[Ip-health] World Bank: Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS. A Guide for Policy and Law Reform

[Judit Rius Sanjuan]

InfoShop, The Global HIV/AIDS Program, Human Development Network invites yo=
u to a book launch of a recent World Bank publication

Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform Written by a t=
eam of eminent legal scholars and practitioners, this book summarizes key l=
egal and policy issues for 65 wide-ranging topics related to HIV/AIDS.  The=
 concise format will be useful for policy makers,  HIV/AIDS practitioners, =
lawyers, the media and others seeking clear, precise information. The Guide=
 shows how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good publi=
c health programs and responsible personal behaviors.  It provides relevant=
 practice examples (citing from actual laws and regulations) and offers sel=
ective lists of references.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

For non bank staff, please rsvp to infoShopevents@worldbank.org
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Introduced by
JOY PHUMAPHI
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at the World Health Organiza=
tion
as the Assistant Director General for the Family and Community Health
Department.  Before that, she served in the Parliament and as Minister for
Health of Botswana.

Presented by Authors
LANCE GABLE
Assistant Professor of Law , Wayne State University.
Mr. Gable is  co-editor (with David Buchanan and Celia Fisher) of Ethical a=
nd
Legal Issues in Research with High Risk Populations: Addressing Threats of
Suicide, Child Abuse, and Violence (forthcoming 2007), author of numerous
professional journal articles, reports, and other publications, and was gue=
st
editor (with Lawrence O. Gostin and Colleen Flood) of the symposium issue
Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Around the World.

KATHARINA GAMHARTER
Counsel
Ms. Gamharter has served as Counsel/Legal Associate in the Environment &
International Law Practice Group as well as the Latin America Operational
Practice Group, World Bank Legal Vice Presidency.  She is the author of Acc=
ess
to Affordable Medicines: Developing Responses under the TRIPS Agreement and=
 EC
Law (2004), and other publications and professional journal articles relate=
d to
trade law and intellectual property. Previously she was Assistant Professor=
 at
the Europainstitut, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administrat=
ion.

LAWRENCE GOSTIN
Associate Dean and O?Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown Unive=
rsity
Mr. Gostin is Member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Scie=
nces
(lifetime), Editor (Health Law and Ethics), Journal of the American Medical
Association, Co-Editor, Georgetown University Press book series, Ethics, He=
alth,
and Public Policy, and a member of the Editorial Board or Editorial Advisor=
y
Board of 20 professional journals.  He is the author of The AIDS Pandemic:
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations, and the author, co-au=
thor,
or co-editor of over 30 other books or monographs as well as author or co-a=
uthor
of well over 100 professional journal articles in the health field.

JAMES HODGE, JR.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Execu=
tive
Director, Centers for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns
Hopkins Universities; and Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center
Mr. Hodge teaches and lectures extensively in public health law,bioethics, =
and
health information privacy, has authored (or co-authored)over 75 articles i=
n
professional journals and over 50 reports and other publications on public
health law, bioethics, and human rights.

RUDOLF VAN PUYMBROECK
Independent adviser on health law and international development and Adjunct
Faculty,Georgetown University
Mr. Van Puymbroeck was formerly Lead Counsel, Public Health and HIV/AIDS, L=
egal
Advisory Services, World Bank Legal Vice Presidency.  He is a member of the
World Bank?s Editorial Committee, former member of the World Bank?s Researc=
h
Committee (2000-2003),  and co-author (with Frederick M. Abbott) of Compuls=
ory
Licensing for Public Health: A Guide and Model Documents for Implementation=
 of
the Doha Declaration Paragraph 6 Decision. He is former Editor of Comprehen=
sive
Legal and Judicial Development: Toward an Agenda for a Just and Equitable
Society in the 21st Century,  The World Bank Legal Review: Law and Justice =
for
Development, and the Law, Justice and Development series.

Comments by
DEBREWORK ZEWDIE
Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program, World Bank
Ms. Zewdie is the Director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program for the World Ban=
k.
She was recruited to this position from the Africa Region of the Bank where=
 she
managed the AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), which is responsible=
 for
the US$1 billion Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP I and II) for Africa.
Before joining the Bank in 1994, Ms. Zewdie was Deputy Regional Director of=
 the
Africa Region for the AIDS Control and Prevention project (AIDSCAP) of Fami=
ly
Health International in Nairobi, Kenya and worked in sixteen African countr=
ies.

For more information or to order the book, please click on the link below:
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Judit Rius Sanjuan
Attorney
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