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Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada
African, Caribbean and Black immigrants face persistent legislative barriers to accessing healthcare services in Canada. This Institutional Ethnography examines how structural violence and exclusionary legislative frameworks restrict the right to HIV healthcare access for many Black immigrants. We c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9152595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35380883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323221082958 |
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author | Odhiambo, Apondi J. Forman, Lisa Nelson, LaRon E. O'Campo, Patricia Grace, Daniel |
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description | African, Caribbean and Black immigrants face persistent legislative barriers to accessing healthcare services in Canada. This Institutional Ethnography examines how structural violence and exclusionary legislative frameworks restrict the right to HIV healthcare access for many Black immigrants. We conducted semi-structured interviews with Black immigrants living with HIV (n = 20) and healthcare workers in Toronto, Canada (n = 15), and analyzed relevant policy texts. Findings revealed that exclusionary immigration and healthcare legislation shaping and regulating immigrants’ right to health restricted access to public resources, including health insurance and HIV healthcare and related services, subjecting Black immigrants with precarious status to structural violence. Healthcare providers and administrative staff worked as healthcare gatekeepers. These barriers undermine public health efforts of advancing health equity and ending HIV “while leaving no one behind.” We urge continued policy reforms in Canada’s immigration and healthcare systems regarding HIV care access for Canada’s precarious status immigrants. |
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spelling | pubmed-91525952022-06-01 Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada Odhiambo, Apondi J. Forman, Lisa Nelson, LaRon E. O'Campo, Patricia Grace, Daniel Qual Health Res Research Articles African, Caribbean and Black immigrants face persistent legislative barriers to accessing healthcare services in Canada. This Institutional Ethnography examines how structural violence and exclusionary legislative frameworks restrict the right to HIV healthcare access for many Black immigrants. We conducted semi-structured interviews with Black immigrants living with HIV (n = 20) and healthcare workers in Toronto, Canada (n = 15), and analyzed relevant policy texts. Findings revealed that exclusionary immigration and healthcare legislation shaping and regulating immigrants’ right to health restricted access to public resources, including health insurance and HIV healthcare and related services, subjecting Black immigrants with precarious status to structural violence. Healthcare providers and administrative staff worked as healthcare gatekeepers. These barriers undermine public health efforts of advancing health equity and ending HIV “while leaving no one behind.” We urge continued policy reforms in Canada’s immigration and healthcare systems regarding HIV care access for Canada’s precarious status immigrants. SAGE Publications 2022-04-05 2022-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9152595/ /pubmed/35380883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323221082958 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Odhiambo, Apondi J. Forman, Lisa Nelson, LaRon E. O'Campo, Patricia Grace, Daniel Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada |
title | Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The
Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with
Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada |
title_full | Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The
Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with
Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada |
title_fullStr | Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The
Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with
Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The
Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with
Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada |
title_short | Legislatively Excluded, Medically Uninsured and Structurally Violated: The
Social Organization of HIV Healthcare for African, Caribbean and Black Immigrants with
Precarious Immigration Status in Toronto, Canada |
title_sort | legislatively excluded, medically uninsured and structurally violated: the
social organization of hiv healthcare for african, caribbean and black immigrants with
precarious immigration status in toronto, canada |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9152595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35380883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323221082958 |
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