HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 5(2-3) Spring/Summer 2000

FEATURES

  • Supreme Court rules on disability discrimination
  • HIV/AIDS and the Law: New challenges

HIV/AIDS IN CANADIAN COURTS

  • Medical treatment of children with HIV/AIDS
  • Court rejects appeal for safe supply of medical marijuana
  • Appeals heard on both medical and non-medical marijuana
  • BC Appellate Court dismisses insurance appeal
  • Man with HIV gets reprieve from deportation
  • Discrimination in employment alleged
  • Federal Court of Appeal strikes claim for extending patent term

AIDS VACCINES

  • HIV Vaccine: Ethics and Human Rights
  • New guidelines on ethical considerations in HIV prevention vaccine research
  • The 18 Guidance Points

HIV TESTING & CONFIDENTIALITY

  • Reform MP proposes compulsory testing
  • Rapid HIV Screening at the Point of Care: Legal and Ethical Issues

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • Criminal Law and HIV/AIDS: Update III

CARE, TREATMENT AND SUPPORT

  • Mixed WTO Ruling on Generic Drug Development
  • Panel Rules against Canada on Patent Terms for Pre-TRIPS Patents

INSURANCE

  • US Supreme Court Allows Limits on AIDS-Related Insurance Benefits

LEGAL CLINICS

  • The BC Persons with AIDS Society Advocacy Department

DISCRIMINATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  • HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, and Development
  • HIV-Related Discrimination in New Brunswick Increasing

PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED

  • Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood and the Politics of Medical Disaster
  • The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women: Perspectives on the Pandemic in the United States
  • Female and Male Prostitution

NEW PUBLICATIONS

  • Handbook for More than Legislators on HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights
  • Background Paper on Legal and Ethical Issues Related to HIV/AIDS Care, Treatment and Support

DRUG POLICY

  • Canadian senate Committee to Review Drug Laws and Policies

HIV/AIDS IN PRISONS

  • Evaluation of Needle Exchange Pilot Projects Shows Positive Results
  • HIV/AIDS in Prisons: More New Developments
  • Surveillance and Prevention of Hepatitis C in Australian Prisons

SPECIAL SECTION: HIV/AIDS AND THE LAW

  • HIV/AIDS and Legal Issues in Australia
  • Switzerland, the Law and HIV: An Overview
  • HIV/AIDS and Legal Issues in England and Wales
  • India
  • Workshops on “HIV/AIDS: The Law and Ethics”
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