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Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
If people who need HIV drugs aren’t getting them now, why should the prevention benefit of treatment be the reason that the drugs become available?

The issue of ‘treatment as prevention’ raises a number of ethical issues, Richard Ashcroft, professor of bioethics at Queen Mary University of London told the IAPAC Controlling the

Published
15 June 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
HIV records from NHS trust accidentally sold on the web

The Information Commissioner's Office has come down hard on the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. The watchdog has slapped the trust with a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of £325,000 following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA).

Published
01 June 2012
From
TechEye
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
The ethical implications of “treatment as prevention” in the United States

This article discusses the human rights and ethical implications of treatment as prevention; its authors focus on the United States of America, where the health departments of New York City and San Francisco recommended immediate commencement of antiretroviral therapy for every person who tested HIV-positive, regardless of the state of his or her infection.

Published
31 May 2012
From
HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review
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
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