PWN annual report 2003-2004

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Stories of Community Mobilization

This report presents seven stories of community mobilization. They include:Improving Relations Between the GLBT Community and the Ottawa Police;Fighting to Keep Disability Benefits in Ontario;Addressing Barriers that Put Women in B.C. at Risk;Building a Sense of...

HIV/AIDS and the Privacy of Health Information

The Importance of Privacy of Health Information for People Living with HIV/AIDSPrivacy, Confidentiality, and Privilege: Related Legal ConceptsLegal Protection of Privacy and Confidentiality in Canadian LawPrivacy PrinciplesLimits on Privacy and Confidentiality of...

HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(3) December 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESStill underground: searching for progress in realizing the human rights of women in prostitutionSteps forward, backward, and sideways: Canada’s bill on exporting generic pharmaceuticalsEDITORIALHigh time to vastly scale up action on...

Release of information

A form allowing a doctor to release information about a PWN member's HIV status to PWN.The PWN resources in Sage can be reproduced and adapted for non-commercial use with credit to the author. Please note that resources are being shared for archival reference and...

HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(2) August 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESHuman rights and HIV/AIDS in the context of 3 by 5: time for new directions?Harm-reduction activism: a case study of an unsanctioned user-run safe injection siteCANADIAN NEWSCanada announces new funding for domestic and global fight against...

Facing up to an epidemic: drug policy in Canada

Canada is facing a public health crisis with respect to injection drug use. Rates of blood borne infections among people who inject drugs increased during the 1990s at an alarming rate. By 1996, almost half of all new HIV diagnoses were in people who inject drugs....