Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics

Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics features

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  The beginning of change: the 2010 CHIVA summer camp

  Following on from our issue looking at young people, in October, guest writer Bakita Kasadha talks to the organisers and participants in the UK’s summer camp for teenagers...

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Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics news from aidsmap

• Asylum seekers should not be forced to take HIV test, say MPs

  The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS have rejected the idea that mandatory HIV testing should be forced upon migrants and asylum seekers entering the UK in a report released today that damns current immigration policy as ...

  10 July 2003 | Edwin J. Bernard

• ‘Treatment as prevention’ must not violate human rights, conference told

  The expansion of HIV testing programmes and the advocacy of universal testing and treatment of those who test positive as a means of prevention must not violate the human rights of target populations, the Fifth IAS ...

  21 July 2009 | Gus Cairns

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• Austria: Man accused of criminal HIV transmission fights "unconstitutional" forced blood test

  A man in Austria is taking a case to the Constitutional Court that challenges the forcible testing of blood for HIV (as well as for use in phylogenetic analysis) that was legalised on 1 January 2012 through an amendment of the Criminal Procedure Code by the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2011.

  18 January 2012 | Criminal HIV Transmission

• Harare clinics force HIV/AIDS tests for pregnant women

  In a move that is likely to raise the ire of HIV/AIDS activists, maternity clinics in the city are conducting compulsory HIV/AIDS tests on pregnant women before they can register for delivery The Zimbabwean can exclusively reveal.

  18 January 2012 | The Zimbabwean

• Local Michigan county wants to force meds on HIV criminal suspect

  Sangeeta Ghosh, assistant corporate counsel for Kent County, Mich., says should the 51-year-old man charged in two cases of failing to disclose his HIV-positive status to sexual partners make bail, the county is prepared to ask a court to force him to take antiretroviral medications.

  11 January 2012 | American Independent

• Atlanta man used HIV patients' data to defraud Medicaid

  An Atlanta man who volunteered to help HIV patients and then used that access to obtain their personal information and defraud Georgia's Medicaid program is headed to prison, state prosecutors said Wednesday.

  05 January 2012 | Atlanta Journal Constitution

• South Africa: Democratic Alliance's new HIV clanger

  A senior DA politician has become the latest member of his party to become embroiled in a battle with medical experts and NGOs after questioning why people in SA should not be tested for HIV/ Aids without their consent. 

  15 December 2011 | Independent Online

• South Africa: Democratic Alliance's new HIV clanger

  A SENIOR DA politician has become the latest member of his party to become embroiled in a battle with medical experts and NGOs after questioning why people in SA should not be tested for HIV/Aids without their consent.

  14 December 2011 | Independent Online

• Why Housing Works Opposes NYC’s New HIV Guidelines

  Instead of participating in a decision to start ARVs, many patients will simply do what their doctors tell them to do. But then we’ve come to expect top-down command-and-control outrages from the health department when it comes to HIV.

  09 December 2011 | Housing Works

• New York: City Responds on HIV Surveillance

  The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is defending its proposals to more widely share information that it currently collects on people with HIV with doctors and other health departments.

  08 December 2011 | Gay City News

• PM eyes NHS-industry partnership

  David Cameron is to detail plans to "open up" the NHS to private health firms, which could include sharing anonymous patient data.

  05 December 2011 | BBC Health

• HIV test campaign fails to warn people about privacy

  A new public campaign encouraging all adults to get an HIV test doesn’t do enough to warn people about confidentiality concerns related to electronic health records, says the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

  02 December 2011 | Vancouver Sun

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