Unmasking legislative constraints: An institutional ethnography of linkage and engagement in HIV healthcare for African, Caribbean, and Black people in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic significantly impacts African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) immigrants in Canada. Health scholarship has revealed striking injustices within Canada's public healthcare system that restrict access to healthcare and violate the human rights of ACB immigrants living with HIV who are marginalized. We conducted an institutional ethnography to comprehensively understand how HIV healthcare in Ontario is organized and experienced by ACB immigrants, focusing on unjust and discriminatory legislative frameworks and institutional practices regulating access to publicly funded healthcare resources and services. We interviewed 20 ACB immigrants and 15 healthcare workers, including specialists, primary care providers, immigration physicians, and social worker

SUBMITTER: Odhiambo AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021522 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature