Expert: HIV-AIDS fight must target racism, poverty

Dr. Clemon George, an epidemiologist who has studied HIV-AIDS in Ontario’s African-Canadian and Caribbean-Canadian communities, addressed a World AIDS Day event in Halifax on Wednesday. (Tim Krochak / Staff)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was published in TheChronicleHerald.ca web site; it quotes Dr. Clemon George, a Dominican from the village of Wesley. He was the guest speaker at the Radical Jam for Peace held in Wesley, June 2010.

The stigma of HIV-AIDS weighs heaviest on certain communities but it is a global issue, says Clemon George, a professor and HIV-AIDS researcher at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

“HIV is a chronic infection that affects everyone,” he said in an interview Wednesday at the Italian Cultural Centre in Halifax, where he gave the keynote address at an event sponsored by the Nova Scotia Advisory Commission on AIDS marking World AIDS Day.

“There is no issue with race being a factor that we have to be worried about because it affects all races,” George said. “We must work together as a community.”

George is an epidemiologist who has studied HIV-AIDS in Ontario’s African-Canadian and Caribbean-Canadian communities.

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5 Comments

  1. real possie
    December 5, 2010

    yep on point

  2. true dominican
    December 5, 2010

    please brother and sister ,in dominica we can stop the spread of H IV .
    by cducating each other about the virus .

  3. only
    December 4, 2010

    I think they ought to focus their efforts on fighting the source of the virus, the Pentagon.

    • oh no
      December 5, 2010

      funny

  4. Da
    December 3, 2010

    RIGHT ON POINT.

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