Another Egads!!

From earlier this year

"Danita Wahpoosewyan doesn't know how she acquired HIV, but she tested positive three years ago.

"I didn't believe it," Wahpoosewyan recalled of being told she was positive. "I thought I would never, ever get it."

Danita Wahpoosewyan is a Regina community worker living with HIV.Danita Wahpoosewyan is a Regina community worker living with HIV. (CBC)

But Wahpoosewyan was leading a high-risk lifestyle: injecting drugs with shared needles and in a relationship with a man who was HIV positive."

Years ago when I was living in Northern Saskatchewan, the warnings were already being raised that the Aboriginal population would be hit hard. There were several gay men in the town where I worked. All of them knew the risks. They talked about it frequently, but none of them practiced safe sex. I guess the attitude of the woman in the first story prevailed. And right now, on John Gormley, they've mentioned that half a million free injection needles are handed out each year in Prince Albert. WTF!! Are they passing them around to their friends to be used more than once? Half a million needles is bad enough as it is, but it sure doesn't seem to be working, does it.

And now this!! Dire HIV Warning

"Medical officer of health for Prince Albert Parkland Dr. Khami Chokani says between 15 and 30 per cent of the province's First nation population could be killed by the virus if something isn't done.

Considering aboriginals make up about 14 percent of Saskatchewan's population that would be thousands and thousands of HIV related deaths."

Amazing. If health care is a treaty "right", when is it gonna be the time to talk about the "responsibilities" that accompany those rights? There are consequences, folks. And health care is only one area where the ever growing plethora of treaty "rights" never seem to have any responsibilities attached to them.