Organization:
Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA)
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“In keeping with the government’s stated commitment to harm reduction and to evidence-based policy, the Legal Network recommends two amendments to strengthen Bill C-37, with a view to ensuring the legislative framework for securing exemptions from the Controlled Drugs...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
We urge the Standing Committee on Social Policy to uphold the human rights of sex workers by rejecting Bill 96, the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2017, as it does not help end trafficking but endangers the safety and security of vulnerable people, particularly migrant...
Organization:
Peer-to-Peer Program, Population & Public Health Services – Regina, Saskatchewan Health Authority
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
This is a current resource.This form is to describe the purpose of the program and qualifications of the mentor. It is to be reviewed with the Peer Program Coordinator and mentor during the application process.Please contact the contributor at (306)766-6857 to request...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The public health and human rights rationale for prison-based needle and syringe programs Programs that ensure access to sterile injecting equipment are an important component of a comprehensive approach to reducing the vulnerability of prisoners to HIV and HCV...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is one in a series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada.
Organization:
Peer-to-Peer Program, Population & Public Health Services – Regina, Saskatchewan Health Authority
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
This is a current resource.Information sheet provided to outside agencies.Please contact the contributor at (306)766-6857 to request permission to use.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Booklet
In Canada, Indigenous people experience higher rates of injection drug use and less access to health care than non-Indigenous people. For many Indigenous people, drug use offers a means of coping with traumatic life circumstances, including those related to their...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (“IRPA”) stipulates that foreign nationals are inadmissible to Canada on health grounds if their health condition might reasonably be expected to cause an “excessive demand” on health or social services, or if they have an...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“On behalf of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, I am writing to you because we are deeply concerned about Ontario’s approach to prosecuting allegations of HIV non-disclosure. We request that you immediately undertake the following actions to put an end to unjust...
