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By Stephen Hui, British Columbia Bureau

VANCOUVER (CUP) — Although research shows that public awareness of the risks of AIDS is in decline, the disease continues to infect and kill thousands of people everyday, speakers told a crowd gathered to mark World AIDS Day in Vancouver.

About 100 participants lit candles in memory of those lost to the disease outside the Dr. Peter Centre, which cares for people living with human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune defi- ciency syndrome. A dome consisting of 8,219 lights representing the estimated number people who die of AIDS everyday worldwide was extinguished dur- ing the Dec. 1 ceremony.

“AIDS has not gone away,” said Maxine Davis, executive director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation. “More and more and more are becom-

ing very seriously ill. Yet more and more of the

public seems to think AIDS is no longer a cause to even support.”

According to a report released by the federal gov- ernment on World AIDS Day, 56,000 people were living with HIV in Canada at the end of last year. That's up 12 per cent from three years earlier. Studies. show that ignorance and misinformation surrounding AIDS in addition to stigma and dis- crimination associated with the disease are wide- spread, especially among the country’s youth.

Davis said AIDS drugs are becoming more toxic to many whose lives they are intended to extend. More and more people are simply no longer taking, them, she said. att ‘is not something that. is easier to live-withy because of treatments,” said AIDS advocate Tom McAulay, a board member of the Dr. Peter Foundation. “It is not something that anybody should ever want.” =

“Only 33 per cent of women who paid into the unemployment insur- ance program will be able to bene- fit from it”

One speaker said he doesn’t even know how he contracted HIV; he could have received it from a blood transfusion, fighting, intravenous drug use, or sex. He urged people to use condoms during sex and clean equipment when taking drugs.

Reverend Terry Shea from the White Rock Centre for Positive Living invited the crowd to utter | the names: of loved ones lost to the disease. The dozens of names spoken into the night air com- bined to create a solemn, yet powerful moment.

After the ceremony, participants dispersed into downtown Vancouver, still holding their burning candles.

Over 42 million people are living with HIV worldwide. The United Nations estimates that HIV

infected 5 million and AIDS killed 3.1 million last

year. It predicts that more than 50 million. will be living with the disease by 2005. No cure has been found.

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Finance Minister] Paul Martin has achieved in the past seven years, is equal almost to the dollar to the sur- plus that has been removed from the unemployment insurance fund this year and put towards the payment of the debt, he said.

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MONTREAL (CUP) — NDP Leader Jack Layton. criticized. the federal government’s “failure” to reduce child poverty last Tuesday.

It’s time to go back to that [unem- ployment] insurance program and

_recalibrate it for the people who

need it, particularly the women, so that they can raise their kids,” said Layton, speaking to an enthusiastic audience of more than a 100 in Montreal.

Only 33 per cent of women who

- paid into the unemployment insur-

ance program will be able to benefit

from it, said Layton. This is a sub-

stantial decrease from 1989, when 66 per cent of contributing women could benefit from the program. Therein lies the cause of child poverty, asserted the NDP leader.

And, according to Layton, it was the government that pocketed the surplus of money.

The debt reduction the {former

goals, he said, calling for a grassroots approach from-the federal govern- ment.

As a remedy to the housing crisis afflicting the nation, Layton pro- posed the creation of 200,000 affordable housing units across Canada over a period of 10 years. “A roof: over one’s head is a fundamen- tal right,” he said.