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Besides abstinence, using a condom is the most effective way of preventing the spread of HIV and AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases, if you use it correctly. Here's how:
1. Use a new latex (rubber) condom each and every time you have intercourse.
2. Open the package, being careful not to tear the condom. (Partners with long or sharp nails should pay…
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1. HIV and AIDS are the same thing.
Not exactly. AIDS is the end result of HIV infection. (Human Immunodefiency Virus) shelters itself in the body as it slowly goes to work. The virus attacks the immune system which is supposed to protect the body against disease. But HIV is so powerful that it eventually destroys the immune system, leaving the body open to many…
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Women are particularly at risk of getting HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, for a number of reasons.
"The cards seem to be stacked against them," says Dr. Bryce Larke, Medical Director of Alberta Health's Provincial AIDS program.
First, studies and experience indicate that the spread of HIV is more likely to occur from men to women than from women to men. Second…
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"Condom Granny" Jackie McPherson is well known in many Aboriginal communities for her down-to-earth workshops on how to prevent infection from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
"I talk from the heart," says the grandmother from Manitoba's Little Black River First Nation.
"We want elderly people involved," McPherson explains about the fight against AIDS in…
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Giving safe care to people with HIV of AIDS in the community is largely common sense. Everyday good hygiene will usually be enough.
HIV, the virus that precedes AIDS, can be passed in these ways.
- HIV can be found in blood, semen and vaginal fluids of infected people.
- Anyone infected with HIV can transmit the virus to another person through vaginal and…
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Nolan Mamakeesic is not much different from you.
He's 26 years old. He grew up in Sandy Lake and left there to go to high school in Sioux Lookout, Ont. when he was 15 years old. He got into a minor scuffle with the law soon after and didn't finish Grade 12. He likes the outdoors, but after getting a taste of town and city life, he finds going back to Sandy Lake a little…
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More than a century ago, at treaty time in 1876, Plains Cree Chief Ahtahkakoop had a vision.
"Let us not think of ourselves, but of our children's children," said the powerful chief to his people.
With the buffalo gone, Ahtahkakoop saw education as the means of providing the children with the tools they would need in the white man's world. He saw to it the reserve…
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The Chiefs Economic Development Advisory Council (CEDAC) has divided into an exciting, new venture in Native arts and crafts. Beginning this month, CEDAC will be compiling a comprehensive list of all Alberta Native artisans and arts and crafts dealers. This database is the first step in the planning and development of a unique Native arts and crafts incubator to be located in…
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Sam Bob never really intended to be an actor. In fact, the Vancouver Native had been working toward his degree on criminology at Simon Fraser University when his sister dragged him to audit for a summer theatre project. That was five years ago, and he hasn't looked back since.
During a recent tour through Edmonton to promote his latest movie, Road to Saddle River, Bob…
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The time for Native film actors has been a long time coming. But during the last three or four years movie goers may have noticed a much greater number of Native actors and roles finding their way onto the big screen.
Beginning with movies like Dances With Wolves and Thunderheart, opportunities for Native actors in mainstream Hollywood productions have never been better…
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In his third year of junior football, Richard Sansregret injured his back so badly that he quit football, and all athletics, for good. Four years later, though, the 5'9" Metis man, now 24, decided that he wanted to take up sports again. He started playing indoor soccer, and he's now looking forward to becoming one of Canada's top officials over the next few years.
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When Angela Chalmers was a little girl, her great uncle had a dream while working in the fields one day.
The dream was about a woman and a storm and the words walk fast, walk fast. And it so it was that when Chalmers began showing potential as a young runner she was named Dusnanwe at a special ceremony. The name means woman who walks fast.
Special ceremonies were…
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The Indian Rodeo Cowboy Association, the longest running association of its kind in Canada, will be hosting its year-end 1994 Finals Rodeo here at the Agriplex, Oct. 7, 8. 9.
The three-day rodeo will feature the top 10 contestants in the final standings in all major events, including saddle bronc, bareback and bull riding. The timed events are calf roping, steer…
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What makes Peigan a special place is my attachment to past experiences with my family, relatives and friends.
It is the place where my grandparents and parents live. I remember my older brother and I walking with Grandma in the spring to pick duck eggs. My grandmother cooked them for us with the ducklings starting to form which we thought was wonderful.
I remember…
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A 20-year-old provincial program salvaging deer and moose hides for artisans has gained new momentum in Ontario.
Hats for Hides collects hides for use by artisans through an exchange program with Native and non-Native hunters. Formerly run by the Ministry of National Resources, the program had experienced a slump in interest, dropping from 40,000 hides being taken in to…