| Francophones living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario: the unknown reality of an invisible cultural minority. | |
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PMID: 22087510 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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A strong body of evidence demonstrates that education, prevention and intervention, in the context of HIV/AIDS, should take ethno-racial diversity into account. The current research focuses on the cultural sensitivity manifested by AIDS service organisation ASO professionals towards Francophone minority persons living with HIV/AIDS Francophone PHAs in the two main urban centres of Ontario: Ottawa and Toronto. More specifically, this qualitative research will describe two different points of view: Francophone PHA service users n17 and ASO professionals n12. Data were collected from multiple focus groups and analysed using a phenomenological methodology. The analysis revealed that an important difference exists in the perceptions of language as an integral part of ethno-racial diversity. For ASO professionals, language is perceived as a simple tool of communication. For Francophones living with HIV/AIDS, however, language is perceived as a way to convey sensitivity to their cultural reality and a full recognition of their Canadian citizenship. This research showed that cultural sensitivity should include a linguistic aspect when it comes to health-related services, especially in the context of an officially bilingual country. |
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Andre Alphonse Samson; Noah Moshe Pesach Spector |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-11-17 |
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Title: AIDS care Volume: - ISSN: 1360-0451 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Nov |
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Created Date: 2011-11-17 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8915313 Medline TA: AIDS Care Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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a Faculty of Education , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , ON , Canada. |
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