After a shock diagnosis, Carlos attained an Australian visa only after an ‘intrusive’ process
June 2025: VIKAS PARWANI interviewed on migration health requirements for people with HIV.
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A beacon of hope for the forgotten
April 2025: VIKAS PARWANI featured in an article by Law Society Journal on his life and career.
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HIV Organisations Call for Repeal of Mandatory Disease Testing
Quote by VIKAS PARWANI in the 10 February 2025 ACON Media Release.
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Living with HIV in the Workplace: what are your rights?
Article by BETHANY RODGERS and TAYLAH SPIROVSKI in the Spring Issue of Poslink+ Quarterly.
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Important Announcement from HALC
September 2024: HALC newsletter
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HIV-related Legal Needs, Demographic Change, and Trends in Australia since 1992: A Review of Legal Administrative Data
ALEXANDRA STRATIGOS using data from the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre discusses nature and trends of HIV-related legal issues in New South Wales since 1992.
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Evidence-based drug policy: learning from the HIV epidemic and COVID-19
Article by RHYS EVANS on Community Legal Centres NSW website.
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Ending the criminalisation of HIV transmission and discrimination against people living with HIV
Article by RHYS EVANS on Community Legal Centres NSW website.
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HIV and the Law – recent developments in public health and criminal laws
December 2017 Law Society Journal Article/
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Review and Analysis of Australian Laws and policies relating to restrictions on entry, stay and residence for people living with HIV
UNAIDS-commissioned report prepared by HALC solicitors and colleagues.
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Stairs, Not Ramps – Australia’s Approach to Migration and Disability
ALEXANDRA STRATIGOS explains the Australian approach to migration for visa applicants with a disability, with specific reference to HIV and the health waiver process.
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Disclosure in Rural and Regional New South Wales
LANCE FEENEY and MELISSA WOODROFFE summarise concerns raised by local community members in Rural and Regional New South Wales at a series of HIV treatment forums during 2012.
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In regional NSW, slight cover from the harsh glare of ‘Open Justice’
IAN BRADY canvasses issues surrounding a legal case in regional NSW involving HIV.
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Positive Changes to Australian Migration Law were short lived
ALEXANDRA STRATIGOS provides an update to the article below on opportunities for people with HIV to obtain permanent and temporary visas to live in Australia.
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Positive Changes in Migration Law
ALEXANDRA STRATIGOS outlines some recent steps that open up opportunities for people with HIV to obtain a visa to live in Australia temporarily or permanently.
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Health Care in Custody: State fails its duty of Care
ALEXANDRA STRATIGOS and IAIN STEWART BRADY call for greater measures to protect the health of HIV-positive people in custody.
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HIV and Consent – When Yes Means No
INDRAVEER CHATTERJEE highlights problems arising from the use of archaic laws to inform contemporary cases, such as how legal definitions of ‘consent’ affect criminal cases involving HIV transmission.
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Don’t ask: don’t tell – Act right: play safe!
IAIN BRADY outlines the operations of HIV disclosure in NSW and its impact, both in theory and in practice, on HIV-positive people.
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Closed Courts Open Door To Justice
Court and Tribunal powers to utilise suppression orders in relation to a person’s HIV status.
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The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission in Australia: Legality, Morality and Reality
A monograph produced by NAPWA in 2009, including a chapter by MELISSA WOODROFFE – Criminal Transmission of HIV in Australia.
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Time to Revise Criminalisation of HIV
MELISSA WOODROFFE and GINA MITCHELL
With the exception of cases where individuals actually intend to do harm, criminalising HIV transmission does not empower people to avoid HIV infection, and in fact may make it more difficult for them to do so, endangering both public health and human rights.
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The Duty of Disclosure in Insurance Law
INDRAVEE CHATTERJEE
There’s a question on an insurance form asking if you have HIV. Do you have to say yes?
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