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Concerns grow for detained Angolan activist

2 June 2015 In Angola, there is growing concern about a detained rights activist’s health. José Marcos Mavungo was arrested in March for alleged crimes against the security of the…

Staff Writer3 June 2015

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Sex workers, ARVs and the irrationality of excluding foreigners

In recent weeks, the Government of Botswana has announced plans to provide anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy to all sex workers regardless of their CD4 counts. The commendable aim of the initiative, as described by the…

Annabel Raw26 May 2015

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Malawi High Court to deliver landmark ruling on HIV mandatory ruling

19 May 2015 The Malawi High Court will on Wednesday deliver landmark ruling on HIV and AIDS mandatory testing in a case of State versus Mwanza Police, District Hospital Ministry…

Staff Writer21 May 2015

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Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case

The Nation The High Court in Blantyre yesterday ruled in favour of 11 sex workers who were subjected to a mandatory HIV test in Malawi’s southern district of Mwanza in…

Staff Writer21 May 2015

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Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

By Anneke Meerkotter, Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and Ian Southey-Swartz, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) In 2009, a group of women, presumed to be sex workers, was arrested as…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Malawi: Mandatory HIV testing of women

On 10 March 2011, eleven women from Mwanza, Malawi, filed an application in the Blantyre High Court challenging their subjection to mandatory HIV tests, the admission of the HIV test…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Equality Rights Health Malawi

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT SAYS MANDATORY HIV TESTING VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Blantyre, 20 May 2015 – Today, Justice Dorothy nyaKaunda Kamanga, handed down judgment in the Blantyre High Court in…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

20 May 2015 Malawi High Court judge Justice nyaKaunda Kamanga on Wednesday ruled that the police and the medical personnel violated the rights of 11 Mwanza women by subjecting them…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS ACQUITTAL OF HIV ACTIVIST, PAUL KASONKOMONA

Lusaka, 15 May 2015 – Today, Justice Judy Mulongoti confirmed the 2014 ruling of His Worship Lameck Ng’ambi in which he acquitted human rights activist, Paul Kasonkomona. In April 2013, Kasonkomona was arrested after…

Staff Writer15 May 2015

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ORGANISATIONS SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE INTERVENTION REGARDING FORCED AND COERCED STERILISATION IN NAMIBIA

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and four other human rights organisations, concerned with the forced and coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV/AIDS in Namibia, have requested the UN…

Staff Writer13 May 2015

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Equality Rights Health

Concerns grow for detained Angolan activist

Sex workers, ARVs and the irrationality of excluding foreigners

Malawi High Court to deliver landmark ruling on HIV mandatory ruling

Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case

Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

Malawi: Mandatory HIV testing of women

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS ACQUITTAL OF HIV ACTIVIST, PAUL KASONKOMONA

ORGANISATIONS SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE INTERVENTION REGARDING FORCED AND COERCED STERILISATION IN NAMIBIA

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