Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am very pleased to hear that. I will say again that a simple and fast thing would be to have more accessibility to free condoms. I think that could be done relatively quickly. Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask one other question relating to policy on disclosure. The information provided by Dr. Gilchrist indicates that cases are now wide spread in the regions of the Northwest Territories. I fully respect the sensitivity of any suggestion that will disclose names. I think we want to encourage people to come forward to be tested knowing that they will not be risking exposure by name. However, I would like to ask the Minister, now that the epidemic, or disease, is spreading and seems to be present in many regions of the territories, I wonder whether consideration should be given to change the disclosure policy -- that would be disclosure of cases by region, not names.
The reason I suggest this, Mr. Chairman, is we had a very brave woman from Iqaluit who came forward, talked about her disease, went to schools and did her very best in the last month of her life to warn others about this terrible disease. She talked about the dangers of unprotected sex and how drunkenness can lead to carelessness. I believe this had a big impact in our region and, perhaps, in other regions. I believe, and I talked to people about it even in the bars, they started thinking about the issue as being a real issue because this brave young woman identified herself.
I think there are other regions where the penny may not yet have dropped. If the Minister of Health was to consider amending the policy to state that we have around 34 cases of AIDS/HIV in the territories and they are located in the following regions, for instance, the Inuvik region has a case or several cases. I think people, who may be pretending that everything is all right in their region and that it is just the Baffin or Iqaluit, may start to think it is closer to home than they might otherwise think. This may require Cabinet consideration, but I would like to ask the Minister if consideration could be given to regionally revealing case numbers statistics, but, of course, not names. I think this was something the Baffin health board had taken upon themselves to do a number of years ago. At that time, it was felt premature, perhaps because there were so few cases and it was felt it might possibly lead to identification of individuals in that region, but those days are over. From what I have heard, there is enough of a proliferation throughout the territories, that it may be timely and may help the public become aware if the policy was reviewed in that direction. Can the Minister at least entertain that idea? Thank you.