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HARP-252 |
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Stacked against us: HIV/AIDS statistics and women |
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Canadian Woman Studies, December 2001, Vol. 21, No. 2; Pg. 6(4); ISSN: 0713-3235, 03220724 |
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2001 |
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Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, gender equality, human rights, woman, health, health care, HIV/AIDS |
Abstract: |
According to Health Canada, at the end of 2000, women in Canada accounted for 13.8 per cent of cumulative positive HIV tests and 7.6 per cent of AIDS cases among adults (Health Canada). Statistics such as these, which describe the incidence and prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women in Canada, have been available for well over a decade. Unfortunately, these statistics do not always accurately or adequately describe the reality of women’s experience rather, they simply reflect the way we choose to conceptualize and subsequently measure risk in order to facilitate the categorization and labeling of certain individuals and groups. Behind the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS is a story that women are “dying to tell.” The story begins with two universal truths. The first is that women have been relegated to positions of social, political, and economic subordination that are mediated by race and class. The second is that these constraints inhibit women’s capacity to protect themselves from exposure to HIV. |
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Keywords: Canada, cultural rights, economic, gender equality, health, health care, HIV/AIDS, human rights, social, woman