HIV & AIDS

Comments on a study that concludes higher rates of mortality are found in Aboriginal Canadians after starting highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) compared to non-Aboriginals.

Website contains information, news, services, Positive Journeys newsletter, links and resources on HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C.

Discusses basic information and preventive measures.

Young woman, who is HIV positive, discusses how she is coping with the disease. Duration: 10:44

Discusses the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among Native American women, and offers recommendations to address existing health disparities.

Studies the limited access to needed services.

Discusses the results from the Indian Adolescent Health Survey conducted in 1988-1990.

Website promotes national and international Aboriginal health research that is relevant to the well-being of Aboriginal communities, with a focus on prevention of HIV/AIDS, gender and domestic violence, and diabetes and related conditions.

Public Health Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2015.

Using data collected by Canadian Observational Cohort (CANOC) to compare the risk of interruption and quality of HIV treatment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants.

Findings indicate similar outcomes for foreign born and Canadian born non-aboriginal patients but Canadian born aboriginal patients had poorer results. More research is recommended.

Analyzes the benefits of using the Live Course Approach, that shares practices with Indigenous medicine, to reduce discrimination in the Canadian health care system.

Identifies steps needed to prevent the spread of HIV in Native American communities. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 8.

Examines the integration of art therapy and in-home therapy for Native Americans to cope with historical and personal trauma.

Describes an innovative health education tool developed for use with the Aboriginal community. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 14.

Reveals an action plan in response to the serious threat that HIV/AIDS poses for First Nations people and their communities. Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.

Presents health care providers with culturally relevant training tools to improve communication with patients regarding the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV and other STIs, and supports efforts to minimize STI impact, including HIV, on Native communities.

Presents health care providers with culturally relevant training tools to improve communication with patients regarding the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV and other STIs, and supports efforts to minimize STI impact, including HIV, on Native communities.

Findings from the 1988-89 study indicated an estimated 10.6% of male and 6.4% of female Pacific Northwestern American Indians were at high risk for AIDS in contrast to 3% of the general U.S. population.

Presents seventy-five recommendations based on education, outreach, social determinants, harm reduction, accessible treatment services and support for research.

Examines the collected data from educational workshop participants used to examine characteristics associated with positive & negative attitudes and beliefs about those who are living with HIV, based on categories such as age, gender and location.

Brief statistical report on HIV/AIDS cases during the period April 1 - June 30, 2000.

Explores themes of homosexuality, Aboriginal identity, and death in the poet's works.

Looks at the impact of mother blame and stigmatization on Aboriginal women who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and injection drug use. Includes experiences of three women author encountered while working with AIDS Saskatoon. Entire book on one pdf. To read this chapter scroll to p. 103. Chapter from Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance edited by Michelle Hughes Miller, Tamar Hager, and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich.

Reviews responses to survey in which sample consisted of service providers, representatives of community partner organizations, and two focus groups; identifies best practices and makes recommendations. WISE Project deals with women living in the downtown East/South areas of Vancouver, with focus on Aboriginals.

Based around the national HIV/AIDS Leadership Conference: Breaking the Barriers - Addressing the Emerging Epidemic, Regina, March 14-16. Recommended outcomes will be used by the Assembly of First Nations to develop an action plan on HIV/AIDS.

Program is designed to help health care providers become comfortable in treating this group. Aimed at physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, Indigenous healers, etc.

Description of the Taking Action! Building Aboriginal Leadership in HIV Prevention Using Arts-based Methods research project. Focuses on four pieces created by participants from Kahnawá:ke First Nation, Kettle and Stony Point & Aamjiwnaang First Nations, Montreal, Toronto, and Charlottetown.

Findings show that arts-based approaches to the development of HIV-prevention knowledge and Indigenous youth leadership are helping to involve youth in a critical dialogue about health.

Using interviews from Indigenous people living with HIV and/or AIDS about their experiences and barriers of their disclosures.

Study concludes that there is a strong need for better behavioural health programming and support services for at risk youth in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Discusses the history of racialized injustice faced by Indigenous, African, Caribbean and Black communities in the Americas, with a focus on Canada. This background provides context for findings of an arts-based intervention that explored notions of identity, resistance and solidarity-building between young people from these groups.

Website contains information, statistics, links, news and research on HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C.

Data current as of end of 2016.

Data to the end of 2017.

Provides information on notifiable infectious diseases and discusses ways to minimize the risk of transmission.

Analyzes connection between co-infection, injection drug use, poverty, gender, and ethnicity/race to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Notes that this conference was, "the first HIV/AIDS conference anywhere in the world to feature a conference track specifically dedicated to Indigenous and ethnic minority communities."

Looks at the Streetwize Comic series, Gotta Know which deals with the issue of addiction and drug use, HIV/AIDS prevention, education, treatment, and care.

Toolkit to be used as resource for organizations working with communities within the Northern Plains tribal culture.

Social Dimensions of Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Victoria, 2014.

Insights into the health, well-being and resilience of youth as it relates to sexual and injecting behaviour.

Discusses ways to change research paradigm by introducing a community based model which includes building and sustaining collaborative relations, cultural implementation of programs, and spreading research findings from a tribal perspective.

Discusses differential rates of HIV incidence among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal injection drug users, and the need for a culturally sensitive and evidence-based response to the epidemic.

Lists documents published by the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network. Current as of 2011.

Provides links to publications, careers and message board.