Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The goal of widely available and utilized HIV testing services can be pursued in many ways. At the federal level and in some provinces, governments in Canada state their commitment to human rights-based responses to HIV/AIDS. This not only means ensuring access to HIV...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of 12 info sheets on HIV testing in Canada.Evolution of HIV testing policy and technology in CanadaShifting HIV testing policiesConsent to HIV testingCounsellingAnonymous HIV testingConfidentialityAccess to HIV testingHIV testing and pregnancyRapid...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
A series of six info sheets on legal and ethical issues related to drug use and HIV/AIDS in Thailand.HIV and HCV in Thailand: implications for national drug policyHarm reduction: lessons from the regionSterile syringe programsOpioid substitution treatmentOutreach and...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
From 19–21 April 2007, in Ottawa, Canada, the North-South Institute and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network jointly organized an international expert meeting to discuss Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime, broader global developments related to...
Organization:
2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This paper analyses the recent HIV-specific legislation of seven Central and West African countries from the perspective of human rights. These seven laws (the “laws under consideration”) are:the “Law on prevention, care and control of...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This publication summarizes selected cases in three thematic areas where there has been considerable litigation aimed at protecting and promoting the human rights of people living with HIV, namely:HIV-related discrimination;access to HIV-related treatment; andHIV...
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
Resource Type:
Form or template
Until now, India, Brazil and Thailand have been among the biggest generic ARV producers, both for their own people and for export. This production has been crucial for the supply of affordable treatment in the developing world. It has resulted in competition between...
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 8 contains a prefatory note which...
