Commentary: Engendering bold leadership against HIV\/AIDS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Subcommittee fails to recommend legal reforms needed to promote human rights of sex workers<\/li>\n
- Conservative government ends funding for research on Insite<\/li>\n
- Draft evaluation suggests pilot safer tattooing program had potential to reduce disease transmission<\/li>\n
- Public health agency says prison needle exchanges reduce risk, do not threaten safety or security<\/li>\n
- Ontario passes new mandatory blood testing law: a preliminary review<\/li>\n
- Bill eliminating conditional sentences amended to exclude drug offences<\/li>\n
- Vancouver: Mayor proposes new treatment plan for stimulant-drug users<\/li>\n
- Funding announcements from federal government, Gates Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Progress report on national pharmaceuticals strategy released<\/li>\n
- Auditor-General critical of Health Canada regulatory performance<\/li>\n
- Ottawa police accused of undermining crack distribution program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Thailand: Government issues compulsory licences for HIV\/AIDS drugs<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Proposed federal legislation to allow condom distribution and HIV testing in prison<\/li>\n
- Russian Federation: Governments threaten freedom of association and assembly for LGBT organizations<\/li>\n
- Russian Federation: Inhumane conditions in the drug treatment facilities lead to tragedy<\/li>\n
- U.K.: New publications on HIV transmission and exposure and the criminal justice system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- India: Multi-national pharmaceutical company challenges patent law<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Proposed easing of restrictions for HIV-positive short-term entry visas<\/li>\n
- UNHCR: New strategy for provision of antiretroviral therapy to refugees<\/li>\n
- Indonesia: On the road to a harm reduction model?<\/li>\n
- Africa: New report on how HIV\/AIDS programming is failing LGBT people<\/li>\n
- Cameroon: ILO conducts HIV training for labour courts in francophone Africa<\/li>\n
- U.S.: All states to move to names-based HIV reporting in 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 CANADA<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Federal Court of Appeal examines for first time refugee protection on the basis of inadequate health care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Criminal law and HIV transmission or exposure: new cases and developments<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Judge imposes two-year sentence; says treatment needs likely better met in federal prison<\/li>\n
- Fifty-six-month sentence for unprotected sex with two girlfriends<\/li>\n
- Ex-professional football player guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault<\/li>\n
- Court rejects appeal where man disclosed HIV status to police, claimed he didn’t know HIV endangered life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Human Rights Tribunal rejects application to dismiss discrimination complaint<\/li>\n
- Appeal Court finds assisted contraception regulations do not discriminate against lesbians and gay men<\/li>\n
- Federal Court rejects “irreparable harm” argument of HIV-positive failed refugee claimant seeking to stop deportation<\/li>\n
- $6 million settlement in medical negligence case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 INTERNATIONAL<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Mexico: Supreme Court rules discharge of HIV-positive troops unconstitutional<\/li>\n
- Europe: Court finds lack of medical assistance in Russian detention facility to be in violation of human rights<\/li>\n
- Australia: Coroner recommends prisoners be given access to sterile syringes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Criminal law and HIV\/AIDS: four new cases<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Germany: Man sentenced to five and a half years for endangering and infecting several partners<\/li>\n
- U.K.: Bournemouth court imposes three-and-a-half year sentence for reckless HIV transmission<\/li>\n
- U.K.: Man sentenced to nine years for reckless transmission of HIV and HCV<\/li>\n
- Australia: HIV-positive man facing criminal charges fails attempt to have his identity suppressed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- South Africa: Inmate who refuses ARVs will get hearing about whether he can die at home<\/li>\n
- China: Hospital to compensate 19 people infected with HIV through blood transfusions<\/li>\n
- India: Supreme Court suspends manufacture of ayurvedic medicine being sold as a “cure” for AIDS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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