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Migration officials' access to NHS records 'to be tightened'

The expected concession comes after pressure from MPs worried about patient confidentiality.

Published
09 May 2018
From
BBC Health
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
AIDS counseling for refugees in Germany: Let's talk about sex!

Without a dildo, but with a condom: This is sex education for refugees, conducted by refugees. InfoMigrants reports from Zirndorf on how AIDS and HIV are discussed in Germany’s asylum-seeker reception facilities.

Published
27 March 2018
From
Info Migrants
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
A guide for migrants in the face of concerted dehumanisation

Today, MRN is launching a Know Your Rights guide for migrants. We want to help migrants understand and assert their rights in a context where these are being systematically eroded and routinely denied.

Published
14 March 2018
From
Migrants' Rights Network
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Our data isn't safe with the NHS - NHS Digital must be rebuilt

NHS Digital's decision to defy the Health Committee recommendation demonstrates starkly that NHS Digital has no real independence but is part of Whitehall, to be leant on by the Home Office or any other government department at will. It has failed totally in its duty to protect patient data, and indeed to understand the basic principles of medical confidentiality which it is meant to champion.

Published
05 March 2018
From
NAT
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
Call for evidence – Memorandum of understanding on data-sharing between NHS Digital and the Home Office

What is the public health impact of the Memorandum of Understanding on data sharing between NHS Digital, the Home Office, and the Department of Health, particularly on health seeking behaviour and health outcomes of the migrant population?

Published
14 February 2018
From
Migrants' Rights Network
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
He can't get proper HIV treatment in Venezuela. But he's being deported anyway

Ricardo Querales, who is HIV positive, faces deportation back to Venezuela, where he claims he will die because there is no medication to treat his illness.

Published
05 February 2018
From
Miami Herald
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
Canada: It's time to stop linking 'loose morals' to immigrants with HIV

A recent example of blatant prejudice is a part of a bigger story about how the Canadian immigration system processes applications made by people with HIV infection. There are more directives governing HIV infection than any other health condition in the immigration system.

Published
02 February 2018
From
The Conversation
Migrants, refugees and displaced people
NHS chiefs urged to stop giving patient data to immigration officials

NHS chiefs have been asked to immediately suspend handing over confidential patient data to the Home Office to track down potential immigration offenders as part of its “hostile environment measures”.

Published
31 January 2018
From
The Guardian
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Migrants 'should not have to fear GP practices', MPs told

GP practices should not be turned into a ‘place of fear’ for migrant patients who are frightened their personal data could be shared with the authorities, MPs were told today.

Published
22 January 2018
From
Pulse
Experiences of stigma
How Many People in Haiti Have AIDS? Trump's Alleged Insult Immigrant Insult Doesn't Reflect Facts

The Trump administration spent the holiday weekend fending off the uproar over President Donald Trump’s reported insults about largely black immigrants, especially his alleged insistence that thousands of Haitians bound for the United States “all have AIDS.” But the remark wasn't just offensive — it’s certainly also incredibly wrong.

Published
26 December 2017
From
Newsweek
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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