I don't have an exact list of provinces, but I can tell you that it does differ. Right now, if you're living with HIV in Canada, if you live in a province like Alberta, you're covered through the provincial public program. If you live in other provinces, like Manitoba or even Ontario, it's not done in that same way. It does definitely place a disproportionate burden on people living with HIV.
That's why one of the recommendations that has come through different people—either through pharmacare or looking at a different mechanism, which I believe the federal government has done around hep C cure drugs—is some sort of mechanism where Health Canada or the Public Health Agency reimburses certain provinces for that. Definitely HIV medication is something that should be looked at—especially for treatment but also for prevention.
