TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURE
- Scaling up HIV testing: human rights and hidden costs
CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS
- Health Canada authorizes access to experimental HIV drugs, but only after a long struggle
- Question period: how will Canada’s new minority government approach HIV/AIDS?
- HIV-positive woman suing police, man who allegedly infected her and his family
- Medical marijuana users continue to experience legal barriers
- New developments in mandatory blood testing legislation
- Health care workers push for use of safer hypodermic needles
- Vancouver safe injection facility: more positive results
- Gay man launches suit over refusal to accept blood donation
In brief
- Vancouver police crack down on drug users, safe injection facility
- Toronto City Council adopts drug strategy
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
- WTO approves TRIPS amendment on importing under compulsory licensing
- Who killed HIV/AIDS activist Steve Harvey?
- Thais protest US-Thai FTA talks
- Lesotho embarks on universal HIV testing
- CEE/CA: Report calls for decriminalization of sex work
- UK: Legal action launched against government’s guidelines on non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis
- Lithuania: Legal Network meeting discusses model legislation project
In brief
- Russian Federation: Duma repeals Russian Criminal Code reforms
- UK: Home Office announces new policy initiative on prostitution
- Germany: Study shows effectiveness of prison needle exchange
- UK: Groups call for comprehensive response to HIV and hepatitis in prison
- Australia: ACT considers prison needle exchange program
- Namibia: Anti-homosexuality law undermines HIV prevention in prisons
- India: UNAIDS claims law criminalizing homosexuality hinders HIV prevention
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – CANADA
- Supreme Court clarifies immigration medical inadmissibility provision
- Federal health information privacy cases from 2005
- Criminal law and HIV transmission/exposure: five new cases
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – INTERNATIONAL
- UK: Court of Appeals upholds deportation orders of four people with HIV
- India: Exclusion of people with HIV from police force unconstitutional, administrative tribunal holds
- Australia: Court recognizes that HIV-positive people face special challenges in prison
- U.S.: Kansas court strikes down harsher penalty for gay underage sex
- Criminal law and HIV/AIDS: four new cases
In brief
- Australia: HIV-positive applicant for permanent residence obtains waiver of medical inadmissibility
- Australia: Court quashes sentence of man convicted for HIV transmission
- U.S.: Arizona ordered to cover HIV-positive woman’s organ transplant
- UK: House of Lords refuses leave to appeal HIV transmission conviction
- Libya: Death sentences of foreign health care workers overturned