AIDS Day Celebration. Toronto. Ontario. - Co-host

2022

• University of Toronto, Year 2 Medical School. Toronto, Ontario. - Guest Lecturer
• The 15th International Workshop on Pediatrics & HIV. Montreal, Ontario. - Panelist
• 23rd International AIDS Conference's Global Village Opening. Montreal, Ontario. - Panelist
• 23rd International AIDS Conference's WomenSpeak Launch. Montreal, Ontario. - Speaker

2023

• CTN's 30 Years of Community Celebration. Quebec City, Quebec. - Co-host
• CAHR 2023 ViiV Symposium. Quebec City, Quebec. - Moderator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUAQyzjPmzg&t=5s

• CANFAR's Bloor Street Entertains. Toronto, Ontario. - Guest Speaker

2024

• Gilead National Business Meeting. Toronto, Ontario. - Panelist
• AIDS Committee of Toronto Community Health Forum. Toronto. Ontario. - Panelist
• University of Toronto, Year 2 Medical School. Toronto, Ontario - Guest Lecturer
• CAHR 2023; Social Sciences. London, Ontario. - Co-presenter
• CAHR 2023 ViiV Symposium. London, Ontario. - Moderator
• CANFAR'S Can You Do Lunch? Toronto, Ontario. - Co-chair and Speaker

On Camera:

• Breakfast Television (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4sh498tE08
• The Morning Show (2022) https://globalnews.ca/video/8887796/hiv-advocate-shares-her-journey-of-acceptance-to-help-combat-stigma
• CBC News Network (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052-i3BG7Q0
• CTV Toronto (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=226XHenr7yM
• CP24 (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmG4uMXQhJo
• CP24 (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nock5wmbHng
• CTV News Channel (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egOgS77plIc

On Paper:

• Maclean's (2021) https://macleans.ca/sponsored/ending-hiv-related-stigma
• She Does the City (2021) https://www.shedoesthecity.com/muluba-habanyama-has-lived-with-hiv-her-whole-life-and-wants-to-clarify-some-things/
• Toronto Sun (2015) https://torontosun.com/2015/12/03/hiv-youth-no-longer-living-with-fear-and-shame
• Toronto Star (2015) https://www.thestar.com/life/health-wellness/toronto-area-women-born-with-hiv-speak-out-to-fight-stigma/article_5bdd416d-6e8e-5313-bfe7-4800ad80eb05.html

2015-2016 

Sheridan College - Peer Mentor

2015-2019

Ontario HIV Treatment Network - Board of Directors

2014-2017

YouthTechHealth - Advisory Board 

2015-2020

The Teresa Group - Board of Directors

2021-2022

AIDS Committee of Toronto - Board of Directors

• 01/2024, Charles Roy Award for Activism in HIV/AIDS, Inspire Awards
• 12/2023, The Casey Award for leadership in social justice for HIV/AIDS, Casey House
• 04/2022, Patron Circle Award, Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR)
• 06/2016, Valedictorian, Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
• 01/2016, Michael Monty Award & Scholarship, Ontario Broadcasters Association
• 06/2015, Black Women Moving Forward Advocacy Award, Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention

• Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpWASVBYM2Y, How you can have HIV and never pass it on
• Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAJ2VLD0Sw&pp=ygUWdGhlIHBvc2l0aXZlIG5ld3Mgb2h0bg%3D%3D, How HIV Testing Helps Communities