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:
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 5 contains a prefatory note which...
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:
Realize (previously CWGHR)
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
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 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...
