Organization:
National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID)
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This paper discusses potential biological mechanisms that may be contributing to the observed phenomena of increased susceptibility to and progression of HIV and HCV in solvent users.
Organization:
Canadian Public Health Association
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This document examines public health’s knowledge, information needs, roles, opportunities, challenges and capacity to introduce and deliver new HIV prevention technologies in Canada. The report presents the findings of various data collection methods including...
Organization:
Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA)
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Organization:
CATIE
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
On March 4, 2010 in Montreal QC, preceding the Leading Together Skills Conference, a day-long satellite meeting was organized to identify strategic priorities in research and programming in gay men’s health and HIV prevention in Canada. This report reflects the...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
This tool kit informs community advocates about pre-exposure prophylaxis, a potential safe and effective form of prevention against HIV that involves administering antiretroviral medications to those at risk of HIV infection. You'll learn what PrEP is, what trials...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This discussion paper examines the housing situation in Canada, looks at other national strategies, and makes recommendations to be considered in a national housing strategy.
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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
What do people in prison have to say about the Canadian government’s unwillingness to permit the distribution of clean needles in prison?Between 2008 and 2009, interviews were conducted in person and over the phone in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba,...
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...
Organization:
The CIHR Social Research Centre in HIV Prevention (SRC)
Publication date: 2010
Format:
Video
Resource Type:
Presentation
As part of our Guest Lecture Series, the SRC welcomed Mary Crewe, Director of the Centre for the Study of AIDS, University of Pretoria, South Africa, who provided an international perspective on social and structural interventions, insights and transferable...
