Redoubling global efforts to support HIV\/AIDS and human rights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- HIV prevalence in prison is 15 times greater than in the community as a whole<\/li>\n
- New study puts forth HIV treatment as prevention<\/li>\n
- Keeping a common bawdy house becomes a “serious offence” under Criminal Code<\/i><\/li>\n
- Vaccine initiative money reallocated; emphasis placed on research and mother-to-child transmission<\/li>\n
- New legislation to improve Canada’s refugee system troubles advocates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief <\/i><\/p>\n\n- Saskatchewan: HIV infection rate double the national average<\/li>\n
- Federal government’s Truth in Sentencing Act<\/i> threatens to cost billions of dollars and increase prison population<\/li>\n
- HIV\/AIDS and Tuberculosis Parliamentary Caucus forms in Ottawa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Bills in Uganda would infringe upon rights of homosexuals and people living with HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n
- Malawi: President pardons convicted same-sex couple<\/li>\n
- United States of America: Obama administration calls for an end to state criminalization of HIV transmission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Kenya: government to draft policy on HIV and injecting drug use
\nAzerbaijan: new law on HIV includes harm reduction<\/li>\n - Taiwan: government to introduce methadone treatment in prisons<\/li>\n
- Swaziland: prisoners to receive HIV testing and counselling<\/li>\n
- Uzbekistan: government criminalizes negligent HIV infection<\/li>\n
- China: hospital refuses to treat HIV-positive woman<\/li>\n
- Gay marriage legalized in Mexico City and in Argentina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 CANADA<\/b><\/p>\n\n- HIV-positive Haitian man’s application for immigration judicial review dismissed<\/li>\n
- BREAKING: Ontario court strikes down prostitution-related provisions of Criminal Code<\/i><\/li>\n
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
HIV\/AIDS IN THE COURTS \u2013 INTERNATIONAL<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Michigan judge rules that HIV-positive man not a bioterrorist<\/li>\n
- Gay asylum seekers win right to stay in United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In brief<\/i><\/p>\n\n- Zambia: court awards damages to two former military officers in mandatory HIV screening case<\/li>\n
- United States of America: HIV-positive man wins $1.25 million in a privacy case<\/li>\n
- Egypt: new pricing system threatens the availability of generic drugs<\/li>\n
- Kenya: court considers issue of access to affordable medicines<\/li>\n
- Namibia: HIV-positive women sue the government over forced sterilization<\/li>\n
- Kenya: two tuberculosis patients sentenced to prison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
AIDS 2010: LAW, ETHICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- The Vienna Declaration: a call for drug policy reform<\/li>\n
- HIV\/AIDS and drug policy: a new approach for law enforcement<\/li>\n
- Policy advocacy for female injecting drug users in Eastern and Central Europe<\/li>\n
- Criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure: global extent, impact and the way forward<\/li>\n
- Criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure in eight Latin American countries<\/li>\n
- The impact of a state criminal HIV exposure law on residents living with HIV in the USA<\/li>\n
- Switzerland: exclusion of a healthcare professional because he was HIV-positive<\/li>\n
- Using the courts to secure positive law reform for women in Malawi<\/li>\n
- South Africa: Durban’s ante-natal clinic environment and its impact on a woman’s choice to test for HIV during pregnancy<\/li>\n
- Namibia: litigating the cases of sterilization without informed consent of HIV-positive women<\/li>\n
- Integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV\/AIDS in South Africa<\/li>\n
- Health consequences of pre-trial detention in Zambian prisons<\/li>\n
- Emerging human rights issues in China’s response to HIV\/AIDS<\/li>\n
- Europe: securing legal protection against expulsion for HIV-positive migrants<\/li>\n
- New ILO standard on HIV rejects discrimination against HIV-positive workers<\/li>\n
- Zambian court issues groundbreaking decision concerning HIV testing without informed consent<\/li>\n
- Vulnerabilities and rights of migrant sex workers in Europe<\/li>\n
- Implications of PEPFAR’s anti-prostitution pledge for HIV prevention among organizations working with sex workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON HIV\/AIDS, LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n\n- Introduction<\/li>\n
- Panel: Criminalization of HIV non-disclosure \u2013 new development and community responses<\/li>\n
- Panel: Overcoming exclusion \u2013 current research and legal issues in Canadian immigration policy for people living with HIV<\/li>\n
- Panel: Our bodies, our health \u2013 a more comprehensive understanding of maternal health and HIV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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