title: Fear of lack of adequate medical care not well-founded fear of persecution.
abstract: The Federal Court-Trial Division refused to set aside the Immigration and Refugee Board's (IRB) decision that a refugee claimant was not a Convention refugee because she had not proven a well-founded fear of persecution based on her HIV status or AIDS diagnosis. The court emphasized that the fear of a lack of adequate medical treatment, without a clear link to a ground under the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, does not constitute a well-founded fear of persecution.
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D012036:Refugees