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Article: AIDS organization fighting fear and under funding.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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With almost no staff and with resources stretched, an Aboriginal AIDS organization is making headway against fear, ignorance and apathy where HIV and AIDS are concerned.
Sources contacted by Windspeaker, both Native organizations and the Regina health district office, named All Nations Hope AIDS Network of Regina as the place to get an Aboriginal perspective on AIDS issues in Saskatchewan. The Network also funnels funding to Aboriginal AIDS projects around the province.
All Nations Hope is five years old and was started as an initiative of the Aboriginal people there. The agency partners with AIDS Regina, a mainstream organization that ...