The Boom Province: A Syndemic Approach to the HIV/AIDS Explosion among Aboriginal Persons in Urban Saskatchewan

Authors

  • Andrea Paige Cessna University of Saskatchewan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32396/usurj.v1i1.49

Keywords:

medical anthroplogy, Aboriginal, Saskatchewan, syndemics

Abstract

The correlation between poverty and the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases is striking in Saskatchewan’s urban centres. Recent research indicates that the current spike of HIV/AIDS cases in the province disproportionately affects young Aboriginal women who live in Saskatoon’s inner-city neighbourhoods. Because HIV/AIDS is both a pathological and social reality, this paper uses a syndemic approach to analyze coinfection, injection drug use, poverty, gender, and ethnicity/race as they pertain to the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic in Saskatchewan. Taking into consideration Canada’s colonial history and ongoing neo-colonialism facing Aboriginal persons, this paper explores the relationship between health configurations and larger political and economic systems that result in structural violence.

Author Biography

Andrea Paige Cessna, University of Saskatchewan

Honours Anthropology (2012)

Sociology (2014)

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Published

2014-02-27

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014): February 2014

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