{"title":"Namibia: litigating the cases of sterilization without informed consent of HIV-positive women.","authors":"Linda Dumba","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reports of the forced sterilization of pregnant HIV-positive women first surfaced in 2008. In this article, which is based on an oral abstract presentation at AIDS 2010, Linda Dumba outlines the litigation work that her organization, the Legal Assistance Centre, has done on behalf of 16 HIV-positive women sterilized without their informed consent.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"50-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748797","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":"New ILO standard on HIV rejects discrimination against HIV-positive workers.","authors":"Ronald Brands","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>2010 saw a significant development in advocating for enhanced rights protection of HIV-positive workers: the adoption of an International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendation on HIV/AIDS in the employment sphere. In this article, based on a presentation made at AIDS 2010, Ronald Brands outlines the key components of the document and how it seeks to protect employees and job-seekers from discrimination on the grounds of real or perceived HIV status.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"58-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748802","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":"HIV prevalence in prison is 15 times greater than in the community as a whole.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A report released in April 2010 by Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) on infectious diseases and risky behaviours reveals elevated HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) rates in federal prisons, and calls for the implementation of urgent comprehensive harm reduction measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749324","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":"New legislation to improve Canada's refugee system troubles advocates.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite significant improvements, the new Balanced Refugee Reform Act (the Act) contains contentious provisions regarding Canada's asylum system, according to refugee advocates.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"10-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749328","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":"Using the courts to secure positive law reform for women in Malawi.","authors":"Seodi White","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women's inheritance and property rights are essential to an effective response to HIV/AIDS. For women living with HIV, denial of these rights can lead to loss of shelter and livelihood, result in dislocation from their social safety nets and, because of stigma and gender-based discrimination, jeopardize their access to testing, treatment, care and support. In this article, based on a symposium presentation at AIDS 2010, Seodi White discusses efforts in Malawi to challenge the country's current approach to marital property.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"47-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748795","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":"Europe: Securing legal protection against expulsion for HIV-positive migrants.","authors":"Caroline Izambert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>International human rights and refugee law prohibits deportations to a state where the deportee would be at risk of being subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. In the case of Europe, case law is inconsistent in regard to HIV-positive migrants. In this article, based on a presentation at AIDS 2010, Caroline Izambert discusses recent case law from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concerning migrants affected by HIV and how legal protection against the deportation of others can be ensured.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"57-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748801","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}
Stéphanie Claivaz-Loranger, Barry D Adam, Shannon Thomas Ryan, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Glenn Betteridge, Lisa Power
{"title":"Panel--Criminalization of HIV non-disclosure: new development and community responses.","authors":"Stéphanie Claivaz-Loranger, Barry D Adam, Shannon Thomas Ryan, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Glenn Betteridge, Lisa Power","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides summaries of the six presentations made during the panel. Stéphanie Claviaz-Loranger gives an overview of the recent developments in Canadian law since R v. Cuerrier. Barry Adam discusses views of people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) with respect to the criminalization of HIV transmission and exposure. Shannon Thomas Ryan discusses the racialized nature of criminalization. Eric Mykhalovskiy explains the available policy options for Ontario concerning criminalization, and calls on the Ministry of the Attorney General to establish a consultation process to inform the development of policy and practice memoranda. Glenn Betteridge discusses the development and work of the Ontario Prosecutorial Guidelines Campaign. Finally, Lisa Power presents the experience of England and Wales with regard to HIV criminalization.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"74-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748735","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":"HIV-positive Haitian man's application for immigration judicial review dismissed.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On 28 April 2010, the Federal Court dismissed Joseph Frantz Nicolas's application for judicial review of an immigration officer's rejection of his pre-removal risk assessment (PRRA) application.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"21-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749332","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":"Gay asylum seekers win right to stay in United Kingdom.","authors":"Kelly Sinclair","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that gay men facing persecution in their home countries have the right to asylum in the United Kingdom. This decision comes as a response to an appeal by two gay men who had their applications for asylum rejected on the basis that they could choose to keep their personal lives to themselves.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"29-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749335","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":"The Vienna declaration: a call for drug policy reform.","authors":"Michaela Montaner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Vienna Declaration was launched as the official declaration of AIDS 2010. It was drafted by a team of international experts and initiated by the International AIDS Society, the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. In this article, Michaela Montaner describes how the declaration seeks to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"36-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749337","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}