HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 11(2/3) December 2006

FEATURES

Canada’s 2003 renewed drug strategy — an evidence-based review

Will they deliver treatment access?: WTO rules and Canada’s law on generic medicine exports

The CDC’s routine HIV testing recommendation: legally, not so routine

CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS

In brief

BCPWA files complaint against police disclosure of HIV status
Toronto: Cracking down on crack pipes
Conditional sentences to be abolished for some drug offences
Health services, including needle exchange, key issue for Correctional Investigator
CSC closes safer tattoo pilot sites
Sex worker group receives human rights award
Lifetime ban on blood donations from gay men to continue
Some AIDS 2006 delegates claim refugee status

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

Cameroon: UN group finds detention of gay men a violation of human rights Russian Federation: NGO law creates difficulties for human rights organizations
U.S. Government Accountability Office criticizes PEPFAR
India: Pressure increases on government to decriminalize homosexuality Developments in HIV/AIDS legislation

In brief

HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS — CANADA

B.C. court gives go-ahead to non-profit needle exchange and drop-in
Another prisoner dies of HIV in a CSC institution — medical parole not considered until too late
Federal Court orders re-determination of HIV-positive Zimbabwean’s refugee claim
HIV-positive gay Mexican’s Convention refugee claim denied
Criminal law and HIV transmission or exposure: 10 new cases

In brief

Supreme Court affirms that Ontario tribunal has power to consider Human Rights Code
Police officer loses negligence suit against Correctional Services Canada

HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS — INTERNATIONAL

South Africa: Court orders government to provide antiretrovirals to prisoners
U.S.: Sexual history must be disclosed in lawsuit for negligent HIV transmission, California Supreme Court rules
Switzerland: HIV-positive woman ordered to disclose names of sexual partners
U.S.: Courts rule anti-prostitution policy restriction on AIDS funding violates right to free speech
U.S.: HIV-positive prospective employee can sue Foreign Service for discrimination
U.K. Court rejects prisoner’s application for needle exchange

In brief

India: High Court of Andhra Pradesh upholds the right of HIV-positive person to employment in the police force
Hong Kong: Appeal Court affirms that law criminalizing buggery infringes rights of gay men
South Africa: Court overturns misconduct conviction of physician who denounced Minister’s inaction on HIV
South Africa: Herbal medicine proponent ordered to stop defaming treatment activists

AIDS 2006: LAW, ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Advancing rights for women: the role of litigation
Law reform and land rights for women in Tanzania
“Second on the needle”: human rights of women who use drugs
Routine HIV testing: three perspectives
1. Opt-out routine testing: the case has not been made
2. HIV Testing in the era of increased treatment access: a human rights perspective from Botswana
3. The routine offer of HIV counselling and testing: a human right
HIV and the decriminalization of sex work in New Zealand
Providing legal aid to members of vulnerable minorities in Ukraine
Reflections on 25 years of AIDS
Controlling HIV among injecting drug users: the current status of harm reduction
Using human rights law to advocate for syringe exchange programs in European prisons
Drug addition treatment in Russia: no substitution therapy
Taking the fight to their realm: the role of patent oppositions in the struggle for access to medicines
Free trade negotiations can be harmful to your health
Vulnerable populations in Nepal face hostile environment
The Convention on the Rights of the Child in a world with HIV and AIDS
Removing requirement for self-disclosure of HIV status from Canada’s Application for a Temporary Resident Visa
Community attitudes towards rationing ARVs: a qualitative study of justice and equity