Activists say Canada’s response to HIV and AIDS has stalled, call for more funding

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Activists say Canada’s response to HIV and AIDS has stalled, call for more funding
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Advocates say federal funding for HIV and AIDS has been frozen since 2008, even though the number of people in Canada living with HIV has risen by 25% since then

Canadian HIV and AIDS organizations say an international AIDS conference opening in Montreal this week is shining a light on Canada’s lagging response to the disease.

He says the federal government has recently used money from budgets for HIV and AIDS to fund groups responding to the monkeypox outbreak in the country.

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