title: HIV/AIDS in the courts--Canada. Argentinean couple living with HIV denied Convention refugee status.
abstract: On 25 January 2005, the Federal Court of Canada upheld an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) decision refusing to grant refugee status to an HIV-positive man and his same-sex partner. Pablo Sergio Gonzalez and his partner, Nelson Horacio De-Robles, feared persecution by the government of Argentina because of Gonzalez's past political activity.
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina / Q000208:ethnology; D002170:Canada; D015658:HIV Infections; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012036:Refugees / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012747:Sexual Partners