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Canada: Migrants face significant healthcare gaps despite universal coverage promises
Source: The Hills Times

Canada: Migrants face significant healthcare gaps despite universal coverage promises

1 August 2024
Janet Butler-McPhee, Anne-Rachelle Boulanger, and Nadia Fyfe Canada prides itself on being a welcoming country with a universal healthcare system — and is lauded for both around the world. But for people without citizenship, significant healthcare gaps exist and access...
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Canada: HIV status at the centre of legal fight against immigration barriers
Source: HIV Legal Network

Canada: HIV status at the centre of legal fight against immigration barriers

17 April 2024
The HIV Legal Network and a client of Battista Migration Law Group are challenging the constitutionality of Canada’s “excessive demand” regime in federal court. On February 2, 2024, we filed legal arguments and materials challenging the decision of Immigration, Refugees...
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Canada: Advocates call for end to Canada's discriminatory HIV partner notification policy
Source: HALCO, HIV Legal Network, and COCQ-SIDA

Canada: Advocates call for end to Canada's discriminatory HIV partner notification policy

21 June 2023
This statement can be attributed to HALCO, the HIV Legal Network, and COCQ-SIDA. June 21, 2023 – The HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario (HALCO), HIV Legal Network, and La Coalition des organismes communautaires québécois de lutte contre le sida...
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