Re: Immigrate to Canada with Hep C?  

Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Sat, May 27, 2006, 3:09am (CDT+7)
From: not@aol.es (Cody)
elmoemerson@webtv.net wrote:
Re: Immigrate to Canada with Hep C?
Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Fri, May 26, 2006, 9:43pm (CDT+7)
From: not@aol.es (Cody)
elmoemerson@webtv.net wrote:
I'll put Cody
back in his trashcan and ignore him.
elmo
There you go again.
Cody
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It seemed so 'natural'. :-)
elmo
I think the idiom you're looking for is "knee-jerk reaction".
Cody  
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Naw, Cody...I'm sorry.  The idiom I was looking for was 'response to a
j.rk off'.  And sorry, Thomas....the son-of-a-bitch won't let me get the
last word.  :-)
elmo

http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile

http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum

  But if I were to

Say what you want to say about campo turds, but you just described where
I live to a tee.

Cody

Of course, lawyers don't do anything for free. What did you expect, charity?

Cody

"tim" <tim@tim.com> wrote >

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Here's and ecerpt from an Editorial in the Vancouver Sun from Friday.
Although the preliminary part does not supply working criteria for
immigrants with infectious deseases in general, scroll down about half way
to find an interpretation of the selection of immigrants (not refugee or
family class).  I have no idea if this is defiinitive or not, but it seems
the editors of the paper may have sources that would be officially quotable.

cactus jammies ---------------------------------------

Immigrants with HIV shouldn't be thrown to the wolves
Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, May 26, 2006
Over the past 20 years, Canada has done a lot to arrest the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. But according to a recent study led by former Immigration Canada
official Douglas MacPherson, we're missing a golden opportunity to prevent
and treat HIV infection among new arrivals.

The study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, the journal of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control, assessed the number of children with HIV who
entered Canada as refugees or under family class immigration applications
between 2002 and 2005.

MacPherson and his colleagues found that 36 immigrant children (33 of whom
were eligible to come to Canada) during that time were infected with HIV.
That translates to 14 child HIV cases per 100,000 immigrants, compared with
the Canadian rate of child HIV infection of only 0.02 per 100,000.

The reasons for the high rate of immigrant child infection is clear enough:
Since many refugees come from countries with high rates of HIV, it's
inevitable that they will experience higher rates of infection than the
Canadian population as a whole.

However, that doesn't, and shouldn't, mean that HIV-positive refugees are
inadmissable to Canada. While the Immigration and Refugee Protection
Regulations do allow the government to declare inadmissable immigrants whose
medical conditions might cause excessive demand on health services, those
provisions don't apply to refugees or to people entering Canada under family
class applications.

The exemptions for refugees and family applicants are, of course, a product
of our belief that the benefits of keeping families together and providing
protection to refugees outweigh the burden ill immigrants might place on the
health-care system.

But according to MacPherson's study, immigrants' needs and the needs of the
health-care system need not be at odds with each other. Indeed, by providing
appropriate medical care to recent refugees and immigrants, we can prevent
some HIV infections, thereby saving the system significant amounts of money
and saving the immigrants a lot more hardship.

MacPherson notes that pregnant, HIV-positive women, in particular, could
benefit from early medical intervention. Strategies to prevent
mother-to-child HIV transmission -- including risk behaviour counselling and
the provision of antiviral treatments -- already exist in Canada, but many
recent immigrant women are not accessing them.

There are no doubt many reasons for this, including a lack of culturally and
linguistically accessible health- care programs, and the women's lack of
knowledge of the system. But since all adult immigrants are now required to
take an HIV antibody test, they do have some contact with the system, and so
it's incumbent upon us to guide them toward care if they have specific
needs.

After all, there's little point in testing people if we're just going to
throw them to the wolves after they receive their test results. As a matter
of compassion, and out of concern for the future of our health-care system,
it's time to ensure the system works as well for immigrants and refugees as
it does for every other Canadian.

© The Vancouver Sun 2006