Indigenous women, houselessness, and gender-based violence in Canada

Publication Summary

In the Canadian prairies, epidemics of HIV and syphilis are driven by a syndemic of houselessness, lived experience of colonization, substance use and violence and involvement with the justice system. These fact sheets build on NCCID’s recent work on shelters, incarceration, and HIV. The fact sheets explore the extent to which gender-based violence and houselessness are interconnected issues rooted in colonization, and outline how they increase vulnerability to HIV infection, particularly for Indigenous women.

This is the first of two fact sheets produced for this series. Please see the related product below.

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