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As a family physician working in Native* communities on the western James Bay Coast, I go
to work every day in what used to be a tuberculosis sanitorium. It has since been converted …

BACKGROUND: The numbers and demographics of HIV-positive patients in care between
2003 and 2007 in the prairie provinces were examined. METHODS: Estimates of HIV …

Objective: To estimate the number of prevalent and incident HIV infections in Canada in
2008. Methods: We applied multiple methods to estimate national HIV prevalence and …

Context There is considerable concern about the spread of HIV disease among Aboriginal
peoples in British Columbia. Objective To estimate the number of Aboriginal British …

Objectives. Over the last decade, there has been growing concern in the public health sector
over the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Canada's Aboriginal population …

There is a common perception that HIV/AIDS is not a prominent health concern in rural
and/or northern Aboriginal communities, 1 misleading people into thinking they are not at …

Objectives. We sought to examine whether there were differential rates of HIV incidence
among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal injection drug users in a Canadian setting. Methods …

Aboriginal women are the caregivers of their communities, and while they have repeatedly
shown themselves to be strong, resilient and undaunted by hardship, they can not be …

PIP: Some members of First Nations believe that HIV/AIDS does not affect Aboriginal
populations. They instead believe that it is a White man's disease which affects only …