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The Aboriginal Canada Portal closed February 12, 2013. The Digital Aboriginals of True North Turtle Island have intervened. Please visit this web page for more information.
Diabetes and Chronic Diseases
- Communicable Disease Control Program
- The goal of the communicable disease control program is to control and prevent communicable diseases in the NWT. This program provides services to groups and individuals who are infected with, or at risk of contracting, a communicable disease.
Source: Government of Northwest Territories; Health and Social Services- Don't Say Marmalade When you Mean Jam: HIV/AIDS Information for Aboriginal Elders
- The booklet was created with the goal of educating elders about safer sex by looking at the barriers to this discussion.
- Source: Canadian Women's Health Network
- Immunization
- Northerners often travel to other parts of the world where these diseases still kill many people. Some of these diseases are still found in the NWT and other parts of Canada. People who aren't immunized can very easily catch and spread diseases like measles and polio.
- Source: Government of Northwest Territories; Health and Social Services
