{"id":328,"date":"2004-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:25:00","slug":"quebec-an-outbreak-of-hivaids-related-stigma-and-discrimination-hivaids-policy-law-review-91-august-2004","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/quebec-an-outbreak-of-hivaids-related-stigma-and-discrimination-hivaids-policy-law-review-91-august-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec: An outbreak of HIV\/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination &#8211; HIV\/AIDS Policy &#038; Law Review 9(1), August 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"In the space of a few weeks in January 2004, actions by three different institutions in Quebec combined to threaten the human rights of people living with HIV\/AIDS, raise the spectre of mandatory HIV testing, and create unnecessary public fears about the spread of HIV infection.<\/p>\n<p>In response to what they called \u201cthe worst weeks in recent history for people living with HIV\/AIDS in Quebec,\u201d the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network and COCQ-Sida (the Quebec coalition of community-based organizations fighting AIDS) called for a provincewide campaign against HIV\/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>A victory was achieved when a Montr\u00e9al catholic seminary announced that it had backed down from its initial proposal to mandatorily test all applicants for priesthood for HIV, but much more is needed to fight the rapid outbreak of mandatory-testing proposals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pageFooter\">\n<h1>Related Publications<\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"..\/?p=448\">HIV\/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(1) April 2004<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Quebec: An outbreak of HIV\/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination \u2013 HIV\/AIDS Policy &amp; Law Review 9(1), August 2004\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/9954\/?tmstv=1775707007\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- David Garmaise, Quebec, COCQ-Sida, Montr\u00e9al, Montreal, catholic seminary -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[146,159],"publication_type":[176],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-328","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-discrimination","publication_topics-testing","publication_type-journal-articles","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22512,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/328\/revisions\/22512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}