TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
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HIV/AIDS and human rights: we’ve only just begunA long way from there to here: human rights approaches to HIV/AIDS in a local settingProtection against discrimination based on HIV/AIDS status in Canada: the legal framework
CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS
- Legal Network launches Plan of Action on HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination
- Alberta review panel recommendations threaten privacy of personal health information
- Medical marijuana developments
- New Brunswick: New sex education curriculum stirs debate
- Standing Committee on Justice re-establishes Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws
In brief
- Quebec activists draws attention to lypodistrophy
- Another call for needle exchange programs in prisons
- Saskatchewan: New regulations designed to reduce needle-stick injuries
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
- Breaking new ground on HIV/AIDS and human rights in China
- Caribbean: Birth of a regional network responding to HIV/AIDS and vulnerability
- Jamaica: Report documents homophobia and violence
- Hungary: Segregation of HIV-positive prisoners breaches national and international standards
- Ukrainian survey of PLHA rights reveals widespread abuses
- Nepal: Legal system HIV/AIDS audit conducted
- Mexico: General Recommendation issued on school-based discrimination against HIV-positive children
In brief
- Botswana: National Policy on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work
- Nigeria: HIV-positive journalism student reinstated after mobilization and threat of legal action
- Nigeria: Public lecture series highlights deficiencies in national law and policy
- Kenya: Law students assist with HIV/AIDS legal clinics
- Ukraine: Advocacy workshops support PLWA rights and advance HIV prevention
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – CANADA
- Canadian AIDS Society granted intervener status is blood donor case
- Criminal law and HIV transmission/exposure: two new cases
In brief
- Court takes HIV status into account in robbery sentencing
- Crown stays assault charge in spitting case
HIV/AIDS IN THE COURTS – INTERNATIONAL
- Colombia: Constitutional Court grants interim order reinstating HIV-positive woman in her job
- Australia: Appeal court upholds compensation for occupational exposure
- Ukraine: Dismissal on the basis of HIV status ruled unconstitutional
- South Africa: “HIV-positive” t-shirt leads to dismissal?
- Criminal law and HIV transmission/exposure: three new cases
In brief
- UK: Court orders reconsideration of asylum case
- Malaysia: Judge refuses to reduce sentence on account of HIV
- New Zealand: Man jailed for lying about HIV status on residency application
- Scotland: Court orders damages and reinstatement for unjust dismissal
- Indian High Court refuses to review challenge to criminalization of homosexuality
- South Africa: Court upholds disciplinary measures against outspoken physician
- South African activists awarded court costs