{"id":450,"date":"2004-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T00:46:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-10-04T21:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:22:05","slug":"hivaids-policy-and-law-review-93-december-2004","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/hivaids-policy-and-law-review-93-december-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV\/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(3) December 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>FEATURES<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=415\">Still underground: searching for progress in realizing the human rights of women in prostitution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/?p=491\">Steps forward, backward, and sideways: Canada&#8217;s bill on exporting generic pharmaceuticals<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>EDITORIAL<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High time to vastly scale up action on human rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>CANADIAN NEWS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ontario: Police disclose HIV status of accused under Police Services Act<\/li>\n<li>BC: Campaign launched to protect personal health information<\/li>\n<li>Nova Scotia: &#8220;Blood samples&#8221; legislation passed<\/li>\n<li>British Columbia: Studies show positive public impacts of harm-reduction measures for drug users<\/li>\n<li>Nurse, legal society receive human rights award<\/li>\n<li>Proposed amendments to medical marijuana regulations released for comment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>In brief <\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MP calls for review of solicitation laws<\/li>\n<li>Vancouver: Gay posters banned by billboard company<\/li>\n<li>Groups distribute harm-reduction kits to crack users<\/li>\n<li>British Columbia study finds high levels of poverty and disability among HIV positive<\/li>\n<li>Health Canada approves rapid HIV test for sale in Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>INTERNATIONAL NEWS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HIV\/AIDS, law, and discrimination in Guyana<\/li>\n<li>Policy and environment assessment on illicit drug use and HIV risk in Cambodia<\/li>\n<li>Southern Africa: Reports document legal responses to HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n<li>NGO Code of Practice released<\/li>\n<li>Thai Drug Users Network receives human rights award<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria addresses HIV\/AIDS in the workplace<\/li>\n<li>New report on the impact of HIV\/AIDS on the world of work<\/li>\n<li>UK: Developments on HIV\/AIDS, stigma, and discrimination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>HIV\/AIDS IN PRISONS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prison needle exchange programs work<\/li>\n<li>Is the world finally waking up to HIV\/AIDS in prisons? A report from the XV International AIDS Conference<\/li>\n<li>Canada: Study provides further evidence of risk of hepatitis C and HIV transmission in prisons<\/li>\n<li>Canadian court orders remand centre to provide prescribed medication and permit consultation with outside physician<\/li>\n<li>Canadian court denies prisoner access to anti-anxiety medication<\/li>\n<li>Prisoner denied access to medical marijuana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Other developments<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S.: Study links incarceration and HIV rates in black communities<\/li>\n<li>Canada: Revised guidelines on management of infectious diseases and on bleach distribution issued<\/li>\n<li>Canada: Prison networking and research &amp; advocacy groups founded<\/li>\n<li>New resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 CANADA<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Court orders Immigration and Refugee Board to take into account evidence of HIV-related discrimination<\/li>\n<li>Appeal board overturns decision denying Zambian admission to Canada<\/li>\n<li>Severance provisions of old Ontario employment standards legislation infringe Charter equality rights of persons with disabilities<\/li>\n<li>Criminal charges against marijuana compassion club members stayed<\/li>\n<li>Federal Court permits contaminated-blood litigation to proceed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 INTERNATIONAL<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India: Court finds government has constitutional obligation to provide ARVs to released prisoner<\/li>\n<li>India: Challenge to constitutionality of criminal law banning homosexual acts dismissed<\/li>\n<li>Libya: Foreign health-care workers sentenced to death for deliberate infection<\/li>\n<li>UK: Court grants asylum to pregnant claimant, citing European Convention<\/li>\n<li>UK: House of Lords recognizes that privacy rights include protection of mental health<\/li>\n<li>Criminal law and HIV transmission or exposure: four new cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>In brief<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mexico: Discharge of HIV-positive soldiers discriminatory and unconstitutional<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>BANGKOK 2004: LAW, ETHICS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not as simple as ABC: making real progress on women&#8217;s rights and AIDS<\/li>\n<li>Young women living with HIV\/AIDS have rights too: a personal testimonial<\/li>\n<li>A human rights crisis in need of a human rights response<\/li>\n<li>Sex workers and law reform in South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Youth: too often missing from the response<\/li>\n<li>Double discrimination: drug users living with HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n<li>Drug control, human rights, and harm reduction in the age of AIDS<\/li>\n<li>In Thailand, drug users have to fight for their rights<\/li>\n<li>The spread of harm-reduction programs in Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Prisoners&#8217; 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