It’s well known that the rate of AIDS infection in some African countries is disproportionately high. But a new study has found there’s a similarly high rate among African immigrants in Canada.
The causes are complex and the effects are devastating. And now members of the immigrant community are calling for information and action from the federal government.
Vuyiswa Keyi may be far from her former home in Zimbabwe but can’t leave the tragedy behind. A sister and brother-in-law both died of AIDS. And hers is just one story.
“I don’t think there’s any African person who wants to be honest who can actually say there’s no one at all in their family who hasn’t been touched by this disease,” Keyi says.
Keyi who is a nurse, says a growing number of people from African countries who live in Canada are being diagnosed with HIV — a trend so disturbing she and others activists asked doctors to research the problem.
The result: a University of Toronto study found a disproportionate rate of HIV infection among recent immigrants of African descent — up to 60 times that of other Canadians, as many as 450 new cases of HIV a year.
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1 prominentYYZ // Mar 27, 2006 at 10:19 am
the canadian immigration dept. has a duty to keep all people with mental, contagious and serious diseases out, but they let everyone in regardless of consequences. Healthy ,white and skilled europeans are dissuaded by our embassies and consulates to apply for immigration in favour of unskilled sick and useless third world immigrants. Bon Chance Canada…
2 marshmouse // Mar 27, 2006 at 2:10 pm
stop all african immigration send the ones here back.
3 Identitor // Mar 27, 2006 at 6:25 pm
but if you follow the mind our comrades from Identitaires *France*, the problem is with muslim and exclusivly with islam’s danger.
Just explain them that blacks are more dangerous for our society (race mixing and HIV transmission) and our security (violence like in MTL and TO) than with POTENTIAL assault from any muslim in a mosque or against a building. so !
any people who knows and recognizes clearly this problem can confirm that the problem is racial but not religious…
And the first danger comes often from blacks…
4 roach // Mar 29, 2006 at 12:43 pm
HIV transmission is color blind and does not have a racial identity. It affects heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, married, single, children, men and women. This topic should instead be focused on the need for education in the use of condoms, clean needles, proper screening of blood from all donors and ongoing funding to research ways to halt, eradicate and prevent transmission. The level of ignorance displayed on this topic leads me to believe that the only disease running rampant and spreading throughout Canada is ignorance and racism. The amount energy spent by racists in order to justify the simple fact that their hearts, have and always will be full of hate, is unbelievable.
5 nationalistrus // Mar 29, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Below are some facts from a black web site!
http://www.bcoa.org/facts.html#Statistics
• African Americans living in San Francisco have the highest* prevalence rate of HIV at 4.7% followed by whites at 3.7% Latinos 2.4% Native Americans at 2.0% followed by Asian Pacific Islanders at 3%.
• For African American men who have sex with men HIV prevalence is estimated at 55% overall (SFDPH 2001a). Among anonymous testers, prevalence was 9.7% (SFDPHb). Another study found a 29% prevalence (Catina et al 2001). Collectively, this data suggests that African Americans have the highest prevalence of any MSM population.
• The HIV/AIDS infection rate among Black men is 6 times that of white men and the rate among Black women is 16 times that of white women
• The number of men with AIDS per 100,000 population includes:
Blacks – 125
Hispanics – 58
Whites – 18
American Indian/Alaska native – 16
Asian/Pacific Islander – 9
6 prominentYYZ // Mar 31, 2006 at 4:54 pm
If homosexuality and drug use would be severely punished and third world immigration curtailed, then we would have very little aids to worry about. Aids is not and never was a main stream disease. Education is a waste of time and has done very little to stop buggery and drug use or even indiscriminate sex with high risk targets.
7 prominentYYZ // Apr 10, 2006 at 3:55 pm
aids creates incurable romantics…..
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