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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Promoting HIV and hepatitis C prevention programming for prisoners in Canada: Strategic directions for action
Publication date: 2007This summary of strategic directions is based on the report by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Prisoners’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN).
Hard Time: HIV and Hepatitis C Prevention Programming for Prisoners in Canada
Publication date: 2007The goal of this report is to encourage and aid prison systems, other sectors of government, non-governmental and community organizations, and prisoners themselves in responding to the challenges of HIV and HCV, particularly with respect to prevention.
HIV and Hepatitis C in Prisons
Publication date: 2008This is a series of 13 info sheets on HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in prisons.HIV and hepatitis C in prisons: the factsHigh-risk behaviours in prisonsHIV and hepatitis C transmission in prisonPrevention: condomsPrevention: bleachPrevention: needle and syringe...
Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS: Legal Issues
Publication date: 2005This is a series of nine info sheets:IssuesDiscriminationHuman Rights LawDealing with DiscriminationJurisdictional BarriersHealth CareConfidentialityHIV TestingAccess to HIV Testing
“Viral Time Bomb”: Health and Human Rights Challenges in Addressing Hepatitis C in Canada
Publication date: 2008This report looks at current HCV-related policy and programs in Canada and outlines steps that should be taken to prevent a potential explosion of HCV.
Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper re: Demonstrating Canada’s commitment to achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010
Publication date: 2008"As international development, humanitarian, AIDS service, trade union, faith-based and human rights organizations, joined together under the aegis of the Global Treatment Access Group (GTAG), we encourage you to show Canada's commitment to address the global...
Bill C-398 to fix Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR): How does this new bill differ from previous Bill C-393?
Publication date: 2012This document explains the differences between Bill C-398 and previous Bill C-393
Fixing Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR): 20 Questions & Answers
Publication date: 2012In this document:Questions 1 to 4 give a quick overview of CAMR and why it needs to be fixed.Questions 5 to 11 provide more in-depth, background information.Questions 12 to 14 explain the solution for fixing CAMR.Questions 15 to 20 respond to some of the main...
Civil society letter to members of the World Trade Organization re: a further extension of the transition period for Least Developed Countries under article 66.1 of the TRIPS agreement
Publication date: 2013"As civil society organisations concerned with access to medicines, to educational resources, to environmentally sound technologies, and to other public goods and cultural creations and further concerned with farmers’ rights, food security, human...
Don’t Trade Away Health: Brief to Canada’s Minister of International Trade Regarding the Trans‐Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Access to Medicines
Publication date: 2013Billions of people around the world lack access to life‐saving medicines. While this is because of a number of synergistic causes, one critical factor is the prohibitively high cost of patent‐monopolized medications. Provisions currently being negotiated for the...