OTTAWA — Activists marked World AIDS Day on Monday by calling on the federal government to honour a Trudeau government promise to reform the laws on HIV disclosure, and to provide enough funding to get Canada’s efforts to end the pandemic back on track.

The HIV Legal Network says Canada’s stalled progress on preventing new HIV cases — especially among Indigenous people in the Prairies — is costing governments millions of dollars.

“We have failed to meet these targets by virtually every metric,” the group’s co-director Sandra Ka Hon Chu told a news conference last Thursday on Parliament Hill.

She cited data from the Edmonton-based Institute of Health Economics, which pegged the average lifetime cost of a new HIV infection at roughly $1.44 million. While that sum is mostly due to lost pro

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