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
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:
Form or template
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is pleased to report that Bill C-9, the Government’s legislation aimed at eliminating conditional sentencing for certain criminal offences, was amended before passing third reading in the House of Commons so that it no longer...
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:
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 1 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This executive summary provides an overview of a policy paper1 that outlines the barriers to access to the federal medical cannabis program, to a legal source of cannabis, and to adequate information and services.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
The first in a series of nine fact sheets about various aspects of cannabis and HIV/AIDS.
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 3 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
There has recently been a movement on the part of the newly elected federal government to consider mandatory sentences and stiff penalties for drug offenders. However, scientific evidence indicates that mandatory minimum sentences only worsen the health-related harms...
