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… Of all the topics we’ve ever had to talk about, this is one of the hardest,” said Zoccole, who is also president of a Toronto-based organization that serves gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered aboriginal, or “two-spirited”, people. “I’ve been discriminated against for being aboriginal and for being gay,” said Zoccole. He said that, while gay men used to be one of the most at-risk groups in First Nations communities, today it’s women.
Mika Ekomiak, who has been living with AIDS for nine years, contracted the disease through unsafe sex. Her partner didn’t tell her he was positive, and her judgement was clouded by alcohol, she said. “There were a lot of times people were putting me down. I wasn’t taking care of myself,” she said. “Those were dark days.”
Ekomiak said she quit drinking when was diagnosed and now feels “very wonderful, very healthy.”
“I want to share my experience and help other people” she said.
Dr. Howard Njoo of the Public Health Agency of Canada listed a number of factors that determine risk of infection: poverty, sex work, incarceration and substance abuse.

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In the United States, especially White America, AIDS is often associated with the gay male community, where it remains a serious epidemic. Yet in 2005, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, 9708 infected women accounted for 26% of the total number of AIDS cases. AIDS was the leading cause of death for African American women between the ages of 25 and 34 years.
Worldwide, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, in 2008 women comprised more than half of all AIDS cases, or 50.3%. In Sub-Saharan Africa women accounted for 60% of all AIDS cases, in North Africa and the Middle East 54.2%, and 32.3% in Latin America.
While many women have contracted AIDS through intravenous drug use, it’s estimated that 80% became infected through unprotected sex with men. Women engaged in sex work are especially vulnerable in this respect.

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Lack of preventive steps raises HIV risk
Mahbubur Rahman Khan
Reluctance to use condom and abrupt use of syringe increase the risk of HIV infection and spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in the country.
Poverty-ridden women, who engage in sex work, become more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and STD as sex buyers show reluctance to use condom.
Sex workers could not compel customers to use condom in the fear of losing money or assault from the customers. Chief of sex workers also do not compel sex buyers to use condom fearing loss in business, investigation revealed.
Aklima Begum, a leader of Kandapara Brothel of Tangail, told this Correspondent that she knows about HIV and STD and supplied condom to the sex workers but very few customers use condom.
Customers are not only reluctant to use condom rather they often get furious on workers and assault them, she said.

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The NFL is keeping mum on the latest developments in the trash talking episode between Denver coach Josh McDaniels and San Diego linebacker Shaun Phillips. Phillips said after the Chargers’ victory at Denver Nov. 22 that McDaniels had sneered “We own you!’’ during warmups. McDaniels repeatedly declined to tell his side of the story but in the face of mounting criticism, he told ESPN over the weekend that Phillips had confronted and taunted him. The coach said his response was meant to imply that McDaniels’s former team, the Patriots, had always made Phillips eat his words. Both have said they are sorry, although McDaniels indicated the Broncos asked the NFL to look into the encounter, according to ESPN. League spokesman Greg Aiello said, “We are not commenting on the report.’’ . . . Panthers linebacker Jon Beason has been arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from an incident at a Charlotte strip club. The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office said Beason was arrested yesterday afternoon and released on a written note to appear in court. Police had been investigating an incident said to have involved Beason Nov. 15.

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