Featured Video of the Day: Aboriginal Youth HIV awareness message
Credits: AIDS Niagara
Published on May 13, 2014
AIDS Niagara, The Southern Ontario Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative, Reztore Pride And Youth from The Fort Erie Native Centre have created a video message about Aboriginal HIV prevention.
In Canada Aboriginal people make up 4%1 of the general population, but 12% of all new HIV Infections.2
Aboriginal people who contract HIV do so at a younger age than the general population.3
The most common way for Aboriginal people to contract HIV is through sharing needles.3
1 Statistics Canada. Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: First Nations People, Métis and Inuit. 2013.
2 Public Health Agency of Canada. Summary: Estimates of HIV Prevalence and Incidence in Canada, 2011. Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Professional Guidelines and Public Health Practice Division, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 2012
3 Public Health Agency of Canada. HIV/AIDS Among Aboriginal People in Canada, 2010. Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division. Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control. Public Health Agency of Canada, 2010.
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