Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Needle and syringe programs (NSPs) are a proven, cost-effective way of reducing the transmission of bloodborne viruses such as HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) among people who use drugs. They do not result in increased crime in neighbourhoods nor do they lead to drug use....
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:
Report
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Many Canadian provinces have passed legislation that authorizes testing someone for HIV without his or her consent. This document provides information about occupational exposure to HIV, and the legal and human rights concerns raised by forced 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 7 contains a prefatory note which...
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...
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:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) received funding to study the barriers to access to cannabis for medicinal purposes for people living with HIV/AIDS. We conducted an extensive consultation of people living with HIV/AIDS from across Canada through focus groups and a...
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
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...
