People living with HIV

Human Rights and Drug Control Policy

Organization: HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Form or template

Increasingly, human rights monitors, mechanisms and NGOs have begun to focus on drug policies and their impact on human rights protections, but this rarely happens in a connected or thematic way. These briefing papers are intended to provide a basic overview of some...

PWA Position Paper – Poz Prevention

Organization: Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA)
Publication date: 2010
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Report

PWA Position Paper – Treatment as Prevention

Organization: Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA)
Publication date: 2010
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Report

Accessibility of HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care Services for People who Use Drugs and Incarcerated People in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: Legislative and Policy Analysis and Recommendations for Reform

Organization: HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Report

This report analyses national programmes on HIV and drug control, administrative and criminal laws, and relevant governmental decrees and ministerial orders which were in effect in 2007–2009 in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and...

PWA Poz Prevention – Position Paper

Organization: Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA)
Publication date: 2010
Format: PDF

Learning From Each Other: Enhancing Community-Based Harm Reduction Programs and Practices in Canada

Organization: Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2008
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Report

Produced with the aim "to document and disseminate information on innovative and useful ways that harm reduction programs and practices are being offered in some of Canada's small to mid-sized cities, and some of the more effective ways that challenges to...

HIV, Disability and Human Rights — Opportunities offered by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Organization: HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Report

There are many links between HIV and (other) disabilities. As a result, there are growing calls for partnership between HIV activists and disability activists in responding to human rights concerns, including discrimination.

The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa Act and its Impact on Improving Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment in Developing Countries

Organization: HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Form or template

This document assesses some of the measures taken recently to improve access to more affordable ARV therapy in developing countries. It provides a synopsis of the key WTO rules and developments, and of the Canadian law, the concrete benefits of which have yet to be...

Needle and Syringe Programs and Bleach in Prisons: Reviewing the Evidence

Organization: HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Form or template

A substantial amount of scientific evidence has shown that needle and syringe programs (NSPs) in the community are the most effective intervention available to prevent HIV transmission associated with injecting drug use. As well, NSPs have been associated with...

HIV and Hepatitis C in Prisons

Organization: HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format: PDF
Resource Type: Fact sheet

This 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...