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For some people HIV testing remains a touchy subject, while others only want to be tested anonymously for privacy reasons. But Kaiser says that despite member complaints, the test records won't be deleted. Critics say the episode is a taste of things to come.
17 May 2013 | Oregon Live
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Heads of schools are grappling with an unusual instruction, after the government ordered them to declare the HIV status of all their people, including students.
22 April 2013 | AllAfrica
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A promise from health officials in Kansas has helped state legislators get by a dispute over a bill that advocates feared could lead to people with HIV/AIDS being quarantined, The Kansas City Star reports.
16 April 2013 | Poz magazine news
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Very disappointing news from Botswana. The Public Health Bill – including all of its draconian provisions on HIV – has been approved by Parliament.
08 April 2013 | HIV Justice Network
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Last week Thursday, marked a sad day in the history of human rights. Parliament rejected all amendments aimed at ensuring that being HIV positive does not take away one's dignity. Parliament decided to entrench the violation of human rights, even more so, the rights of those living with HIV.
08 April 2013 | Mmegi Online
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From the beginning of next year, the European Medicines Agency will release all information about clinical studies submitted to it by organisations seeking authorisation for new treatments. As this deadline approaches, heated parliamentary and legal debates are raging to determine how far this new culture of open access should go.
05 April 2013 | Financial Times
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In researching alleged 2011 Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) data breaches, investigative reporter Todd Heywood discovered that MDCH “secretly collected” personal information—names, dates of birth, risk categories, and other demographic data—on people (and their partners) who went to government grant-funded organizations for confidential testing. Heywood reports that the state is using the private information in civil and criminal cases against HIV-infected people who present a “health threat.”
08 March 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network
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The Uganda Human Rights Commission has opposed mandatory HIV testing as envisaged in the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill that is before parliament. The bill provides for routine HIV testing of victims of sexual offences, pregnant women and their partners, but the commission is of the view that the provision does not specifically state as to whether their consent is necessary - suggesting that testing would be mandatory.
28 February 2013 | New Vision
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The Ministry of Health has today, Feb.26, come out to clarify recent media reports that all people seeking treatment from public health facilities across the country will be required to undergo mandatory HIV testing first.
27 February 2013 | AllAfrica
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From one perspective, a method that a woman need only renew once every three months was a gift. One injection four times a year and no fear of unwanted pregnancy. But the potential for abuse of this method was obvious from the beginning, and abuse there was, from paternalistic family planning providers.
20 February 2013 | BMJ Group blogs
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