Canada underinvests in Black health, one window into broader policy bias

Advocates are demanding a leadership role for Black communities in identifying, designing, and implementing interventions required to confront anti-Blackness, change the conditions that sustain the HIV crisis, and make justice possible

Canada abstained from a March 2026 United Nations vote condemning the trans-Atlantic enslavement of Africans as ‘the gravest crime against humanity.’ That abstention was not symbolic, it was policy, write members of the Interim Committee on HIV among Black Communities in Canada.

Opinion

BY OMISOORE H. DRYDEN, ERIC PETERS, WINSTON HUSBANDS

July 31, 2026

On March 25, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution that condemned the trans-Atlantic enslavement of Africans as “the gravest crime against humanity.”

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