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An Aboriginal woman wearing a sleeveless shirt, tall collar covers her neck. She has long hair and looks concerned and unhappy. There is a farm and black cloud in sky and storm behind the farm in the background of her. Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, items CN032_1 and CN032_2 (back). On the bottom of the poster is a picture of a smiling man with baseball hat and goatee beard and mustache, wearing a white t-shirt with inscription, Hockey …on it and sitting with a smiling baby next to additional inscription: My name is Jake Linklater. I am 32 years old and I am an Ojibway from the Cape Croker Band in Wiarton, Ontario. I worked at the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network in Ottawa for two years and the experience changed my life. My wife and I went home to the reserve and fought to have an HIV/AIDS curriculum put into our school so that our children could be educated about the disease. When I lived on the reserve, people with HIV/AIDS weren’t a big priority for me. When a woman within our community found out she was infected, the biggest thing we all thought was who was with her, who slept with who, and am I OK? That same woman didn’t get much help on our reserve, and I didn’t really care one way or the other about her. I believed if you were infected it was tour own fault – for choosing a different lifestyle, for not being married. Working with people with HIV/AIDS has opened us up to be more compassionate and understanding and hopefully we can change how people on our reserve think about HIV and those who live with this disease. For more information on Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS call the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network toll-free at 1-800-285-2226 or go to our webpage at WWW.caan.ca. Aboriginal AIDS awareness
Type
image
Identifier
CN032_2 CN032_1 ark:/21198/zz0002wtjp
Language
English
Subject
Awareness Discrimination Fear Indigenous peoples--Canada AIDS (Disease)--Information services
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