In December of 2019, researchers from the Public Health Agency of Canada released the 2018 HIV Surveillance Report. In the Canadian Communicable Disease Report (CCDR) article, the researchers downplay the impact of rising HIV rates, and indeed even downplay the existence of such an increase. Canada’s HIV response needs to be strengthened to address […]
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The Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt serves as a living memory of the almost 25,000 Canadians who have died of AIDS-related causes. In the beginning of the AIDS crisis many people who died of AIDS-related causes did not receive funerals—due to both the social stigma of AIDS and the outright refusal by many funeral homes and
La Courtepointe commémorative canadienne du sida est un souvenir vivant des quelque 25 000 Canadien(ne)s décédés de causes liées au sida. Au début de la crise du sida, de nombreuses personnes décédées de causes liées au sida n’avaient pas de funérailles – à cause de la stigmatisation sociale, mais aussi parce que plusieurs centres funéraires
