At the end of December 2014 Professor Jean McHale gave an invited keynote presentation on the “Management of HIV positive health care professionals in the UK” at  a conference Itrogenic Transmission of HIV: A Human Rights Issue organized by the Spanish Ministry of Health, University Carlos III Madrid and University de Alcala which was held at the Spanish Ministry of Health in Madrid. 

Professor McHale was invited in relation to her work on human rights and patient confidentiality and her previous membership of the UK Advisory Panel on Blood Bourne Viruses and the Tripartite Working Group which developed the recently published guidance in England on this issue.