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United Press International; Monday December 1, 1997 - 2:37 PM EST
Allan Rock made the announcement today on the occasion of World AIDS Day.
He says Canada has set itself six goals in its stragegy against the spread of AIDS.
These include measures "to prevent the spread of HIV," the virus responsible for AIDS, and "to find and to provide effective vaccines, drugs and therapy."
The goals also include findig a cure, and ensuring "treatment, care and support, for people living with HIV and AIDS, and their care-givers, families and friends."
Rock says Canada wants to "minimize the adverse impact of HIV and AIDS on individuals and communities," and "get at the social and the economic factors that increase the risk of infection."
He says a ministerial council on AIDS, still to be set up, will advise him on how the money can best be spent.
The death toll from AIDS in Canada has risen to nearly 12,000 since the epidemic first erupted in the early 1980s, and nine Canadians are believed to be infected with HIV every day,
The federal government says new groups being infected with the virus include young injection drug users who have dropped their guard in the belief that AIDS is curable.
Other victims include women and Aboriginal groups.
Several groups, including the Canadian AIDS Aboriginal Network and the Canadian Association for AIDS Research have criticized the program.
A spokesman for the Canadian AIDS Society say the government is trying to do "a lot more work" without providing sufficient funds for the program.
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