On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released important decisions in two cases of HIV non-disclosure; namely, R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C. Mabior is a man who had sex with several women...
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Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011.
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Please note that the sections of this document that describe the current state of the criminal law as it relates to HIV non-disclosure do not take into account the recent Supreme Court of...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Please note that the sections of this document that describe the current state of the criminal law as it relates to HIV non-disclosure do not take into account the recent Supreme Court of...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
1. Laws and practices that criminalize people living with HIV and vulnerable to HIV
A) People who use drugs
B) People in prison
C) Sex workers
D) Criminalization of HIV non-...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Two provincial Courts of Appeal have recently released unanimous decisions that clarify the law regarding the obligation imposed upon people living with HIV to disclose their HIV status prior to...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
This document will inform you about:
- when there is a legal duty to disclose HIV-positive status;
- the current evidence about the risk of HIV transmission with and...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
This document will inform you about:
- when there is a legal duty to disclose HIV-positive status;
- the current evidence regarding the impact of ARV treatment and viral...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Update: the Supreme Court of Canada's February 2012 hearing of two appeals about when people living with HIV may be convicted of a crime for not disclosing their HIV status to sexual partners.
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
"These appeals raise the question of whether the offence of aggravated sexual assault can and should be established for HIV non-disclosure in circumstances where, in the Interveners’ submission,...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
"There are many human rights challenges that must be tackled in order to respond effectively to the ongoing, twinned pandemics of HIV and of HIV-related human rights abuses ... we wish to...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
A series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada.
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
This article was commissioned in advance of the XIX International AIDS Conference — to be held in July 2012 in the U.S. for the first time since 1990 — to provide an overview of the current...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
On June 25, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided to postpone hearing appeals in two prosecutions for HIV non-disclosure, R v. M and R v. F, until after the Supreme Court of Canada delivers its...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in the cases of Mabior and D.C. The Court decided that people living with HIV have a legal duty, under the criminal law, to...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
On October 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in the cases of Mabior and D.C. The Court decided that people living with HIV have a legal duty, under the criminal law, to...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2011 to November 30, 2012.
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
These submissions are informed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network’s and the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario’s (HALCO) extensive experience in working on the issue of the criminalization of...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Judging the epidemic has been prepared as a resource to help judges, magistrates, arbitrators and other judicial officers throughout the world adjudicate cases involving HIV-related issues. This...
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Publication date: 2013
Highlights of our work in Canada and around the world from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013.
Organization: Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2013
The final instalment in a series of six fact sheets about HIV and Aging in Canada.
Organization: Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2013
The fifth in a series of six fact sheets on HIV and Aging in Canada.
Organization: Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2013
The fourth in a series of six fact sheets on HIV and Aging in Canada.
Organization: Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2013
The third in a series of six fact sheets on HIV and Aging in Canada.