{"id":664,"date":"2006-11-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-07-23T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T13:01:36","slug":"legislation-to-authorize-forced-testing-of-federal-prisoners-for-hiv-an-unjustified-violation-of-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/legislation-to-authorize-forced-testing-of-federal-prisoners-for-hiv-an-unjustified-violation-of-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation to Authorize Forced Testing of Federal Prisoners for HIV: An Unjustified Violation of Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"This submission explains why legislation authorizing the forced testing of federal prisoners for HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) should not be introduced or supported by the Government of Canada. Briefly stated, legislation authorizing the forced testing of people (i.e., without the individual&#8217;s informed consent) does not represent an appropriately balanced policy response to the issue of correctional officers&#8217; potential or actual occupational exposures. Forced testing legislation remains a flawed approach that does not adequately respect and protect human rights.<br \/>\n<!-- prisons, forced testing, mandatory, compulsory, \\\"security of the person\\\", privacy, occupational exposure, PEP, post-exposure prohylaxis, informed consent, charter --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Legislation to Authorize Forced Testing of Federal Prisoners for HIV: An Unjustified Violation of Human Rights\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/10892\/?tmstv=1776455565\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[201,155,159],"publication_type":[173],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-664","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-hepatitis-c","publication_topics-prisons","publication_topics-testing","publication_type-briefing-papers","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/664","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20955,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/664\/revisions\/20955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}