Rehabilitation Adding Life to Years: Dr. Stephanie Nixon on HIV in The Toronto Star

In the article, Dr. Nixon invites people living with HIV to think about how rehabilitation can help them live their fullest life with this disease.

In Canada, just fewer than 100,000 people live with HIV. In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 24 million are infected, and many are dying due to lack of medications. The drugs that have turned HIV into a chronic disease in rich countries have been out of reach to most people in resource-poor countries until recently. Dr. Nixon is working with a small but committed group of health providers to bring rehabilitation to adults and children living with HIV throughout Africa.

She notes that inequality exists in other ways too: In Canada, HIV disproportionately affects indigenous people who are becoming HIV-positive at rates far higher than the national average.

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Medicine adds years to life. Rehabilitation adds life to years.