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HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 13(2/3) December 2008
 

FEATURE

• Legislation contagion: building resistance

• Results of the first North American prescription heroin study are promising
• New excessive demand policy for immigration applicants
• British Columbia adopts E-Health Act
• (Most) political parties respond to questionnaire on AIDS issues during federal election
• Immigration and Refugee Protection Act amended

• Federal Government announces new strategy to eliminate illegal drugs in federal prisons
• Manitoba passes forced testing legislation
• Alberta to make personal medical information available on-line

• Mexico: General Recommendations issued against mandatory HIV testing and discharge from armed forces
• Cambodia: human trafficking legislation threatens HIV response
• U.S.: Interim step towards elimination of HIV travel ban
• Global: Review of injecting drug use and HIV prevalence among users

• Uganda: Civil society expresses concern about HIV bill
• China: Hu Jia wins human rights prize
• WHO commission reports on social determinant’s of health

• Vancouver’s supervised injection facility granted constitutional exemption from federal drug law
• HIV-positive man from DRC deemed a “person in need of protection”
• Federal Court sets aside decision denying Mexican couple’s claim of persecution
• Court dismisses HIV-positive man’s application for review of decision not to defer removal from Canada
• Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure

• Court dismisses Ottawa’s application to uphold federal medical marijuana restrictions

• Supreme Court of India approves government commitments on health care for people living with HIV
• European Court rejects Ugandan woman’s claim to stay in the U.K.
• South African court bans promotion of vitamin treatments as cures for AIDS
• South African Court: Military cannot exclude HIV-positive people
• Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure

• HIV-positive Kenyan awarded compensation after being fired
• Kyrgyzstan: Nine health care workers guilty of negligence causing
• HIV transmission among children
• China: Judicial interpretation imposes stricter responsibility for contaminated blood sales
• Brazilian Appeals Court rules that criminal prosecution for drug possession is unconstitutional
• Egypt: Sentences upheld for men convicted of “debauchery”

• Human rights and HIV/AIDS: where are we? and what next?
• Human rights remain marginalized
• Rights and policy front and centre at the conference
• Lessons from Africa: combating the twin epidemics of domestic violence and HIV/AIDS
• Sexual assault, domestic violence and HIV: promoting women’s rights through legislation
• HIV is a virus, not a crime
• Pretrial detention: scale and relevance to HIV/AIDS
• Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Police raids and violence put sex workers at risk of HIV
• Violence against sex workers by police and military in Democratic Republic of Congo
• People with disabilities and the AIDS pandemic: making the link
• Coerced and forced sterilization of HIV-positive women in Namibia
• Using strategic litigation to strengthen rights in southern Africa
• Civil society strategy for the compulsory licensing of lopinavir/ritonavir: the Brazilian case
• Abuses of women’s rights in sexual and reproductive health-care settings
• Drawing conceptual linkages: property rights and HIV
• Measuring for change: a new research initiative by and for people living with HIV
• Continued challenge posed by HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence
• Putting the right back into sexual and reproductive rights
• Yogyakarta Principles: Applying existing human rights norms to sexual orientation and gender identity
• Rejecting the evidence: Russia’s drug dependence treatment system
• U.N. guidance note on HIV and sex work “reworked” by activists
• Recognize sex work as legitimate work

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