The CDC’s routine HIV testing recommendation: legally, not so routine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Supervised injection facility granted time-limited extension<\/li>\n
- Federal prison guards call for power to test prisoners for HIV<\/li>\n
- Sex workers: report goes Beyond Decriminalization<\/li>\n
- Medical marijuana: CAS releases report, government cuts research funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief <\/i><\/p>\n\n- BCPWA files complaint against police disclosure of HIV status<\/li>\n
- Toronto: Cracking down on crack pipes<\/li>\n
- Conditional sentences to be abolished for some drug offences<\/li>\n
- Health services, including needle exchange, key issue for Correctional Investigator<\/li>\n
- CSC closes safer tattoo pilot sites<\/li>\n
- Sex worker group receives human rights award<\/li>\n
- Lifetime ban on blood donations from gay men to continue<\/li>\n
- Some AIDS 2006 delegates claim refugee status<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Cameroon: UN group finds detention of gay men a violation of human rights Russian Federation: NGO law creates difficulties for human rights organizations<\/li>\n
- U.S. Government Accountability Office criticizes PEPFAR<\/li>\n
- India: Pressure increases on government to decriminalize homosexuality Developments in HIV\/AIDS legislation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- U.K.: HIV and human rights audit underway<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Evidence of HIV transmission in prisons<\/li>\n
- Europe & CEE: Prison needle exchange update<\/li>\n
- California: Governor vetoes prison condom bill<\/li>\n
- Jamaican activist receives human rights award<\/li>\n
- India: Proposal for mandatory testing of marriage couples withdrawn<\/li>\n
- France: Restrictions on residence visa for HIV-positive immigrants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 CANADA<\/b><\/p>\n\n- B.C. court gives go-ahead to non-profit needle exchange and drop-in<\/li>\n
- Another prisoner dies of HIV in a CSC institution \u2013 medical parole not considered until too late<\/li>\n
- Federal Court orders re-determination of HIV-positive Zimbabwean’s refugee claim<\/li>\n
- HIV-positive gay Mexican’s Convention refugee claim denied<\/li>\n
- Criminal law and HIV transmission or exposure: 10 new cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Supreme Court affirms that Ontario tribunal has power to consider Human Rights Code<\/li>\n
- Police officer loses negligence suit against Correctional Services Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 INTERNATIONAL<\/b><\/p>\n\n- South Africa: Court orders government to provide antiretrovirals to prisoners<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Sexual history must be disclosed in lawsuit for negligent HIV transmission, California Supreme Court rules<\/li>\n
- Switzerland: HIV-positive woman ordered to disclose names of sexual partners<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Courts rule anti-prostitution policy restriction on AIDS funding violates right to free speech<\/li>\n
- U.S.: HIV-positive prospective employee can sue Foreign Service for discrimination<\/li>\n
- U.K. Court rejects prisoner’s application for needle exchange<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- India: High Court of Andhra Pradesh upholds the right of HIV-positive person to employment in the police force<\/li>\n
- Hong Kong: Appeal Court affirms that law criminalizing buggery infringes rights of gay men<\/li>\n
- South Africa: Court overturns misconduct conviction of physician who denounced Minister’s inaction on HIV<\/li>\n
- South Africa: Herbal medicine proponent ordered to stop defaming treatment activists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
AIDS 2006: LAW, ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Advancing rights for women: the role of litigation<\/li>\n
- Law reform and land rights for women in Tanzania<\/li>\n
- “Second on the needle”: human rights of women who use drugs<\/li>\n
- Routine HIV testing: three perspectives\n
\n- Opt-out routine testing: the case has not been made<\/li>\n
- HIV Testing in the era of increased treatment access: a human rights perspective from Botswana<\/li>\n
- The routine offer of HIV counselling and testing: a human right<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
- HIV and the decriminalization of sex work in New Zealand<\/li>\n
- Providing legal aid to members of vulnerable minorities in Ukraine<\/li>\n
- Reflections on 25 years of AIDS<\/li>\n
- Controlling HIV among injecting drug users: the current status of harm reduction<\/li>\n
- Using human rights law to advocate for syringe exchange programs in European prisons<\/li>\n
- Drug addition treatment in Russia: no substitution therapy<\/li>\n
- Taking the fight to their realm: the role of patent oppositions in the struggle for access to medicines<\/li>\n
- Free trade negotiations can be harmful to your health<\/li>\n
- Vulnerable populations in Nepal face hostile environment<\/li>\n
- The Convention on the Rights of the Child in a world with HIV and AIDS<\/li>\n
- Removing requirement for self-disclosure of HIV status from Canada’s Application for a Temporary Resident Visa<\/li>\n
- Community attitudes towards rationing ARVs: a qualitative study of justice and equity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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