Yesterday was the third lecture of Concordia University’s Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS.
As Doris Peltier delivered her moving story, the audience sat still, absorbing every word of it.
Back in 2002, this Aboriginal woman from the Wikwemikong Unceded First Nations reserve in Ontario was diagnosed with AIDS.
After a difficult childhood of losses and abuse, she decided that she wouldn’t let the disease overcome her.
Ever since she received her diagnosis, she has been working as an activist for the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network at the local, national and international level.
She has been giving conferences to share her experience and give hope to those suffering from the same disease.