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...
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 6 contains a prefatory note which...
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 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:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2005
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of six info sheets on the disability income and other benefit programs people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada rely upon:HIV/AIDS and income insecurityEmployment Insurance sickness benefitLong-term disability insuranceCanada and Quebec Pension Plan...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2005
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Ce travail s’inscrit dans des efforts plus vastes et soutenus pour assurer que les personnes vivant avec le VIH/sida, et en particulier de pays en développement, ne rencontrent pas d’obstacles superflus dans leur projet de visiter le Canada pour le Congrès...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2005
Format:
PDF
TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESInjection drug use, HIV/AIDS and incarceration: evidence from the Vancouver Injection Drug Users StudyLegal Network report calls for decriminalization of prostitution in CanadaCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSReport calls for changes to the law to improve...
