Legislation contagion: building resistance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Results of the first North American prescription heroin study are promising<\/li>\n
- New excessive demand policy for immigration applicants<\/li>\n
- British Columbia adopts E-Health Act<\/i><\/li>\n
- (Most) political parties respond to questionnaire on AIDS issues during federal election<\/li>\n
- Immigration and Refugee Protection Act<\/i> amended<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Federal Government announces new strategy to eliminate illegal drugs in federal prisons<\/li>\n
- Manitoba passes forced testing legislation<\/li>\n
- Alberta to make personal medical information available on-line<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Mexico: General Recommendations issued against mandatory HIV testing and discharge from armed forces<\/li>\n
- Cambodia: human trafficking legislation threatens HIV response<\/li>\n
- U.S.: Interim step towards elimination of HIV travel ban<\/li>\n
- Global: Review of injecting drug use and HIV prevalence among users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Uganda: Civil society expresses concern about HIV bill<\/li>\n
- China: Hu Jia wins human rights prize<\/li>\n
- WHO commission reports on social determinant’s of health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 CANADA<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Vancouver’s supervised injection facility granted constitutional exemption from federal drug law<\/li>\n
- HIV-positive man from DRC deemed a “person in need of protection”<\/li>\n
- Federal Court sets aside decision denying Mexican couple’s claim of persecution<\/li>\n
- Court dismisses HIV-positive man’s application for review of decision not to defer removal from Canada<\/li>\n
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Court dismisses Ottawa’s application to uphold federal medical marijuana restrictions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 INTERNATIONAL<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Supreme Court of India approves government commitments on health care for people living with HIV<\/li>\n
- European Court rejects Ugandan woman’s claim to stay in the U.K.<\/li>\n
- South African court bans promotion of vitamin treatments as cures for AIDS<\/li>\n
- South African Court: Military cannot exclude HIV-positive people<\/li>\n
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- HIV-positive Kenyan awarded compensation after being fired<\/li>\n
- Kyrgyzstan: Nine health care workers guilty of negligence causing<\/li>\n
- HIV transmission among children<\/li>\n
- China: Judicial interpretation imposes stricter responsibility for contaminated blood sales<\/li>\n
- Brazilian Appeals Court rules that criminal prosecution for drug possession is unconstitutional<\/li>\n
- Egypt: Sentences upheld for men convicted of “debauchery”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
AIDS 2008: LAW, ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Human rights and HIV\/AIDS: where are we? and what next?<\/li>\n
- Human rights remain marginalized<\/li>\n
- Rights and policy front and centre at the conference<\/li>\n
- Lessons from Africa: combating the twin epidemics of domestic violence and HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n
- Sexual assault, domestic violence and HIV: promoting women’s rights through legislation<\/li>\n
- HIV is a virus, not a crime<\/li>\n
- Pretrial detention: scale and relevance to HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n
- Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Police raids and violence put sex workers at risk of HIV<\/li>\n
- Violence against sex workers by police and military in Democratic Republic of Congo<\/li>\n
- People with disabilities and the AIDS pandemic: making the link<\/li>\n
- Coerced and forced sterilization of HIV-positive women in Namibia<\/li>\n
- Using strategic litigation to strengthen rights in southern Africa<\/li>\n
- Civil society strategy for the compulsory licensing of lopinavir\/ritonavir: the Brazilian case<\/li>\n
- Abuses of women’s rights in sexual and reproductive health-care settings<\/li>\n
- Drawing conceptual linkages: property rights and HIV<\/li>\n
- Measuring for change: a new research initiative by and for people living with HIV<\/li>\n
- Continued challenge posed by HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence<\/li>\n
- Putting the right back into sexual and reproductive rights<\/li>\n
- Yogyakarta Principles: Applying existing human rights norms to sexual orientation and gender identity<\/li>\n
- Rejecting the evidence: Russia’s drug dependence treatment system<\/li>\n
- U.N. guidance note on HIV and sex work “reworked” by activists<\/li>\n
- Recognize sex work as legitimate work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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