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Privacy Protection and the Disclosure of Health Information: Legal Issues for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Canada
This report focuses on three important areas of concern: the lack of adequate and effective protections in Canadian law for the right of people living with HIV/AIDS to keep their personal health information private; clauses in legislation that permit a person to disclose another person’s personal health information, including the health information of a person … Read more
Controlling Drug Costs for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Federal Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices in Canada
The paper: highlights the significance of policy on pharmaceutical pricing, given increasing costs and spending on medicines as part of overall healthcare spending in Canada; identifies recent developments that are important because they inform current debates in Canada over regulating drug prices, or our policies in general relating to pharmaceuticals; outlines current federal law and … Read more
Network News 15 – May 2004
In this issue: Canada Proceeds with Bill C-9: Will Exports of Low-Cost Medicines to Developing Countries be the Result? An Interview with Richard Elliott “We are Having an Impact”: Interview with Ralf Jürgens Update: 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights Progress on Joint Agenda for Microbicide, Treatment and Vaccines Advocates Cross-Canada Day … Read more