Media stories for October 6, 2012

Social housing sites increase number of formerly homeless tenants
Vancouver Courier
Forty per cent of tenants now living in city-owned properties identified as formerly homeless.

Should laws force HIV-positive Canadians to disclose their status to partners?
Global BC
Canada’s highest court will rule Friday, Oct. 5, on whether HIV-positive Canadians who don’t tell their sexual partners of their status should face criminal charges. Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, is quoted.

Failure to disclose HIV status not always a criminal offence, Supreme Court rules
Vancouver Sun
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled today that HIV carriers do not have any legal obligation to inform sex partners about their condition as long as they have a low level of the virus and wear a condom.

Cochlear implants hit 30
Vancouver Sun
Cochlear implants originally performed only on profoundly deaf people are now being used with patients who still have some hearing, says Dr. Brian Westerberg, a specialist in ear surgery at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.