HIV

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Uganda Makes "Intentional Transmission" Of HIV A Crime

Elias Biryabarema | Reuters | May 14, 2014

Uganda has made it a crime to "wilfully and intentionally" transmit the HIV virus and made it legal for medical staff to disclose a patient’s HIV status to others without his or her consent.  The law was passed on Tuesday, a parliamentary spokeswoman said, in response to a resurgence in HIV infections in a country that was once hailed as a success in the global fight against AIDS...

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VA, DoD Now Can Share More Sensitive Medical Records

Marla Durben Hirsch | Fierce Health EMR | November 2, 2011

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is loosening a rule that unduly restricts it from sharing information about certain sensitive medical conditions with the Department of Defense (DoD), according to an announcement made by the VA last week. Read More »

Why Privatisation Is Killing the NHS [United Kingdom]

Steve Taylor | Huffington Post | September 23, 2014

...I thought it would be useful to share with you the effects which the Health and Social Care Act are having on our NHS, and how privatisation is taking doctors and nurses away from frontline care, turning valued colleagues into the competition, and potentially jeopardising the fantastic services that we have spent years trying to build...

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