Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 3 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
There has recently been a movement on the part of the newly elected federal government to consider mandatory sentences and stiff penalties for drug offenders. However, scientific evidence indicates that mandatory minimum sentences only worsen the health-related harms...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The objective of this paper is to begin to identify a variety of short-term legal and rights-based strategies that can mitigate the immediate impact of HIV/AIDS in terms of HIV prevention and improving the lives of women who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.This...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
The second in a series of nine fact sheets about cannabis and HIV/AIDS.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
FEATURESCanada’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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of 12 info sheets:HIV/AIDS and HCV in prisons: the factsHigh-risk behaviours behind barsHIV transmission in prisonCondoms and prevention of sexual abuseBleach and other disinfectantsNeedle and syringe programsOpioid substitution treatmentCare and...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 4 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
TABLE 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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of case studies outlining how laws and policies dealing with various aspects of HIV/AIDS can and should be based on human rights laws and principles.Criminalization of sex work(ers): The human rights case for law reformPregnancy and HIV testing...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 5 contains a prefatory note which...
