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[Margaret Akan] said she realizes Dr. [Chokani]'s forecast of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal population sounded extreme, but she believes he is accurate. Furthermore, she was upset to read follow-up articles that dubbed Chokani's statistics as unlikely.
[Moira McKinnon] also said she will request a "substantial" amount of money from the government in November to continue with newly-implemented strategies to help reduce the spread of HIV. Some strategies include task groups designed to address some of the weaknesses of Saskatchewan -a province that has close to double the national average of people with HIV- in its fight against AIDS."When someone walks through the doors of All Nations Hope and asks us for help, we don't want to put band-aids on them, we want to get to the root causes," said Akan. "And it's not just a six week program."See the full content of this document
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Alarming Rate of Hiv in Aboriginal Population
The startling statistics that have recently been forecast on the amount of Aboriginal people that will suffer from HIV and AIDS only scratches the surface, says the CEO of an Aboriginal HIV/AIDS organization in Saskatchewan.
Margaret Akan of the All Nations Hope AIDS...See the full content of this document
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