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• Disclosing HIV-serodiscordance: a qualitative study of social dynamics (SRC FUNDED)

• ACB Service Provider Perceptions and Understanding of Biomedical Approaches to HIV Prevention (SRC FUNDED)

• HIV, Disability and Rehabilitation: An analysis of Research and Shared Innovation between Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa (SRC FUNDED)

• Making research accessible and stimulating critical reflection through video: engaging heterosexual African, Caribbean and Black men in community responses to HIV in Ontario (SRC FUNDED)

• What is the significance of immigration status and racialization in relation to the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada? (SRC FUNDED)

• Experiences of Trauma and the Initiation of Injecting Drug Use in Ottawa; Community-Based Research Applications of the Vidaview Life Story Board Interview Tool (SRC FUNDED)

• Social and ethical challenges to HIV and tuberculosis health care: expanding the discourse on integration via roundtable discussion at the 6th South African AIDS Conference (External Grant)

• Sharing the Lay of the Land: Developing an APHA Leadership Intervention Initiative(SLL:DALII) (SRC Funded)

• Migration on and off reserve: a social driver of risk/resiliency for HIV and HCV, or a determinant of health among Mi’kmaq people in New Brunswick? (SRC Funded)

• CBR and Ethics of Research – Creating Community Products to Promote Ethical Research Practices with People who Use Illicit Drugs (PWUIDs) (SRC Funded)

• Harm Reduction or Risk Production?: Exploring “Red Zones” in Ottawa’s Byward Market (SRC Funded)

• Positive Sex:  An Innovative Approach to Disclosure in Practice and in Consequence (SRC Funded)

• A National Research Needs and Assets Assessment for HIV Prevention among Gay and other Men who
  Have Sex with Men in Canada (SRC Funded)

• Pilot-testing a group-level intervention to reduce risk for sexual transmission of HIV/STIs among lesbian, bisexual and queer women and other women who have sex with women in Calgary and Toronto (SRC Funded)

• Community Engagement and Ownership in Establishing the Ottawa Cohort Study (SRC Funded)

• Determining the components of a trauma-informed intervention to improve the mental well-being of IRN PHAs (SRC Funded)

• Phase 1: Systematic Review to Support Development of an Intervention to reduce stigma experienced by HIV-Positive Diasporic Black, African, Caribbean and Canadian Women in Canada (SRC Funded)

• Development of a study to examine patterns of HIV infection among persons in Ontario from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean following their arrival in Canada (SRC Funded)

• Understanding the dynamics of HIV serodiscordant relationships in the Canadian social-structural context: Protocol development phase (SRC Funded)

• HIV Prevention and the Criminal Law: An International Research Workshop on the Public Health Impact of Criminalizing HIV Exposure/Transmission The Workshop (SRC Funded)

• Promising HIV Prevention Programs and Interventions for Rural and Remote Regions in Canada:  Services Scoping (SRC Funded)

• Interdisciplinary HIV Pregnancy Research Group: Care and Research to Optimize HIV-positive Women's Health during Preconception, Pregnancy and Motherhood (External Grant)

• New Directions for Critical Perspectives on HIV (SRC Funded)

• iSpeak: Exploring the HIV-related perspectives, needs and challenges of African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) heterosexual men in Ontario (SRC Funded)

• Public Attitudes, Knowledge and Perception of HIV and AIDS in Canada: A Population Study (External Grant)

• Decolonizing, Indigenous and “Southern” Methodologies:   A Scoping Review to Develop Ways of Working Together (SRC Funded)

• Engaging the 21st Century Moccasin Telegraph: Using cyberspace to CAAN's advantage (External Grant)

• Rhetoric or Reality? Biomedical Prevention Tools as a Catalyst for Women’s Sexual Empowerment (SRC Funded)

• A consultation with ACB religious leaders in the GTA: toward developing and testing an intervention to reduce stigma among faith communities (SRC Funded)

What is the significance of immigration status and racialization in relation to the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada? (SRC FUNDED)

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Funding Program: SRC Funded

Research Team:  Laura Bisaillon, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Roberta Timothy, Chiara Gius, Alana Klein, Martin French, Chris Sanders, Saara Greene, Valérie Pierre-Pierre, John Norquay, Cécile Kazatchkine, Johnmark Opondo, San Patten and Anne Marie DiCenso

Abstract

The aim of this project is to engage in systematic preparatory research and team building that will lead to the completion of a CIHR operating grant. The project asks: What is the significance of immigration status and racialization in relation to the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada? The relevance and role that a person’s immigration status plays in contributing to vulnerability to HIV-related criminal prosecution has not been scientifically explored. This study fills this knowledge gap. Anecdotal and scientific findings support the claim that it is necessary and timely to examine the intersections between immigration, racialization and HIV-related criminalization in Canada. A12-month pilot study with four empirical research activities explores answers to the research question. Activities include a) interviews with racialized persons who have faced criminal charges related to their HIV status in Canada from African, Caribbean, and Black communities, and interviews with community workers and service providers who have experience with the latter; b) analysis of criminal case files; c) analysis of media representation of immigration status in criminal non-disclosure cases; and, d) consolidation of a multidisciplinary, multilingual, and multi-sited research team. We intend the knowledge produced through this project to directly contribute to public policy dialogue and reform in Canada. To this end, a strategic three-point knowledge transfer and exchange strategy is outlined. This project fits within the Centre’s central focus on holistic approaches to HIV prevention, and in particular the thematic intersections of HIV prevention and health systems, service and policy, and determinants of health. This project will shed new and valuable light on the processes and consequences of criminalization for a racialized and socially marginalized group of people with HIV. 

Program: Research