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HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
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 sexual relations. The decision of the Manitoba Court of Appeal in R v....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
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 without condoms;the current state of the law about condom use and HIV disclosure; andwhy people who use...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
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 load on the risk of HIV transmission;the current state of the law regarding viral load and HIV...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
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.
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HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
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Report
"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, there is no 'significant risk' of transmission because...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
"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 highlight one phenomenon of growing global concern and...
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HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
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Fact sheet
A series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
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 disconnect between evidence and law in the U.S. and to discuss how...
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HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
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 decisions in two other cases, R v. Mabior and R v. DC, anticipated later...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
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PDF
Resource Type:
Report
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 disclose their HIV-positive status to sexual partners before having sex...
