{"title":"Reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS.","authors":"Ralf Jürgens","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24582820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Québec: an outbreak of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.","authors":"David Garmaise","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the space of a few weeks in January 2004, actions by three different institutions in Québec combined to threaten the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, raise the spectre of mandatory HIV testing, and create unnecessary public fears about the spread of HIV infection. In response to what they called \"the worst weeks in recent history for people living with HIV/AIDS in Québec,\" the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and COCQ-Sida (the Québec coalition of community-based organizations fighting AIDS) called for a province-wide campaign against HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination. A victory was achieved when a Montréal catholic seminary announced that it had backed down from its initial proposal to mandatorily test all applicants for priesthood for HIV, but much more is needed to fight the rapid outbreak of mandatory-testing proposals.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"15-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24582821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eastern Europe and Central Asia: report identifies human rights gaps.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Criminalization and stigmatization of the high-risk behaviours that promote the spread of HIV are fuelling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and placing millions of people at risk. This is one of the findings of a report from the United Nations Development Programme released in February 2004. The report, which is the first comprehensive profile of the epidemic in the 28 countries of the region, includes a significant focus on human rights issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"37-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24582711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limits on CPP survivor benefits for same-sex couples unconstitutional.","authors":"Gord Cruess","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On 19 December 2003, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice declared the federal government's Canada Pension Plan (CPP) survivor benefits regime as it applied to same-sex couples unconstitutional. Under the law, survivors in same-sex relationships could not receive benefits if their partner had died prior to 1 January 1998, while no similar restriction was imposed on opposite sex-relationship survivors. In Hislop v Canada, Justice Macdonald found this cut-off date to be unconstitutional because it denied gay and lesbian survivors equality of the law.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"52-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24581892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ontario Securities Commission has authority to investigate viatical settlement purchase program.","authors":"Gord Cruess","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On 27 October 2003, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that the Ontario Securities Commission (the Commission) has the authority to compel testimony and the production of written documents from parties that are not registered under the Ontario Securities Act (OSA). The finding in Universal Settlements International, Inc v Ontario (Securities Commission) is important because it affirms the authority of the Commission to investigate businesses that might be engaging in the sale of illegal viatical settlements, an unregulated industry with potential negative impacts for people living with HIV/AIDS.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"55-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24581894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kenya: AIDS-law sensitization results in schooling for orphans.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a landmark victory for children living with HIV/AIDS, in January 2004 the Kenyan High Court approved an agreement between the government and the Nyumbani Children's Home whereby the Ministry of Education will admit HIV-positive children to government schools. Prior to the agreement, government practice was to refuse admission of children from the Nyumbani Children's Home, Kenya's oldest and largest AIDS orphanage, on grounds such as that the school was full to capacity or that the applicant had failed to produce a birth certificate. This was in spite of the fact that Kenya's schools are already overcrowded and that births are often unregistered.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"33-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24582706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rick Lines, Ralf Jürgens, Heino Stöver, Gulnara Kaliakbarova, Dumitru Laticevschi, Joachim Nelles, Morag MacDonald, Matt Curtis
{"title":"Dublin Declaration on HIV/AIDS in Prisons in Europe and Central Asia. Prison health is public health. Dublin, Ireland, February 23, 2004.","authors":"Rick Lines, Ralf Jürgens, Heino Stöver, Gulnara Kaliakbarova, Dumitru Laticevschi, Joachim Nelles, Morag MacDonald, Matt Curtis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"41-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24582713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Canada: Court affirms that prisoner health information must be treated as private and personal.","authors":"Grant Holly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On 8 April 2003, the Federal Court of Canada - Trial Division ruled that Correctional Services Canada (CSC) does not have a duty to warn an inmate of the potential violence or health hazards posed by a cellmate in the absence of clear and foreseeable danger.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"49-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24582718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supreme Court upholds criminal prohibitions on possession of marijuana for recreational use.","authors":"Gord Cruess","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In two recent decisions, R v Malmo-Levine and R v Caine (decided together) and R v Clay, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the criminal prohibition on marijuana possession, in the absence of a regulatory exemption for medical purposes, is constitutional.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"54-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24581893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developments in South African law on HIV/AIDS.","authors":"Liesl Gerntholtz, Marlise Richter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>South Africa has a powerful legal framework that offers high levels of protection to people living with HIV/AIDS, yet discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS continues to be widespread in South African society. Court cases decided in 2003 regarding children's issues and health care testify to this ongoing discrimination, and to the potential of the South African legal system to uphold the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.</p>","PeriodicalId":83647,"journal":{"name":"Canadian HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"9 1","pages":"57-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24581895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}