{"title":"Panel--Overcoming exclusion: current research and legal issues in Canadian immigration policy for people living with HIV.","authors":"Laura M Bisaillon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides summaries of presentations made during the panel. Laura Bisaillon presents findings on the activities, actions and practices newcomers undertake as a result of being tested positive for HIV during Canadian immigration medical screening. Michael Battista discusses how to challenge the \"excessive demand\" barrier for HIV-positive newcomers through case law and advocacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"84-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748736","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 impact of a state criminal HIV exposure law on residents living with HIV in the U.S.A.","authors":"Carol Galletly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The United States of America has, by far, the highest number of cases of and convictions for HIV transmission or exposure in the world. Little is known, however, about the impact of this phenomenon on people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs). In this article, based on an oral abstract presentation at AIDS 2010, Carol Galletly provides information on research into the impact on PHAs of the HIV exposure law of the state of Michigan.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"44-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748793","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":"Zambian court issues groundbreaking decision concerning HIV testing without informed consent.","authors":"Priti Patel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>HIV testing is a critical component in the response to HIV. Human rights law requires that it include informed consent, pre- and post-test counselling, and guaranteed confidentiality of test results. In this article, based on her presentation at AIDS 2010, Priti Patel discusses a precedent-setting case in Zambia in which two former members of the Zambian Air Force were subjected to HIV testing without their consent.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"60-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748803","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":"Implications of PEPFAR's anti-prostitution pledge for HIV prevention among organizations working with sex workers.","authors":"Melissa Ditmore, Dan Allman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Even though the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has facilitated access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS across the planet, sex workers are not as fortunate. In this article, based on an oral abstract presentation at AIDS 2010, Melissa Ditmore and Dan Allman present a case-story analysis of the implementation of PEPFAR's anti-prostitution pledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"63-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748805","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":"Criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure in eight Latin American countries.","authors":"Tamil Kendall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the prosecution of HIV transmission or exposure has been widely documented in Western Europe and North America, Latin America has not figured in this trend. In this article, based on an oral abstract presentation at AIDS 2010, Tamil Kendall reviews HIV-specific legislation and instances of prosecution in eight countries in the region, and discusses how civil society might respond.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"42-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29748792","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":"Redoubling global efforts to support HIV/AIDS and human rights.","authors":"Michel Kazatchkine","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The role that human rights can play in the global response to HIVIAIDS is crucial. People around the world continue to be placed at risk of HIV due to ongoing human rights violations. In this article--based on a public lecture he gave at \"From Evidence and Principle to Policy and Action\", the 2nd Annual Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights, held on 10-12 June 2010 in Toronto, Canada--Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, discusses how the lack of support for programs that protect and promote human rights is one of the failures in the response to AIDS. He stresses that advocates must reinvigorate efforts for human rights and treatment and prevention for all, including for the most marginalized populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"1, 67-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749323","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 study puts forth HIV treatment as prevention.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new study from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) confirms that the benefits of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) extend far beyond treatment and include dramatic secondary preventive benefits.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749325","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":"Vaccine initiative money reallocated; emphasis placed on research and mother-to-child transmission.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When the federal government officially announced in February 2010 the cancellation of a CAN dollars 88 million project to establish a pilot-scale HIV vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada, it was unclear how the money would finally be used. However, in July the announcement came that the funds would be reallocated to research and to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"15 1","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29749327","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":"Criminalizing HIV transmission or exposure: the context of francophone West and Central Africa.","authors":"Cécile Kazatchkine","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nations throughout the world are increasingly criminalizing HIV transmission or exposure. This trend, already very familiar to high-income countries such as Canada, the United States of America and some European nations, takes on a special meaning in Africa, where several national HIV/AIDS laws make HIV transmission or exposure a crime.</p>","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"14 3","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29561754","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":"Criminal law and cases of HIV transmission or exposure.","authors":"Caroline Brett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87184,"journal":{"name":"HIV/AIDS policy & law review","volume":"14 3","pages":"40-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29561770","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}