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Declaration of rights for people living with HIV/AIDS

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:50:03 -0800

Full text of the revised Declaration of Rights for People Living with HIV/AIDS, launched at the NAPWA Conference on 19 November.

Disclosing your HIV status: a guide to some of the legal issues

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:18 -0700

This booklet contains the relevant law on disclosure of HIV status as it applies in New South Wales as at 1 January 2008.

Media frenzy over positive sex worker

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:33:09 -0700

January and February this year were marked by a furore of sensationalist media about Hector Scott, a resident of the ACT who first appeared in the ACT Magistrates court charged with providing a commercial sexual service while knowing he was infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and failing to register as a sex worker.

ACT Health ‘clumsy, alarmist’ in sex worker case

Paul Kidd — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:00:00 -0800

The ACT government’s handling of a case involving an alleged HIV-positive sex worker has been clumsy, alarmist and has failed to follow basic public health guidelines, the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) has said.

US CDC routine testing recommendations not supported by state laws

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations in relation to routine HIV testing would contravene many US state laws requiring pre-test counselling and patient informed consentThe process of learning the key facts about a clinical trial before deciding whether or not to participate. It is also a continuing process throughout the study to provide information for participants. To help someone decide whether or not to participate, the doctors and nurses involved in the trial explain the details of the study., according to an analysis published in October.

Confidentiality on trial in landmark HIV case

Paul Kidd — Sat, 31 May 2003 07:00:00 -0700

A Sydney woman is suing two doctors after they failed to inform her of her partner’s positive HIV and hepatitis B tests.

Not the Sex Police!

David Menadue — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:00:55 -0800

They’ve been called ‘the sex police’ but meeting these three compassionate and understanding nurses, it’s hard to understand why.

Police seek HIV+ man's records

Paul Kidd — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:01:00 -0800

Police in Victoria have sought a court order to access the confidential health records of an HIV-positive man who is under investigation for having unprotected sex with two women.

Declaration of rights

Tue, 30 Nov 1993 06:00:37 -0800

The text of the first NAPWA declaration of rights adopted by the NAPWA Conference in 1993.