HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 3(1) October 1996

FEATURES

  • HIV Testing and Confidentiality Issues Reexamined
  • Compassionate Access to Investigational Therapies
  • HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Communities

XI INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE

  • What Did We Learn? Legal and Ethical Issues at the Vancouver Conference

HIV/AIDS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  • AIDS, Human Rights, and NAFTA: Challenges and Opportunities

CANADIAN NEWS

  • Canadian Human Rights Commission Releases Revised Policy on HIV/AIDS
  • Canadian Declaration of Rights for People Living with HIV/AIDS

BLOOD AND BLOOD SAFETY

  • Another Update on the Krever Commission

DRUG POLICY

  • Taskforce on HIV/AIDS and Drug Use Created
  • Senate Urges Review of Canada’s Drug Laws, Policies and Programs

PRISONERS AND HIV/AIDS

  • Final Report on HIV/AIDS in Prisons Released
  • Methadone Treatment in Prisons: An Overview
  • Judge Orders Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Prison
  • US — Improving HIV/AIDS Prevention in Prisons Is Good Public Health Policy

IMMIGRATION

  • US — Asylum Granted to Person Living with HIV

CHILDREN AND HIV/AIDS

  • The Children and AIDS International NGO Network

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • Sex Trade Worker Sentenced to Two Years for Biting
  • US — Court Reverses HIV-Positive Rapist’s Attempted Murder Conviction

EUTHANASIA

  • Toward an End-of-Life” Treatment”?
  • US — Federal Court Finds California Assisted-Suicide Law Unconstitutional

PUBLIC HEALTH

  • AIDS and Public Health Measures: A Global Survey of the Activities of Legislatures 1983–1993

INTERNET NEWS

  • Bypassing the Media’s Common Paradigm of Sensationalism vs Silence

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • 8th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm

SPECIAL FEATURE: HIV HOME TESTING

  • Home Testing for HIV: Potential Benefits and Pitfalls
  • Testing for HIV Infection at Home
  • US — Doctor Settles HIV-Testing Case for $10,000
  • US — List of 4000 Persons with AIDS Leaked

COMPASSIONATE ACCESS SPECIAL FEATURE

  • Compassionate Access to Experimental Drugs: Balancing Interests and Harms
  • Compassionate Access to Experimental Drugs and Catastrophic Rights
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