{"id":3949,"date":"2025-01-01T06:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2025-01-01T06:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:47:02","slug":"poorly-screened-immigration-leads-to-soaring-hiv-rates-in-alberta-and-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=3949","title":{"rendered":"Poorly Screened Immigration Leads to Soaring HIV Rates in Alberta and Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">HEALTH WATCH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Poorly Screened Immigration Leads to Soaring HIV Rates in Alberta and Quebec<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is \u201ca time when HIV is blazing through Canada at far greater rates than before. In Alberta, the number of new, reported annual infections once hovered at 200 to 300 per year, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/alberta-hiv-cases-rising-1.7356410\">shot up to 500<\/a> in 2023. Immigration and drug use are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/alberta-hiv-cases-rising-1.7356410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">likely factors<\/a> driving the increase. The same period saw a 120 per cent infection increase in Montreal, where immigration was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/montreal-hiv-increase-1.7050753\">dominant cause<\/a>. It makes sense; Canada is a good place to settle if one has a lifelong, expensive-to-treat viral infection \u2014 which is likely why at least 251 people, 15 per cent of attendees at a Montreal AIDS conference last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9850906\/canadian-aids-conference-guests-montreal-asylum\/\">claimed asylum<\/a>.\u201d (<strong><u>National Post<\/u><\/strong>, December 31, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AIDS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AIDS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3950\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEALTH WATCH Poorly Screened Immigration Leads to Soaring HIV Rates in Alberta and Quebec This is \u201ca time when HIV is blazing through Canada at far greater rates than before. In Alberta, the number of new, reported annual infections once hovered at 200 to 300 per year, but shot up to 500 in 2023. Immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[786,2751,2814],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}