Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to R Elliott.
In August 1999, an Ontario trial court granted an employer's motion for a summary judgment dismissing a claim against it by the estate of a former employee who died of AIDS-related illness.
In a decision released in August 1999, the Health Services Appeal Board in Ontario upheld the decision to deny provincial health coverage to an HIV-positive woman who had been denied permanent resident status on the basis of "medical inadmissibility" but was living in Canada on an Immigration Minister's Permit issued on "humanitarian and compassionate grounds."
In May 1999, a Newfoundland trial court sentenced a 30-year-old man after he pleaded guilty to one count of criminal harassment for posting public notices that his ex-girlfriend was HIV-positive and had unprotected sex without disclosing this fact.
At the beginning of October 1999, a Toronto man who owned an escort agency went to trial in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on numerous charges of living off the avails of prostitution and procuring for the purpose of prostitution. On the first day of trial, the prosecutor indicated he would be introducing evidence suggesting that three of the women who worked as escorts for Mark Lucacko's agency may be HIV-positive.
This article reviews new developments in the area of criminal prosecutions for HIV transmission or exposure, or developments that have come to our attention since the last issue of the Newsletter. This column will continue to be a regular feature. However, we will not continue to report cases or legislation from jurisdictions other than Canada unless they represent a significant development, either in this area of the law or for the jurisdiction in question.
In June 1999, a British Columbia human rights tribunal ruled that London Life Insurance Company had violated the province's Human Rights Act in 1994 by refusing to sell life insurance (on his own life) to an HIV-negative man on the basis that his wife is HIV-positive.
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Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
This article discusses nutritional support for patients with HIV. It examines the causes and effects of nutritional difficulties, and explores the aims and methods of providing nutritional support. A patient's nutritional status depends on whether they are symptomatic--as asymptomatic patients do not generally experience nutritional problems.