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Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Kenya: Doctors who played God

More than 35 HIV positive women are considering taking action against hospitals and their husbands or family members who participated in their sterilisation. They insist that they were sterilised through coercion, and sometimes without their knowledge, because they were HIV positive.

Published
21 May 2012
From
Daily Nation
Tuberculosis and HIV
No more TB suspects: time to change the way we talk about tuberculosis

The words ‘defaulter’, ‘suspect’ and ‘control’ have been part of the language of tuberculosis (TB) services for many decades, and they continue to be used in international guidelines and published literature. The detrimental effect of such negative language is detailed by TB experts from around the world in an article.

Published
17 May 2012
From
Stop TB Partnership
Health services and systems
Keeping Track of HIV Care

In a time when increasingly limited funding depends on evidence of success, data management has become one of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s most important contributions to the AIDS sector in Chicago. Since 2009, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has worked to build out ClientTrack, a client-level database, as a tool to create, manage, and analyze information about the people we serve.

Published
15 May 2012
From
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Tuberculosis and HIV
India: TB declared a notifiable disease - what does this mean for people living with HIV, diagnosed with TB

What does notification of TB diagnosis to TB authorities mean for patients and their families? Has the community which is most vulnerable (e.g. HIV+), health groups in India been consulted on what this means for patient confidentiality?

Published
14 May 2012
From
TB Online
Human rights
UNAIDS calls on Greece to protect sex workers and their clients through comprehensive and voluntary HIV programmes

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses its concern over recent actions by Greek authorities involving the arrest, detention, mandatory HIV testing, publication of photographs and personal details, and pressing of criminal charges against at least 12 sex workers. There is no evidence that punitive approaches to regulating sex work are effective in reducing HIV transmission among sex workers and their clients.

Published
11 May 2012
From
UNAIDS press release
Human rights
Greece: Joint Letter to UN Special Rapporteur on Health

We are writing to call your attention to two issues of urgent and serious concern in Greece: (1) the administrative detention and compulsory medical testing of immigrants and asylum seekers based on health status and (2) the arrest, criminal prosecution and compulsory HIV testing of sex workers.

Published
11 May 2012
From
Human Rights Watch
Sex workers
Matthew Weait on the Greek brothel arrests

HIV criminalization has compounded, and added a new and frightening dimension to, the longstanding idea that female sex workers are a source of pollution threatening the cleanliness of men.

Published
03 May 2012
From
The Times That Belong To Us
Immigration
Greek government creates extensive powers to detain migrants and refugees

The government of Greece is planning a programme of programme of mass incarceration of tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers residing within its borders.

Published
03 May 2012
From
Migrants Rights Network
HIV and criminal law
Greece arrests 17 HIV-positive women in brothels

Greek authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of 17 HIV-positive women who allegedly worked illegally as prostitutes, accusing them of intentionally causing serious bodily harm. The names and photographs of 12 of the women were published on the Greek Police's website, angering human rights advocates who said it was unclear whether the women were aware they had HIV.

Published
03 May 2012
From
The Associated Press
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
NHS Hit With Its First Data Breach Fine

An NHS body in Wales gets hit with a £70,000 fine after sensitive data is sent to the wrong patient.

Published
01 May 2012
From
Tech Week Europe
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