Nancy Nzeyimana Cyizere

Research field(s)

Ongoing PhD dissertation (since October 2020): The matrix of black people's vulnerability to disease: the case of HIV/AIDS in Île-de-France and
Haute Garonne
Doctoral School Temps, Espaces, Sociétés, Cultures à l’Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès

PhD supervisors

Stéphanie Mulot, HDR → Research Centre on Work Organizations and Policies (CERTOP) at the Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès.

Virginie Rozée, HDR → Research Unit 14 : Sexual and reproductive Health and Rights (UR14) at the Institut national d’études démographiques.

Abstract
The Covid 19 health crisis has highlighted a lack of methodological tools to characterize health inequities in France comprehensively. Indeed, people
born in so-called "sub-Saharan" or "non-Maghreb" Africa suffered glaring excess mortality rates across the territory, while the figures for European
immigrants were equivalent to the average for people born in France. At the same time, significant disparities were observed among the native population
according to the department of residence, Seine-St-Denis being the most affected.
Similarly, this differential vulnerability to disease of some black populations has been identified for HIV and AIDS for several decades. These over-
incidences cannot only be reduced to an importation from the Global South, recent research having underlined the significant proportion of HIV
infections among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa occurring during their processes of arrival and settlement in France, marked by legal, economic and
residential insecurity. It is therefore relevant to consider the existence of factors of disadvantage in health that transcend the usual categories of
analysis.
Through a qualitative investigation, we seek to denaturalize and materialize the proximity to HIV of a minority historically associated with the AIDS
syndemic: black people in France. From a sociological perspective, we regard black people as a social group, a serial structure of positions of
inferiority. We thus describe the micro-, meso-, and macrosocial fabric of racial minoritization in an intersectional manner, as a historical and
political construct structuring social relations with manifest consequences on the material conditions of existence, overexposure to risks and access to
health care.

Methods

semi-structured interviews;

direct field observations;

literature review.

Key words
intersectional inequalities in health; racial minoritization; sexual and reproductive health;
HIV and AIDS ; France (Hexagon).