Health+Law
December 2024

The law plays a powerful role in both public health efforts to address HIV, and in the health and wellbeing of individual people living with the virus. To better understand this intersection between HIV and the law, Health+Law researchers conducted a comprehensive review of HIV-related judgments and tribunal decisions in Australia. This review, titled ‘HIV and the Law in Australia: A Mapping Review of Contemporary Case Law’, is the most comprehensive map of HIV-related case law in Australia since the advent of U=U.

In this webinar, Research Associate Dr Dion Kagan from the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW, talks to Health+Law Research Lead Associate Professor David Carter about this review, what it found about the intersection of HIV and the law in Australia, and what this means for law reform and policy regarding HIV in Australia. 

Health+Law
December 2024

The ‘legal environment’ refers to public health laws and regulations that affect people living with a blood-borne virus directly, but also, importantly, to any law that has an impact on people living with these conditions.

One approach to better understanding the legal environment surrounding hepatitis B is to use legal mapping methods to examine existing legal judgements and decisions that have been made in cases featuring hepatitis B and people living with chronic hepatitis B infection.

The Health+Law team recently published the first ever legal mapping review of hepatitis B-related issues in case law, titled ‘Hepatitis B and the Law in Australia: A Mapping Review of Contemporary Case Law’.

In this webinar, Dr Dion Kagan talks to Associate Professor David Carter, Health+Law Research Lead, about the review’s findings and what they show about the legal environment surrounding hepatitis B in Australia.

Health+Law, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice, UTS Faculty of Law, HALC

Migrating to Australia can be a complex process. For people living with hepatitis B who are navigating this process, there are added complexities that can make it even more challenging.

In this webinar, presented by the Health+Law Partnership, leading experts in Australian migration law and hepatitis B in Australia discuss some of these challenges and provide an overview of this area.

Principal Solicitor Vikas Parwani from the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (HALC) is joined by Health+Law Chief Investigator Associate Professor Anthea Vogl from the Faculty of Law at UTS to explain key aspects of the migration process for people living with hepatitis B, including the important role played by clinicians and others to support better migration outcomes among their patients and clients.

Anthea and Vikas also discuss the recent updates to health waiver requirements, the recent increase to the ‘Significant Cost Threshold’ and clinical notes for guidance that have impacted migration to Australia for people living with hepatitis B, including in positive ways.

This webinar is useful for people working across migration, legal, community and health sectors, migrants and visitors who are living with or affected by hepatitis B, and those that work with people in these communities.

Health+Law, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice, ASHM, HALC, Hepatitis Australia, Hepatitis B Voices, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis

People living with hepatitis B who are visiting or migrating to Australia experience added complexities that make the migration process even more challenging. People who work with these communities, including clinicians, support workers, peers, lawyers and more, are often asked to support people living with hepatitis B who are navigating these complex migration processes.

In this live recorded panel-style webinar speakers discuss and answer questions about hepatitis B, migrating to Australia and migration law as well as the migration process for someone living with hepatitis B, and how clinicians can support better migration outcomes for their patients.

Speakers include:

- ASHM Health Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Benjamin Riley
- Hepatitis B Voices Australia co-founder, Director and Treasurer, Lien Tran
- HALC Principal Solicitor Vikas Parwani
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis Program Director Professor Benjamin Cowie, and
- Lucy Clynes, Chief Executive Officer of Hepatitis Australia

The session is presented by the Health+Law Research Partnership and chaired by Health+Law Partner Investigator and ASHM Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Benjamin Riley.

ASHM, HALC, UTS Law
4 July 2022

Clinicians, support workers, peers and lawyers are often asked to support individuals living with a blood-borne virus through various legal processes, but what do these legal needs look like? How are they changing over time? What impacts do these legal needs have on people with blood-borne viruses, and which are their highest priorities?

ASHM, HALC, UTS Law, Hepatitis Australia, NAPWHA
6 September 2021

HALC Principal Solicitor Alexandra Stratigos and UTS Law’s Dr Anthea Vogl present an overview of migration law in Australia, the migration process for someone living with HIV, and how clinicians can support better migration outcomes for their patients.

The forum, recorded in August 2021, offers clinicians and the broader HIV sector the opportunity to ask some of Australia’s top experts in migration law more about migration and HIV in Australia.