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Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Physicians to be told they must treat HIV carriers

Doctors do not have the right to refuse to treat patients, the Israeli Medical Association's ethics committee said yesterday, countering arguments in favor of doctors' discretion when receiving HIV patients.

Published
06 February 2013
From
Haaretz
HIV and criminal law
Effort to enforce HIV 'health threat' law raises questions

A new University of Michigan study reveals that health officials employ the state's names reporting database, alongside partner services referrals, for law enforcement purposes.

Published
31 January 2013
From
Medical Xpress
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
HIV trial under scrutiny

A potential breakthrough in the quest to prevent HIV and AIDS has collided with sensitivities about testing expensive drugs in poor parts of the world.

Published
17 January 2013
From
Nature.com
Discrimination and the law
China’s mandate to hospitals reveals persistent discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients

Agence France Presse and other outlets report that the Chinese Ministry of Health has issued a mandate ordering all hospitals to provide HIV/AIDS patients with proper care. The mandate was issued after a lung cancer patient was denied hospital treatment because of his HIV/AIDS status.

Published
09 January 2013
From
Health and Human Rights
Discrimination and the law
Israeli physicians could get green light to deny HIV treatment

The ethics committee of the Israel Medical Association is pointedly refusing to tell doctors that they must treat HIV carriers in all instances.

Published
08 January 2013
From
Haaretz
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Botswana: Public health bill shocking and regressive

The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), is shocked by the introduction of a Public Health Bill which our Parliament is currently debating. This Bill has some provisions that have no place in a democratic and modern day Botswana. It has provisions that are counter-productive, discriminatory, unconstitutional and barbaric.

Published
10 December 2012
From
International HIV/AIDS Alliance / Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Uganda: HIV/ Aids Bill Almost Ready

A joint civil society coalition, made up of more than 40 organisations, including human rights groups, has urged Parliament to review the clauses on mandatory testing of HIV, mandatory disclosure of a person's HIV status and the criminalisation of intentional spread of the disease.

Published
03 December 2012
From
All Africa
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Serbia man wins false HIV compensation

A Serbian court has ordered a hospital to pay 4,000 euros ($5,200) in compensation to a man who claimed his life was ruined when he was falsely diagnosed with HIV, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Published
26 November 2012
From
The Nation
Health services and systems
Australia: HIV health care goes online

People living with HIV/AIDS can now register for their own eHealth record. The system connects GPs, private specialists and pharmacies, and some include hospitals, allowing each to share patient information and creating a viable online record.

Published
26 November 2012
From
Sydney Star Observer
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Jail Nurse Blabbed About Inmate's HIV, Says Lawsuit Against Sheriff

Sheriff Paul Kaupas and a private nursing company were also named in the suit filed by the attorney for an unidentified man with HIV.

Published
20 November 2012
From
Patch
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