 
November 26, 2007
Canada’s Underfunded AIDS Fight
According to Canadian activists, leaders in the national capital of Ottawa, Ontario, have been financially apathetic in fighting HIV/AIDS (lfpress.ca, 11/26).
Despite the more than 14,000 people living with the virus in the Canadian city of Toronto alone, Lori Lucier—executive director of the AIDS Committee of Toronto—says that Canada’s federal government has significantly cut its funding for HIV/AIDS organizations and other health-related services.
“It’s been 25 years since the first case of AIDS was reported in Toronto, and the legal and political situation is as uncertain as ever—both for people living with HIV/AIDS and the organizations that work with them.”
Women make up 25 percent of new infections in Canada. Roughly a third of these cases occur among people ages 15 through 29.
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