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The Impacts of the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure on Indigenous People

23 Apr 2018

It is also evident that there is a need for broader research on the experiences of Indigenous people who are HIV positive and that this research needs to centre Indigenous communities and Indigenous people who are HIV positive. [...] Although It is important to acknowledge that other this report is based on a case study of people of colour who are HIV positive also Regina, Saskatchewan, the findings of the face HIV stigma and criminalization in research have broader implications beyond distinct and difficult ways.1 There is much to this one region and the recommendations in be learned from the intersections of racism this repo [...] The second 72% of these cases, and Indigenous females most common reason for HIV infection made up 88% of all new female cases.15 among Indigenous people is heterosexual sex.9 The high rates of HIV that Indigenous Between 2005 and 2014, the Saskatoon people are facing are related to historical region represented 40% of HIV cases in the and ongoing colonial oppression which province, followed by th [...] HIV rates in the province have in this city and there is a need for increased been increasing over the past couple of HIV supports and capacity building.17 years.11 The national rates for HIV in 2016 were 6.4 per 100,000, whereas the 2016 This case study of Regina is not meant to be rates for Saskatchewan were 14.5 per representative of all Indigenous people 100,000 – more than double the national [...] They note for example that charges related to HIV non-disclosure in 200 “[s]exual activity with an HIV positive cases in Canada since 1989.”34 Indigenous person poses a negligible risk of people represent 6% of the 184 people transmission where that person is taking charged, though it is noteworthy that the HIV treatment as prescribed and has race/ethnicity of 34% of the 184 people is maintained a
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29
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Ottawa, ON, CA

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