The executive director of the Coalition of Quebec Community Organizations for the Fight against AIDS (COCQ-sida) and member of the organizing committee of the International AIDS Conference, Ken Monteith, says that discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is still well presented. Although there have been great medical advances, there are, according to him, “a lot of unresolved things” around the disease.
” There is discrimination in work, for the delivery of services such as in health, there are problems with insurance. »
Infections have seen a significant increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic, deplores Ken Monteith. Many services have been cut.
The $18 million fund announced by the federal government to improve access to self-testing is well received by the executive director of COCQ-sida.
Ken Monteith looks at the different steps that need to be taken if Canada is to reach its target of ending HIV/AIDS by 2030.
