[IPSM] oct. 26: Ignorance, Indifference and Invisibility: the Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Epidemic

[nora butler burke]

The  Concordia  University  Public Lecture Series on
HIV/AIDS Presents:

LAVERNE  MONETTE
 “Ignorance,  Indifference and Invisibility: 
The Aboriginal  HIV/AIDS Epidemic”
                                      

October 26,  2006.
1455 de  Maisonneuve West 
Room - H-110  (main floor auditorium). 6:00pm
This  event is FREE and open to the public.
For  more info: (514) 848-2424 ext. 7998.
hivaids at alcor.concordia.ca Website:  aids.concordia.ca

Laverne  Monette  is the Executive Director of the
Ontario Aboriginal AIDS Strategy.  She will be
speaking on the effects of  the HIV/AIDS epidemic on
first nation communities in  Canada.  This lecture is
co-sponsored by  Concordia  University’s  Center for
Native Education. 

LaVerne  Monette, B.A., LLB, is  a two-spirit Ojibway
originally from Winnipeg,  Manitoba.  She is the
Executive Director of the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS
Strategy, a  provincial AIDS service organization
whose mandate is to provide HIV/AIDS  information,
health promotion and program and service supports for
off-reserve  Aboriginal people living with and
affected by HIV/AIDS, their partners, families  and
communities. 

She  is a co-founder and past Board Member of
2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations  and of the
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network. She is on the Board
of Directors  for the Prisoners with AIDS Action
Support Network and sits as a member of the  National
Aboriginal Council on HIV/AIDS, the Ontario Advisory
Committee on  HIV/AIDS, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal
Network and is member of the Provincial  Advisory
Committee to the Ontario HIV and Substance Use
Training Program.