AS in the News

HIV fight needs more funds: groups
BY RORY MACLEAN,
THE STARPHOENIX
MAY 15, 2010

Some local doctors and advocacy groups are saying the recent $2.5 million in provincial funding for the Saskatchewan HIV strategy is a start, but not nearly enough.

"The province is on the verge of a huge forest fire," said Canadian Treatment Action Council spokesperson Mark Randall. "We need water to fight it, but all the province has given us is a thimble-full to put it out."

New HIV/AIDS program to come to Prince Albert
P.A. Daily Herald
Published on May 15th, 2010
Angela Hill

SASKATOON — Prince Albert is going to be the new site for a satellite office of AIDS Saskatoon, an AIDS service organization serving central and northern Saskatchewan.

“AIDS Saskatoon has just received money from the Public Health Agency of Canada to develop a satellite office in Prince Albert,” said Nicole White, executive co-ordinator of AIDS Saskatoon.

Study tracks HIV
Researchers hope to find reasons behind increase in infections
By Hannah Scissons, The StarPhoenix May 6, 2010

Fewer needles found during annual cleanup
By Jeremy Warren, The StarPhoenix
April 21, 2010

HIV rise sparks warning
Recent jumps linked to usage of injected drugs
BY HANNAH SCISSONS, THE STARPHOENIX APRIL 7, 2010

The Speaker: — I recognize the member from Saskatoon Eastview.

World AIDS Day

Ms. Junor: — Mr. Speaker, the first international AIDS [acquired immune deficiency syndrome] Day was on December 1st, 1988. Twenty-one years later, 33.4 million people are living with HIV [human immunodeficiency virus], including 2.1 million children. Half the people who become infected do so before they are 25, and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment, prevention, and care, recognizing these as fundamental human rights.