News Release

2003-75
September 22, 2003
For immediate release

Health Minister McLellan appoints new members to the Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS

OTTAWA - The Honourable Anne McLellan, Minister of Health, announced today the appointment of four new members to the Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS.

Created in 1988, the Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS advises the Minister of Health on aspects of HIV/AIDS that have a national scope. The Council's membership reflects a broad range of experience and knowledge, and includes several Canadians living with HIV/AIDS.

"I am confident the Council will continue to provide sound advice on how, with the collaboration of partners throughout the country, we can develop strategies to counter the rising number of HIV infections and strengthen Canada's response to this epidemic," said Minister McLellan.

The new members of the Ministerial Council are Marie Anésie Harérimana, Executive Director of the Centre de ressources et d'interventions en santé et sexualité (CRISS), Bob Mills, board member of the Canadian AIDS Society and of the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS North America, Kenneth Monteith, Executive Director of the AIDS Community Care Montréal and Dr. Anita Rachlis, professor at the University of Toronto.

Reappointed to the Council are Louise Binder, Margaret Dykeman, Richard Elliott, Dionne A. Falconer, Jacqueline C. Gahagan, Michael Grant, Barney Hickey, René Lavoie, Lindy Samson, Sheena Sargeant, and Art Zoccole. Louise Binder and Dr Samson have been renewed as co-chairs of the Council.

To complete the membership, two ex-officio members remain on the Council representing the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee on AIDS and Health Canada, through the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Population and Public Health Branch.

For more information on the new and reappointed members of the Ministerial Council, please see the attached biographies.

For more information on the Ministerial Council on HIV/AIDS:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/aids-sida/hiv_aids/can_strat/ministerial/index.html

Biographical Notes of Council Members:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/aids-sida/hiv_aids/can_strat/ministerial/members.html

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