HIV/AIDS
In January 2005, the Government of Canada launched the  Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada and committed to pursuing a Government of Canada-wide approach to addressing HIV/AIDS. The Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada signals a renewed and strengthened federal role in the Canadian response to HIV/AIDS. The Federal Initiative - a partnership of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Health Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Correctional Service Canada - will focus on addressing the complex social, human rights, biological and community barriers that continue to fuel the epidemic.
Recommendations from program reviews, evaluations and other consultative exercises, have signaled the need for the federal government to: develop discrete approaches to addressing the epidemic for people living with HIV/AIDS, gay men, injection drug users, Aboriginal people, prison inmates, youth and women at risk for HIV infection, and people from countries where HIV is endemic; to increase government collaboration at all levels – federal, provincial, territorial and municipal; to support the use of social marketing initiatives to increase public awareness of HIV/AIDS and encourage those who may be part of the hidden epidemic to access HIV/AIDS programs; to encourage greater integration of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment interventions with those of other diseases, as appropriate; to more broadly engage federal departments and agencies in the response, such as Citizen and Immigration Canada, and those that have mandates related to housing, disability, social justice, employment and other determinants of health; to increase its engagement in the global response to the epidemic, and; to improve the communication of outcomes achieved from federal investments in HIV/AIDS.
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