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Les clients de TS sont considérés comme un groupe à risque de VIH et aussi agiraient comme un « pont de transmission » entre les TS et les femmes de la population générale. En dépit de leurs comportements sexuels à risque, les clients de TS ont été rarement étudiés. En conséquence, les objectifs spécifiques de cette thèse étaient : 1) estimer la prévalence du VIH, de la syphilis, du VHS-2 (virus de l’herpès simplex et 2) des facteurs de risque associés chez les clients de TS en Haïti, 2) examiner les déterminants de l’intention d’utilisation du condom, et 3) estimer la prévalence des comportements de violence et ses conséquences. Pour ce faire, une enquête transversale a été effectuée en 2006 auprès de 378 clients fréquentant …

L’infection au VIH s’accompagne souvent de dérégulations du compartiment des lymphocytes B qui nuisent à la génération de réponses efficaces. En effet, détectées tôt après l’infection, ces dérégulations perdurent, ne sont pas totalement restaurées par la thérapie, et mènent souvent à des manifestations auto-immunes et lymphomes. Une étude longitudinale de notre groupe, effectuée avec des cellules mononucléées du sang circulant provenant de patients VIH+ avec différents types de progression clinique, a démontré qu’un niveau élevé de BLyS chez des individus VIH+ progresseurs était associé à une dérégulation des fréquences de populations de cellules B avec augmentation de cellules innées de la zone marginale (MZ) présentant des caractéristiques d’immaturité et d’activation. Au contraire, chez des individus VIH+ non-progresseurs avirémiques ou contrôleurs d’élite, les niveaux de BLyS …

This article examines the emergence of the discourse on “domestic trafficking” of Indigenous girls and women for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Drawing on community-based experience, the author argues that the shift toward the language and framework of “human trafficking” to capture a range of offences and injustices facing Indigenous women is one of many efforts to recategorize violence against Indigenous women as worthy of legal response in the context of ongoing colonial legal violence.

Keywords: violence' human trafficking, law, Indigenous women and girls

ABSTRACTThe study of the relation between feminism and political philosophy presupposes a classification of the main theoretical trends of contemporary feminism. The paper first presents Alison Jaggar's taxonomy and underlines its problems. This is followed by the survey of a set of studies dealing, expressly or not, with the taxonomy of these trends. The analysis of these and of Jaggar's studies leads to a grid which locates the trends in the same theoretical framework, shows the stakes that they tackle and reveals those that are not discussed.

ABSTRACTAlthough some women fare better in our society, this does not mean that the situation of women in general is no longer problematic, and that feminism is no longer needed. On the contrary, as a way of thinking, as a discourse, as a praxis and as an ethics, feminism remains essential to the coming of a better society.

In Quebec as elsewhere, recent years have seen the birth and growth of organizations and splinter groups that share a profound refusal of the pluralistic character of our modern societies. The emergence of organized extremist right-wing movements sporting racist tendencies, constitutes perhaps the most exacerbated form of this political pathology. Although reprehensible from the standpoint of principles, the activities of these movements present a delicate problem for all democratic societies. How far can one conceivably militate in favour of apolitical order incompatible with the ideals of equality, liberty and dignity upon which that society is founded ? The author deals with the legal dimensions of this problem in light of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, the fundamental text covering such matters in the Quebec legal system. First, he analyzes the scope of freedoms of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association guaranteed under the Charter. He demonstrates how these freedoms must be exercised while respecting democratic values, public order and general well-being and he attempts to synthesize action guidelines applicable to various sectors (including schools and the workplace). The author then analyzes the normative scope of the right to equality, illustrating, both its potentialities regarding available recourses and its inherent limits under the present formulation of the Charter. Throughout this descriptive and critical portrayal of our substantive law transpires the interest of an approach to racist extremism based on the Charier, whose distinct mechanisms are sometimes better adapted to the activities of racist organizations than those of criminal law.