A panel of Indigenous people living with HIV spoke at Health Canada’s National Conference on HIV/AIDS in 1991 and laid the seeds for the creation of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN). CAAN has decades of history as an incorporated non-profit organization whose mandate has evolved from a primary HIV and AIDS focus to include STBBI, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, harm reduction, mental health, and aging. CAAN provides a national forum for dialogue on these issues, and responds to needs identified by Indigenous peoples, through research and programming, on prevention, education, promotion of wise practices, training, and by supporting and implementing community developed responses.

CAAN provides accurate, up-to-date and culturally responsive resources to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit leadership, organizations and communities in Canada and around the world. We are a national not-for-profit based on Treaty 4 Territory in Fort Qu’appelle, Saskatchewan.