TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
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Human rights and HIV/AIDS in the context of 3 by 5: time for new directions?Harm-reduction activism: a case study of an unsanctioned user-run safe injection site
CANADIAN NEWS
- Canada announces new funding for domestic and global fight against AIDS
- Reports call for end to harms caused by Criminal Code prohibitions surrounding prostitution
- Nova Scotia renews its HIV/AIDS strategy
- Study highlights negative public health consequences of police crackdown on drug market
- Health Canada considers dispensing medical marijuana through pharmacies
In brief
- Montréal: Probe requested into police hiring practices
- Québec: College issues statement on HIV testing for physicians
- Statistics Canada plans to use blood and other samples to measure health trends
- Alberta: “Blood Samples” act passes third reading
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- International News – 10 years on
- Ghana: Capacity-building workshops for lawyers and judges
- Comparative study of HIV/AIDS and human rights in Andean nations
- Report documents human rights abuses of drug users in Thailand
- The Philippines: HIV/AIDS, condoms, and human rights
- Russian Federation: Battle not over in drug-law changes
- Hungary: A fight every step of the way for voluntary, anonymous, and free tests
- USA: Cirque du Soleil pays US$600,000 to end HIV discrimination complaint
- Namibia: Policy adopted on HIV/AIDS and the education sector
- Global: HIV/AIDS-related travel restrictions – UNAIDS/IOM statement and revision of International Health Regulations
In brief
GLOBAL ACCESS TO TREATMENT, VACCINES AND MICROBICIDES
- Legal and ethical issues in microbicides research and development in Canada
- Consumer groups call for ban on internet pharmacies
- Therapeutic HIV vaccine trial launched in Canada
HIV/AIDS IN PRISONS
- Correctional Service Canada to undertake Safer Tattooing Practices Initiative
- Health care needs assessment of federal prisoners in Canada released
- United Nations agencies release policy brief on reduction of HIV transmission in prisons
- U.S. Judge: Inadequate medical care for HIV-positive prisoners is a violation of rights
Other developments
- Québec: High rates of HIV and HCV in prisons
- Canada: Study shows that incarceration is independently associated with syringe lending and borrowing
- Canada: Does incarceration result in HIV treatment interruptions?
- United States: Revised standards for health services in correctional institutions published
- Ireland: Report reviews harm-reduction interventions
- Russia: Study recommends improved and additional harm-reduction strategies, including prison needle exchange programs
- Indonesia: Working committee on HIV/AIDS in prisons formed
- United States: Jail to offer methadone treatment
- United States: “Ex-prisoners are family too”
- New resources
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – CANADA
- Criminal law and HIV transmission/exposure: three new cases
- Fear of persecution not adequate to claim refugee status
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – INTERNATIONAL
- U.S.: Immigration court allows Zambian woman’s asylum claim based on HIV infection
- Australia: Migration Review Tribunal waives medical inadmissibility criteria for two HIV-positive visa applicants
- Botswana: Industrial Court tackles HIV testing in the workplace
- India: Constitutional protection from discrimination in employment on the basis of HIV status affirmed in three cases
- UK: Court of Appeal orders retrial in UK’s first HIV criminal transmission case
- Australia: Supreme Court of Western Australia orders retrial in case of man convicted of infecting girlfriend with HIV
In brief
- Spanish court rules that national HIV registry should be abolished
- China: Damages awarded to husband of woman infected with HIV through blood transfusion
LAW ESSAY CONTEST
- Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) v South Africa (Minister of Health): reflections on the right to health care in Canada