This volume contains the final version of the three background papers. It should be read together with HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Use: Legal and Ethical Issues, the report on phases I and II of the project, which contains a summary of the analysis of the seven priority issues, and the recommendations developed by the workshop … Read more
Seven priority issues have been analyzed: What is the impact of the current legal status of drugs and drug use on efforts to prevent HIV infection among injection drug users and on the provision of care, treatment, and support to drug users with HIV/AIDS? What are alternatives to the current legal regime on drugs and … Read more
FEATURES Injection Drug Use and HIV/AIDS: Another Call for Action Newly Infected People and Clinical Trials: Ethical Issues PREGNANCY AND HIV/AIDS An Ethical Analysis of HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Their Newborns New Law on Testing Newborns in Connecticut US: Court Denies Legal Custody of Child to Breast-feeding Mother with HIV HIV/AIDS IN CANADIAN … Read more
FEATURES Supreme Court Rules in R v Cuerrier Legal, Ethical, and Human Rights Issues at Geneva98 CANADIAN NEWS Legal, Ethical, and Human Rights Issues Raised by HIV/AIDS: A Plan for 1999–2003 HIV/AIDS IN CANADIAN COURTS HIV/AIDS in Canadian Courts in 1998: An Overview Québec Court of Appeal Rules on the Constitutionality of Law on Anal … Read more
FEATURES Current Issues in HIV/AIDS and Insurance Focus on HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Use Children: The Changing Face of AIDS DISCRIMINATION Your Health Is Back. Now You May Lose Your Protection against Discrimination Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues and HIV/AIDS: A Discussion Paper Publication Noted: The Impact of Homophobia and Other Social Biases on AIDS … Read more
FEATURES Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Supreme Court to Hear Cuerrier Case Testing of Pregnant Women: Issues and Options TESTING AND CONFIDENTIALITY HIV Testing and Confidentiality: A Discussion Paper HIV Testing in Pregnancy: A Duty or a Choice? A New World of HIV Testing: Experiences with Home Testing Canada — Rapist Required to Submit … Read more
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 … Read more
FEATURES Human Rights, Women and HIV Needle Exchange in Prisons: An Overview US Appeal Courts Rule in Favour of Assisted Suicide TESTING & CONFIDENTIALITY Project Begins Work on Testing and Confidentiality Issues US — Hospital Sued Over Clandestine HIV Test CANADIAN NEWS Renewal of AIDS Strategy Needed CRIMINAL JUSTICE Discussion Paper on criminal Law and … Read more
FEATURES AIDS and Overdose Deaths in British Columbia Drug Laws and HIV/AIDS Public Health and “The Unwilling and Unable” DRUG POLICY Access to Sterile Needles for Young People under the Age of 14 Bill C-7: An Update DISCRIMINATION Transgendered People, Discrimination, and HIV/AIDS US: Court Finds Dentist Guilty of Unlawful Discrimination HIV/AIDS and Child Care … Read more
FEATURES Third HIV/AIDS Strategy Needed HIV-Specific Criminal Offence Proposed Interventions in Perinatal HIV Transmission CRIMINAL JUSTICE Joint Project on Criminalization of HIV Transmission Criminalization of HIV Transmission: A Literature Review Criminal Law and HIV/AIDS: A Review of Cases (Part II) HIV-Positive Rapist Sentenced to 12 Years BLOOD AND BLOOD PRODUCTS Japan: Hemophiliacs Offered Compensation in … Read more