HIV frontline workers in Saskatchewan say more needs to be done – CBC
79% of new HIV cases in Sask. in 2016 were Indigenous
Dec 01, 2017
On a day where the world reflects on HIV and AIDS, frontline care workers say more can be done for people living with the disease in Saskatchewan, which has the highest rates of HIV infection in Canada.
Recent numbers for HIV/AIDS infection rates in Saskatchewan indicate that one health region has seen an 800 per cent increase in confirmed cases and access to treatment is more of a concern than ever.
Saskatchewan had 2,091 cases reported between 1985 and 2016. The number of new cases in Saskatchewan in 2016 — 170 — was almost triple the national average. Seventy-nine per cent of those new cases self-identified as Indigenous.
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