This report focuses on three important areas of concern:
- the lack of adequate and effective protections in Canadian law for the right of people living with HIV/AIDS to keep their personal health information private;
- clauses in legislation that permit a person to disclose another person’s personal health information, including the health information of a person living with HIV/AIDS, without that person’s consent (“discretionary disclosure”); and
- the inadequacy of legislative remedies for breaches of confidentiality.