TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURE
- HIV treatments, vaccines, and microbicides: toward coordinated advocacy
CANADIAN NEWS
- Québec: An outbreak of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination
- Alberta: New bill will allow for mandatory HIV testing in emergency situations
- Media frenzy greets release of Newfoundland man from prison
- Health Canada makes marijuana available for medical use
- AIDS in the workplace: a program that’s still relevant
In brief
- Network formed to support the implementation of UNGASS at the community level
- Guidelines on sexual health education updated
- HIV Edmonton’s insurance woes send a warning signal to other ASOs
- Winnipeg partners with Kampala to fight AIDS in Uganda
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Caribbean: Regional support for HIV/AIDS law and policy reform
- China: People living with HIV complain about conduct of medical research Russian Federation: Penalties eased for possession of illegal drugs
- Kenya: AIDS-law sensitization results in schooling for orphans
- Kenya: Labour law reform touches HIV/AIDS
- African ILO meeting endorses efforts by employers’ and workers’ organizations to fight HIV/AIDS
- Africa: Regional workshop held on HIV/AIDS and the right to health
- Hungary: Unjustified discrimination confirms need for greater awareness
- Eastern Europe and Central Asia: report identifies human rights gaps
HIV/AIDS IN PRISONS
- Dublin Declaration on HIV/AIDS in prisons launched
- The text of the Dublin Declaration
- Another review of prison-based needle exchange programs published
- Canadian Human Rights Commission recommends prison needle exchange programs
- Portugal: Report recommends needle exchange or safe injection sites
- Canada: Coroner’s inquest into the methadone-related death of a prisoner
- Canada: Court affirms that prisoner health information must be treated as private and personal
Other developments
- Statistics on HIV/AIDS in prisons in the U.S.
- Australia: Hepatitis C “sweeps” prisons
- New web resource on HIV, hepatitis, and prisons
- U.S.: CDC promotes rapid HIV testing in short-term facilities
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – CANADA
- Limits on CPP survivor benefits for same-sex couples unconstitutional
- Supreme Court upholds criminal prohibitions on possession of marijuana for recreational use
- Ontario Securities Commission has authority to investigate viatical settlement purchase program
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – INTERNATIONAL
- Developments in South African law on HIV/AIDS