On 11 November 2010, the AnqingYinjiang District Court ruled that a local education board did not unlawfully discriminate against an HIV-positive college graduate when it decided not to employ him upon discovering his HIV status.
On 11 November 2010, the AnqingYinjiang District Court ruled that a local education board did not unlawfully discriminate against an HIV-positive college graduate when it decided not to employ him upon discovering his HIV status.
On 14 July 2009, the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) rejected the claim for refugee protection of B.L.H., an HIV-positive man from Swaziland. B.L.H. made a Convention refugee claim on the basis of his membership in a particular social group, claiming a fear of persecution based on his HIV-positive status. B.L.H. also claimed that he was in need of protection in accordance with Section 97 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
The topic of integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIVIAIDS received substantial attention at AIDS 2010. Establishing linkages between the two plays a crucial role in efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. In this article, based on a presentation at AIDS 2010, Marieta deVos discusses what has been done to bring together SRHR and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
The U.S. White House has issued a new strategy on HIV/AIDS that, among other things, calls for an end to state laws that make the transmission of HIV a crime.
In the following article, Edwin J. Bernard provides a summary of a satellite meeting co-organized by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and NAM, held just prior to AIDS 2010, in which advocates working to end the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure, exposure and non-intentional transmission shared experiences of national and international advocacy responses to help inform future strategies.
People who live with HIV routinely encounter barriers to occupations in the health care sector. In this article, which is based on a workshop presentation, Caroline Suter discusses a Swiss case in which a young man was denied access to training as an operating room technician (ORT) because he was HIV-positive.
On 2 June 2010, the trial court in Macomb County, Michigan, dismissed charges against an HIV-positive man brought under the state's "bioterrorism" statute. David Allen was charged in November under a provision of the statute that prohibits the manufacture, delivery, possession, use or release of a harmful biological substance.
A key reason for hosting AIDS 2010 in Vienna was to highlight the spread of HIV through injecting drug use, something that has reached crisis proportions in many parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In this article, based on a presentation at the conference, Anna Zakowicz discusses the options for promoting policy advocacy for female injecting drug users (IDUs) in Central and Eastern Europe.
This article provides summaries of presentations made during the panel. Shari Margolese outlines the work of the Canadian HIV Fertility Program on behalf of HIV-positive women and men looking to conceive. Khatundi Masinde presents research on the impact of gender, race and stigma on the housing experiences of African and Caribbean mothers living with HIV in Canada. Suzannah Phillips discusses the violations of reproductive rights of HIV-positive women, including forced or coercive sterilization.
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