Scaling up HIV testing: human rights and hidden costs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Health Canada authorizes access to experimental HIV drugs, but only after a long struggle<\/li>\n
- Question period: how will Canada’s new minority government approach HIV\/AIDS?<\/li>\n
- HIV-positive woman suing police, man who allegedly infected her and his family<\/li>\n
- Medical marijuana users continue to experience legal barriers<\/li>\n
- New developments in mandatory blood testing legislation<\/li>\n
- Health care workers push for use of safer hypodermic needles<\/li>\n
- Vancouver safe injection facility: more positive results<\/li>\n
- Gay man launches suit over refusal to accept blood donation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Vancouver police crack down on drug users, safe injection facility<\/li>\n
- Toronto City Council adopts drug strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- WTO approves TRIPS amendment on importing under compulsory licensing<\/li>\n
- Who killed HIV\/AIDS activist Steve Harvey?<\/li>\n
- Thais protest US-Thai FTA talks<\/li>\n
- Lesotho embarks on universal HIV testing<\/li>\n
- CEE\/CA: Report calls for decriminalization of sex work<\/li>\n
- UK: Legal action launched against government’s guidelines on non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis<\/li>\n
- Lithuania: Legal Network meeting discusses model legislation project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Russian Federation: Duma repeals Russian Criminal Code reforms<\/li>\n
- UK: Home Office announces new policy initiative on prostitution<\/li>\n
- Germany: Study shows effectiveness of prison needle exchange<\/li>\n
- UK: Groups call for comprehensive response to HIV and hepatitis in prison<\/li>\n
- Australia: ACT considers prison needle exchange program<\/li>\n
- Namibia: Anti-homosexuality law undermines HIV prevention in prisons<\/li>\n
- India: UNAIDS claims law criminalizing homosexuality hinders HIV prevention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 CANADA<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Supreme Court clarifies immigration medical inadmissibility provision<\/li>\n
- Federal health information privacy cases from 2005<\/li>\n
- Criminal law and HIV transmission\/exposure: five new cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 INTERNATIONAL<\/b><\/p>\n\n- UK: Court of Appeals upholds deportation orders of four people with HIV<\/li>\n
- India: Exclusion of people with HIV from police force unconstitutional, administrative tribunal holds<\/li>\n
- Australia: Court recognizes that HIV-positive people face special challenges in prison<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Kansas court strikes down harsher penalty for gay underage sex<\/li>\n
- Criminal law and HIV\/AIDS: four new cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Australia: HIV-positive applicant for permanent residence obtains waiver of medical inadmissibility<\/li>\n
- Australia: Court quashes sentence of man convicted for HIV transmission<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Arizona ordered to cover HIV-positive woman’s organ transplant<\/li>\n
- UK: House of Lords refuses leave to appeal HIV transmission conviction<\/li>\n
- Libya: Death sentences of foreign health care workers overturned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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