Roundtable on Aboriginal risks & frontline work

Program Title: Focus on HIV and Aboriginal Peoples
Description: Last month one of Saskatchewan’s medical officers of health made a startling prediction, warning that HIV could kill from 15 to 30 percent of Saskatchewan’s Aboriginal population over five to ten years. While public health officials in that province have backed away from what has been described as a worst-case scenario, there is clearly concern about infection rates—among Aboriginal peoples in Saskatchewan and Aboriginal peoples across Canada.
This program focuses on HIV issues related to Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia.

Host(s): Kevin Midbo, Jan Coleman
Featured Speakers/Guests: Dr. Evan Adams, Aboriginal Health Advisor with the office of the B.C. provincial officer of health Fairlie Mendoza, community health nurse with Tsewulhtun Health Centre, in Duncan, B.C. Tammy Wylie, manager, and Dennis Ano, community health nurse, with Tillicum Haus Friendship Centre in Nanaimo, B.C.

Credits: People First Radio is an initiative of Columbian Centre Society and broadcast on CHLY 101.7 FM community/campus radio in Nanaimo, B.C.

Comments: The opnions expressed are not necessarily those of Columbian Centre Society or Radio Malaspina Society.