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Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Volume 17, Issue 25, Week of June 25, 2018
Sanctum:
A refuge for homeless HIV/AIDS patients Katelyn Roberts and Dr. Morris Markentin founded Sanctum. Now Sanctum 1.5 is being constructed near St. Paul’s Hospital. (Photo by Joanne Paulson) Joanne Paulson Saskatoon Express atelyn Roberts remembers the first HIV-positive woman she encountered when she was a social worker in child protection. The woman, 27, had children in care and all her file read was “HIV-positive addict.” “It was all I could find about her,” said Roberts. “I pulled her child case file; she started working in the sex trade when she was eight years old. The only difference between me and her is I grew up on the east side of town and I had a loving, caring family. “Before she was six, she had been in 25 foster homes. When we see her as
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an adult, people are like, ‘she made a choice.’ That girl never had a choice.” It was one among hundreds of experiences that led Roberts, who became a front-line HIV case manager, and Dr. Morris Markentin, a physician at the west-side Community Clinic, to found Sanctum. Sanctum Care Home opened its doors to people desperately ill with HIV/AIDS in November 2015. The 10-bed facility has already served 60 people; and now, Sanctum 1.5 is being constructed across the street on Avenue O, near St. Paul’s Hospital, to treat and support pregnant women with HIV/AIDS. Sanctum became reality because Rob-
erts and Markentin identified a dire need, and had the determination and passion to do something about it. Both of them saw the need every working day. Saskatchewan has the highest rates of HIV in Canada — four times the national average — and the Community Clinic serves about 600 HIV-positive people. Roberts provided outreach to those living with HIV but not engaged in the health care system. She and Markentin worked together all the time. “I would bring patients in to see him, and vice versa. What we started to notice was that a lot of our patients were falling through the cracks. Many of them were living in dire circumstances; they weren’t
getting the care they needed,” she said. “Every week we’d meet and talk about the worst cases and how do we help them,” said Markentin. “Every other week someone would say, man, we need somewhere for these people to stay, because they didn’t stay in the hospital. “You wouldn’t stay in the hospital for six weeks, would you? No. Well, they wouldn’t either. They’re coming from a background of homelessness with zero boundaries and now we put them in a hospital bed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, (tell them to) listen to what we have to say and be nice, when their mode was to survive on the street. (Continued on page 9)
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