I wasn’t allowed to kiss my own grandchildren’: Sask. doctors call for emergency response to HIV crisis – StarPhoenix
Doctors from across Saskatchewan say the province’s rates of HIV infections have reached a critical point and a state of emergency should be declared.
Saskatchewan’s HIV rates are double the national average. Doctors say it’s time for the provincial health ministry to step in.
“People are become ill and dying from a treatable and preventable disease … the time to act is now,” Dr. Stephen Sanche, an infectious disease specialist, said Monday at a news conference held by the Saskatchewan HIV/AIDS Research Endeavour.
The group is demanding the province not only declare a state of emergency over the crisis, but that the costs of all the anti-retroviral treatments for HIV-positive people in the province be covered, regardless of where that person lives.
