The+Government+of+Canada+and+their+role+in+HIV+Prevention

The Following Information comes from The Health Canada Website
[] March 16, 2010

Government of Canada's Role
In January 2005, the Government of Canada launched the [|Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada] and committed to pursuing a Government of Canada-wide approach to addressing HIV/AIDS. The Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada signals a renewed and strengthened federal role in the Canadian response to HIV/AIDS. The Federal Initiative, a partnership of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Health Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Correctional Service Canada, will focus on addressing the complex social, human rights, biological and community barriers that continue to fuel the epidemic. Recommendations from program reviews, evaluations and other consultative exercises, have signalled the need for the federal government to: Canada has also responded to the [|global HIV/AIDS crisis]. In May 2004, the Government committed funds to the World Health Organization's 3 by 5 initiative, to help provide anti-retroviral treatment to 3 million people with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2005. The Government is also extending its contribution in 2005 to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In addition to these contributions, the Government has passed a bill to make less-expensive generic drugs available to developing and least developed countries facing public health challenges such as HIV/AIDS.
 * Develop discrete approaches to addressing the epidemic for people living withHIV/AIDS, gay men, injection drug users, Aboriginal people, prison inmates, youth and women at risk for HIV infection, and people from countries where HIV is endemic;
 * Increase government collaboration at all levels - federal, provincial, territorial and municipal;
 * Support the use of social marketing initiatives to increase public awareness ofHIV/AIDS and encourage those who may be part of the hidden epidemic to accessHIV/AIDS programs;
 * Encourage greater integration of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment interventions with those of other diseases, as appropriate;
 * More broadly engage federal departments and agencies in the response, such as Citizen and Immigration Canada, and those that have mandates related to housing, disability, social justice, employment and other determinants of health;
 * Increase its engagement in the global response to the epidemic; and
 * Improve the communication of outcomes achieved from federal investments inHIV/AIDS.

**Resource Centres**

 * [|Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)]

**Federal Initiative**
Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada
 * [|Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada]
 * [|HIV/AIDS Global Engagement Grants Programme]

**Related Information**

 * [|Federal/Provincial/Territorial Assistance Program for HIV Secondarily Infected Individuals]
 * [|HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Updates]
 * [|Information for First Nations and Inuit on HIV and AIDS]
 * [|Surveillance Reports: HIV and AIDS in Canada]
 * [|What You Need to Know About STIs]
 * [|World AIDS Day 2007]