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Elhadji Mbaye
PACT, IEP Grenoble,
Canada
Research Article
Intersectoral Public Action between Immigration Policy and the Fight against Aids in France and Canada
Author(s): Elhadji MbayeElhadji Mbaye
This article examines how two countries, France and Canada, with different political systems address a common problem that public migrants living with HIV/AIDS from countries where this disease is endemic. Public action in these countries is at the intersection of two public policies that may seem contradictory (immigration and the fight against AIDS). Despite three obvious differences: first in the fight against AIDS (constraint and control/cooperation and inclusion), then immigration policy (selective immigration/immigration generalized) and finally AIDS treatment among foreign (screening foreign/non-screening), the analysis of public action shows that there are common trends between the two countries on the direction of policy towards migrants living with HIV/AIDS. These are manifested in part by the reduction of the rights granted to the public due to the restrictions of immigrati.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2332-0761.1000127