AIDS Increasing in Canada

July 31, 2006 on 10:14 pm | Friedrich Braun | Canadian Politics , Ethnicity and Ethnic Genetic Interests , Genetics & Human Bio-Diversity , Health , IQ and Heredity , Immigration , Race Realism , Science & Technology | | Email This Post | Print this Post

OTTAWA - The number of people in Canada with HIV/AIDS is now about 58,000 — 0.2 percent of the population — compared with 50,000 in 2002. More than a quarter of them do not know they have been infected, the Public Health Agency of Canada said in a report released Monday.

“The number of Canadians living with HIV infection will likely continue to increase in years to come as new infection rates continue and survival rates improve,” said the Agency’s Dr. Frank Plummer.

Offical estimates place the number of new HIV infections in 2005 at between 2,300 and 4,500–about the same as or slightly higher than in 2002, when approximately 2,100 to 4,000 were infected. The majority of cases, 51 percent, stemmed from male homosexuality.

A University of Toronto study also found a disproportionate rate of HIV infection among recent immigrants of African descent–up to 60 times that of other Canada residents–with as many as 450 new cases of HIV a year.

In some regions their numbers have moved ahead of intravenous drug users. Most represent immigrants arriving with the disease, but up to 45 per cent are getting the virus in Canada. The reasons include promiscious sexual behavior normal among Blacks.

According to a Reuters report, Toronto will host a major international conference on AIDS next month, although Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not be in attendance. Harper plans to reopen a debate on whether to scrap new laws that allow homosexual “marriage” in Canada.

Canada is one of thirteen countries that grants foreign homosexuals political asylum because of fear of “persecution” in their home country on the basis of their sexual behavior. The United States does so also, in accordance with the Immigration Act of 1990, which removed homosexuality as a ground for exclusion from immigration to the U.S.


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