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| Abstract #42 - AIDS and immigration policies in France: issues and controversies | ||||
| Authors: Presenting Author: DR Elhadji MBaye - Institut d'Etudes politiques | ||||
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| Aim: Our aim in to presente to analyzing of the acting of stakeholders in the junction of these two policies and its impact in the life of migrants living with aids in France | ||||
| Method / Issue: This presentation is based on PHD research defending in October 2009 with more than 70 interviews of migrants, doctors, politicians, NGOS. The research is also based on research in the host and origin countries of migrants living with aids in France. As a member of an migrants association in France, a lot of results were based on experiences and participant observations in meetings, conferences... on aids among migrants in France and in Europe | ||||
| Results / Comments: Since the Chevenement law in 1998, the foreigners suffering from grave diseases like AIDS can have a permit card to stay in France. However, the restrictive policy engaged in immigration affect’s this right since 2002 and the arrival of the Right party in the government. The social and political contexts encourage people to leave their own countries. Some of them know their Aids status before leaving their countries but a lot of them ascertain their Aids status in host countries (more than 90%).Whereas the right to health constitutes a basic right, the reality of access to care for immigrant people is far from these provisions. Influential political actors (NGO, humanitarian associations, doctors, etc.) are engaging in defense of the rights to care and to stay in France of migrants suffering from AIDS. But the power of stakeholders opposed to this right influences the implementation of migrants suffering from aids rights in hospitals and administrations in France | ||||
| Discussion: The arrival of foreign patients living with Aids in an efficient health system like the France system, question’s its Universalist aiming. These issues and the debates which they cause are often put, at the political agenda by politicians, in terms of costs of their health care and the increase of the number of new recipients in medical benefits. Which are the problems raised by health care of migrants living with Aids in the France? Which are the strategies and programs implemented to improve health care among migrants living with AIDS? | ||||
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