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Clinical trials
Big pharma, big data

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.

Published
05 April 2013
From
Financial Times
Employment
New York Man Says He Was Fired For Having HIV

A New York City man claims he was abruptly fired from his finance job at a car dealership after his employer learned he is HIV-positive.

Published
05 April 2013
From
ABC News
HIV and criminal law
Kansas: Protection from quarantine for HIV, AIDS patients is discriminatory, state senator says

A bill that a leading gay rights advocate says will lead to the harassment of people with AIDS appears headed toward approval. House Bill 2183 would repeal a 25-year-old law that prohibits state and local health officials from quarantining people with AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Published
04 April 2013
From
Lawrence Journal-World
Immigration
Study: Undocumented Latinos Get Into HIV Treatment Dangerously Late

A recent study conducted at a free clinic in Houston found undocumented Latinos with HIV infections enter care with more advanced disease than other patients. Despite getting medical care at later dates, however, undocumented Latinos with HIV achieved similar success in treatment as documented Latino and white patients.

Published
04 April 2013
From
ColorLines
HIV testing
Review shows HIV self-testing to be acceptable, accurate and feasible, but finds little data on linkage to care for those testing HIV positive

Self-testing for HIV is highly acceptable to people in a variety of settings, investigators report in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. The authors reviewed the results of 21

Published
04 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
History of HIV and AIDS
The Crime of Being Positive: the development of HIV laws in the 1980s

In the 1980s corporations, conservatives, and fear turned HIV-positive people into outlaws.

Published
02 April 2013
From
The Advocate
HIV and criminal law
A Spectacle of Stigma: A First-hand Account of a Canadian Criminal HIV Exposure Trial

I recently attended the criminal HIV exposure trial of two young men in Kitchener, Ontario. Each was found guilty of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault for exposing (but not infecting) two other men to HIV. They are now liable for a Life Sentence

Published
02 April 2013
From
AIDS Action Now
HIV and criminal law
Law Enforcement and HIV Policy Groups Release Fact Sheet for Police on HIV Risks - “Spit Does Not Transmit”

The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and the American Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (AAPA) today released a new fact sheet that they hope will bring law enforcement officers up to speed on the real risks of HIV that they face from possible exposure to the bodily fluids of those they police.

Published
02 April 2013
From
HIV Justice Network
HIV and criminal law
Four Stories: The Effects of HIV Criminalization on Sex and Intimacy

Four people disclose the impact of HIV laws and how they adjust their lives.

Published
02 April 2013
From
Advocate.com
HIV and criminal law
HIV case headed to Minnesota Supreme Court draws national interest

Medical experts and civil liberties advocates nationwide are weighing in on the Minnesota Supreme Court case of an HIV-positive Twin Cities man convicted and later cleared of a felony for having unprotected sex, arguing that the 17-year-old state law under which he was convicted should be rewritten in the interest of science and justice.

Published
02 April 2013
From
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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