FEATURE
- Clean switch: the case for prison needle and syringe programs
- CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS
- Quebec’s funding cut endangers study on alternative treatment for people addicted to heroin
- Constitutionality of gay blood donor ban challenged in court
In brief
- Report: Cancelled prison tattoo initiative had potential to reduce disease transmission
- Municipal support on Vancouver Island for access to crack pipe kits
- Rapid, free and anonymous HIV testing for gay and bisexual men in Montréal
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
- Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession
- Burundi: New Penal Code criminalizes homosexuality
- Uzbekistan: Government discontinues pilot opiate substitution therapy program
- Indonesian parliament adopts strict anti-drug law
- India refuses patent protection for two key HIV drugs
- Cambodian Government creates de facto AIDS colony
- U.K.: Success of heroin prescription trials
- The U.N. system issues calls to strengthen harm reduction interventions
- Russia: Future of harm reduction uncertain
In brief
- U.S. repeals HIV immigration and travel ban
- Mozambique: Parliament adopts law on domestic violence amid protests that the law discriminates against men
- Mali: Law on women’s equality in marriage blocked
- Zambia: Debate regarding compulsory HIV testing continues
- Kazakhstan: Violations of fire safety rules lead to tragedy in drug treatment facility
- Armenia amends HIV law, repeals travel ban for foreigners with HIV
- Uruguay: New law allows same sex adoptions
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS — CANADA
- Court decision extends long-term income support to those dependent on alcohol or drugs
- Federal Court orders judicial review of Hungarian Roma man’s pre-removal risk assessment
- Guatemalan man’s application for judicial review of negative assessment dismissed
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure
In brief
- Court strikes down restriction in medical marijuana program
- Quebec tribunal allows dental assistant to request alternate tasks while breastfeeding to reduce risk of HIV infection
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS — INTERNATIONAL
- India: Delhi High Court annuls law criminalizing adult homosexual relations
- U.S.: Extended jail sentence of HIV-positive pregnant woman from Cameroon overturned
- Constitutional Court of South Africa overturns lower court’s decision on the right to “sufficient water”
- Rulings in Argentinean and Colombian courts decriminalize possession of small amounts of narcotics
- Russia: Despite legislative and procedural barriers, HIV-positive woman fights for custody of ten-year old brother
- Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure
In brief
- Iran: Two world-renowned physicians working on HIV prevention incarcerated
- South Africa: High Court orders law enforcement to stop arresting sex workers
- Update: Senegal court overturns convictions against AIDS activists
- Australia: Dismissal of gay blood donor complaint
- Northern Ireland: HIV patient’s discrimination case settled
FIRST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON HIV/AIDS, LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS