Seeing Red: HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada

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What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers who look ahead to the new and complex challenges associated with HIV/AIDS and Canadian society. In addition to representing a diversity of voices and perspectives, Seeing Red reflects on historical responses to HIV/AIDS in Canada. Among the specific issues addressed are the over-representation of Indigenous peoples among those living with HIV, the criminalization of HIV, and barriers to health and support services, particularly as experienced by vulnerable and marginalized populations. The editors and contributors seek to show that Canada has been neither uniquely compassionate nor proactive when it comes to supporting those living with HIV/AIDS. Instead, this remains a critical area of public policy, one fraught with challenges as well as possibilities. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction • Michael Orsini, Suzanne Hindmarch, and Marilou Gagnon Part One: Systems 1 The Rights Response Is (Still) Required: Preserving the Human Rights Core of HIV Exceptionalism in Pursuing the End of AIDS • Richard Elliott 2 HIV Criminalization as “Risk Management”: On the Importance of Structural Stigma • Marilou Gagnon and Christine Vézina 3 Institutionalizing Risk in the “Daddy State”: Carceral Spaces as HIV Risk Environments • Jennifer M. Kilty 4 Feeling Sick, Looking Cured!: The Iatrogenic Effects of HIV Public Health Policy on HIV-Positive Gay Men • Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco Part Two: Services 5 Aging without a Net: Policy Barriers Facing Older Adults Living with HIV in Canada • Kate Murzin and Charles Furlotte 6 Evaluation Policy at AIDS Service Organizations: Managing Multiple Accountabilities • Nicole R. Greenspan 7 Living and Aging with HIV: Tiptoeing through a Pan-Canadian Policy Maze • Ron Rosenes 8 Charting the Course: Exploring HIV, Employment, and Income Security through an Episodic Disability Lens • Wendy Porch and Tammy C. Yates Part Three: Populations 9 Governing Participation: A Critical Analysis of International and Canadian Texts Promoting the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS • Alex McClelland, Adrian Guta, and Nicole R. Greenspan 10 What a Mess! Viewing Trans Women Living with HIV as Managers of Policy Mess • Natalie Duchesne 11 “Good Medicine”: Decolonizing HIV Policy for Indigenous Women in Canada • Tracey Prentice, Doris Peltier, Elizabeth Benson, Kerrigan Johnson, Kecia Larkin, Krista Shore, and Renée Masching 12 Do It in a Good Way: Recommendations for Research and Policy in Indigenous Communities Aging with HIV/AIDS • Chelsea Gabel, Randy Jackson, and Chaneesa Ryan 13 On the Experience of Pregnancy: Stories of HIV-Positive Refugee Women in Canada • Teresa Chulach, Marilou Gagnon, and Dave Holmes 14 HIV and Hepatitis C Co-Infection: Pathways to Care, Pathways to Advocacy − A Conversation with Colleen Price • Colleen Price 15 AIDS Activism: Remembering Resistance versus Socially Organized Forgetting • Gary Kinsman Conclusion • Suzanne Hindmarch, Michael Orsini, and Marilou Gagnon Contributors Index