Internationally, AIDS is a heterosexual disease, and the group most at risk of contracting AIDS is young, heterosexual females, because they believe that they are not at risk.

To achieve these objectives it would also be appropriate to take action against all forms of precarious employment, including unwritten work contracts, those of less than 10 working hours per week and short fixed-term contracts. That is not to mention jobs in which minimal health and safety requirements are ignored and where there is consequently a high accident rate and a greater risk of exposure to disease and various hazards.

Similarly, what form of home care program (short-term acute care, needs assessment, or long-term care in the home) is needed in the field of mental illness and addiction?

Health Services: The members of CHANNAL expressed a need for added case managers, community support workers including trained peer support workers, more doctors, more health care clinics, increased early psychosis intervention programs, increased education and prevention workshops for teens to reduce bullying and suicides and added short stay assessment units similar to the short stay unit in St. John's — the shot in the arm that we need here in Newfoundland and Labrador, and addresses the link to mental illness and addictions and the need for an increased program for mental health and addiction services and more ...[+++] generic community-based health care.