FEATURE
- Legislation contagion: building resistance
CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS
- Results of the first North American prescription heroin study are promising
- New excessive demand policy for immigration applicants
- British Columbia adopts E-Health Act
- (Most) political parties respond to questionnaire on AIDS issues during federal election
- Immigration and Refugee Protection Act amended
In brief
- Federal Government announces new strategy to eliminate illegal drugs in federal prisons
- Manitoba passes forced testing legislation
- Alberta to make personal medical information available on-line
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
- Mexico: General Recommendations issued against mandatory HIV testing and discharge from armed forces
- Cambodia: human trafficking legislation threatens HIV response
- U.S.: Interim step towards elimination of HIV travel ban
- Global: Review of injecting drug use and HIV prevalence among users
In brief
- Uganda: Civil society expresses concern about HIV bill
- China: Hu Jia wins human rights prize
- WHO commission reports on social determinant’s of health
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS — CANADA
- Vancouver’s supervised injection facility granted constitutional exemption from federal drug law
- HIV-positive man from DRC deemed a “person in need of protection”
- Federal Court sets aside decision denying Mexican couple’s claim of persecution
- Court dismisses HIV-positive man’s application for review of decision not to defer removal from Canada
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure
In brief
- Court dismisses Ottawa’s application to uphold federal medical marijuana restrictions
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS — INTERNATIONAL
- Supreme Court of India approves government commitments on health care for people living with HIV
- European Court rejects Ugandan woman’s claim to stay in the U.K.
- South African court bans promotion of vitamin treatments as cures for AIDS
- South African Court: Military cannot exclude HIV-positive people
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure
In brief
- HIV-positive Kenyan awarded compensation after being fired
- Kyrgyzstan: Nine health care workers guilty of negligence causing
- HIV transmission among children
- China: Judicial interpretation imposes stricter responsibility for contaminated blood sales
- Brazilian Appeals Court rules that criminal prosecution for drug possession is unconstitutional
- Egypt: Sentences upheld for men convicted of “debauchery”
AIDS 2008: LAW, ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- Human rights and HIV/AIDS: where are we? and what next?
- Human rights remain marginalized
- Rights and policy front and centre at the conference
- Lessons from Africa: combating the twin epidemics of domestic violence and HIV/AIDS
- Sexual assault, domestic violence and HIV: promoting women’s rights through legislation
- HIV is a virus, not a crime
- Pretrial detention: scale and relevance to HIV/AIDS
- Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Police raids and violence put sex workers at risk of HIV
- Violence against sex workers by police and military in Democratic Republic of Congo
- People with disabilities and the AIDS pandemic: making the link
- Coerced and forced sterilization of HIV-positive women in Namibia
- Using strategic litigation to strengthen rights in southern Africa
- Civil society strategy for the compulsory licensing of lopinavir/ritonavir: the Brazilian case
- Abuses of women’s rights in sexual and reproductive health-care settings
- Drawing conceptual linkages: property rights and HIV
- Measuring for change: a new research initiative by and for people living with HIV
- Continued challenge posed by HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence
- Putting the right back into sexual and reproductive rights
- Yogyakarta Principles: Applying existing human rights norms to sexual orientation and gender identity
- Rejecting the evidence: Russia’s drug dependence treatment system
- U.N. guidance note on HIV and sex work “reworked” by activists
- Recognize sex work as legitimate work