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In Canada, Aboriginal people continue to be over-represented among populations at risk for, and living with, HIV/AIDS. Although Aboriginal people represent only 3.4% of Canada’s population, in 2005 they accounted for 7.5% of all people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada.

In 2006 the proportion of positive HIV test reports attributed to Aboriginal persons was 27.3% (among the provinces and territories that include ethnicity information with their HIV reports). Among Aboriginal people, HIV affects more women and young people than in non-Aboriginal groups.

There are number of social and economic reasons why Aboriginals populations can be at higher risk of HIV/AIDS. Discrimination, poverty, and other destructive effects of the residential school system play a part in the vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among Aboriginal people.

(Source: HIV/AIDS Epi Updates, November 2007, Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 2007.)

For more information on HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal people, check out our article on HIV and Aboriginal Populations.