BACKGROUND: Young Indigenous people, particularly those involved in the child welfare
system, those entrenched in substance use and those living with HIV or hepatitis C, are …

Objective Indigenous leaders and child and family advocates are deeply concerned about
the health impacts of the child welfare system, including HIV vulnerability. The objectives of …

OBJECTIVE: Compare all-cause mortality between Indigenous participants and participants
of other ethnicities living with HIV initiating combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) in an …

Background: Studies suggest that Aboriginal people in Canada are over-represented
among people using injection drugs. The factors associated with transitioning to the use of …

Background Illicit drug overdose deaths (IDD) relate to individual drug dose and context of
use, including use with other drugs and alcohol. IDD peaked in British Columbia (BC) in …

Background. There is evidence of increasing trends in substance use and related harms
among Aboriginal populations in Canada. This paper provides a review of data on alcohol …

Background Young people with problematic alcohol and other drug (AOD) use are often
referred to residential treatment. Subsequent mortality rates among this high-risk group is …

Inaccuracies in the identification of Indigenous status and the collection of and access to
vital statistics data impede the strategic implementation of evidence-based public health …

Discourses about who qualifies as Indigenous limit how data on Indigenous people are
collected. Data on Métis, Inuit and those living on reserves are scarce. 3 This may mask the …

Background Young injection drug users (IDUs) may be at increased risk of premature
mortality due to the health risks associated with injection drug use including overdoses and …