TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
- Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission: Landmark Decision by South African Court
- Compulsory HIV Testing after an Occupational Exposure
- Establishing Safe Injection Facilities in Canada: Legal and Ethical Issues
- Report on Complementary/Alternative Health Care and HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS in Prisons: New Developments
CANADIAN NEWS
- Concerns Raised about New Immigration Rules
- Physicians Dislike New Medical Marijuana Regulations
- Blood Donor Screening Practices Criticized
- Drug Treatment Court Opens in British Columbia
- BC Introduces a New Social Assistance Benefit, Slashes Others
- British Columbia Poised to Reduce Drug Coverage
- Manitoba to Develop Aboriginal AIDS Strategy
- Ontario Adopts “Blood Samples” Legislation
- New Ontarians With Disabilities Act Finally Adopted
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
- Parliamentarians Take the Initiative on HIV/AIDS
- Other Developments
GLOBAL ACCESS TO TREATMENT
- WTO Ministerial Conference Adopts Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health
- South Africa: Defiance Campaign Continues
- Canada/US: Bioterrorism Highlights Double Standard for Access to Medicines
- Chile: Supreme Court Overturns Ruling Granting Publicly Funded Antiretrovirals
- Reports Lay Out Requirements for Addressing Global Health Needs
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS — CANADA
- Ontario Appellate Court Denies HIV-Positive Man’s Constitutional Claim to Medical Marijuana
- Constitutional Challenge to “Medical Inadmissibility” Provisions in the Immigration Act
- Judge’s Statements in Sentencing HIV-Positive Man Misinformed
- Tax Court Allows Tax Credit for Herbs and Vitamins, Not for Massage
- Court Orders Publication Ban in Trial for Identity of HIV-Positive Witness
- Court Dismisses Appeal for Right to Assisted Suicide
- Ontario Appellate Court Overturns Judgment for Plaintiffs Infected through Tainted Blood
- Criminal Law and HIV Transmission/Exposure: Three New Cases
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS —INTERNATIONAL
- US: Supreme Court Adopts Narrow Definition of “Disability” under Anti-discrimination Law
- US: Appeals Court Dismisses Employment Discrimination Suit by HIV-Positive Dental Hygienist
- US: Hospital Negligent for Failing to Warn Prior Patient of Risk of HIV Infection by Transfusion
- US: Health Department Liable for Incorrectly Telling Man He Had HIV
- South Africa: Damages Awarded to Woman Infected by Husband
- UK: Compensation for Woman Infected through Unprotected Sex
- UK: Court Orders Publication Ban in Case of HIV-Positive Health-Care Worker
- UK: Court Upholds Ban on Condoms at Psychiatric Hospital
- India: Constitutional Challenge to Anti-sodomy Law
- International Update on Litigation on Blood and Blood Products
- Criminal Law and HIV Transmission/Exposure: A Swedish Case