The HIV Legal Network (www.hivlegalnetwork.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research and analysis, advocacy and litigation, public education and community mobilization. The Legal Network is Canada’s leading advocacy organization working on the legal and human rights issues raised by HIV/AIDS.
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HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(2) August 2004
Publication date: 2004TABLE 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...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(3) December 2004
Publication date: 2004TABLE 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...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 10(1) April 2005
Publication date: 2005TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESHIV/AIDS and human rights: we’ve only just begunA long way from there to here: human rights approaches to HIV/AIDS in a local settingProtection against discrimination based on HIV/AIDS status in Canada: the legal frameworkCANADIAN...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 10(2) August 2005
Publication date: 2005TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESThe criminalization of HIV transmission in England and Wales: questions of law and policyCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSHIV disclosure no longer required on application form for temporary resident visaSafer tattooing piloted in six federal...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 10(3) December 2005
Publication date: 2005TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESInjection drug use, HIV/AIDS and incarceration: evidence from the Vancouver Injection Drug Users StudyLegal Network report calls for decriminalization of prostitution in CanadaCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSReport calls for changes to the law to improve...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 11(1) April 2006
Publication date: 2006TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATUREScaling up HIV testing: human rights and hidden costsCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSHealth Canada authorizes access to experimental HIV drugs, but only after a long struggleQuestion period: how will Canada’s new minority government approach...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 11(2/3) December 2006
Publication date: 2006FEATURESCanada’s 2003 renewed drug strategy — an evidence-based reviewWill they deliver treatment access?: WTO rules and Canada’s law on generic medicine exportsThe CDC’s routine HIV testing recommendation: legally, not so routineCANADIAN...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 12(1) May 2007
Publication date: 2007FEATURESMale circumcision and HIV prevention: a human rights and public health challengeCommentary: Engendering bold leadership against HIV/AIDSCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSSubcommittee fails to recommend legal reforms needed to promote human rights of sex workersConservative...
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 12(2/3) December 2007
Publication date: 2007FEATURESLegislation contagion: the spread of problematic new HIV laws in Western AfricaDrug treatment courts in Canada: an evidence-based reviewUse of soft law to address HIV/AIDS in Southeast AsiaCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSSupervised injection facility granted another...
HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 13(1) July 2008
Publication date: 2008FEATURESDelivery past due: global precedent set under Canada’s Access to Medicines RegimeDeveloping guidance for HIV prosecutions: an example of harm reduction?Access to condoms in U.S. prisonsCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSLegislation imposing mandatory minimum sentences...