What do we mean by an ‘enabling legal environment’?
At Health+Law, the ‘legal environment’ we are concerned with refers to all laws and regulations that affect the lives of people living with Hepatitis B or HIV in Australia as a result of their condition – which is to say, Australian laws and regulations related to public health generally and blood-borne viruses (BBVs) specifically.
Why Health+Law? And why now?
Health+Law is a project to seek out and eliminate the legal issues causing harm to people living with HIV and Hepatitis B in Australia. As we get started with this necessary and long-overdue work, we want to communicate what makes it so important.
“When research brings together the quantitative measurement of an issue with the richness and depth of qualitative conversations, we have the opportunity to enrich the debate around the specific legal and health needs of specific populations within the wider community.”
Dr James Brown, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UTS