Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Increasingly more people who use drugs are locked away in the name of drug rehabilitation without any real access to medical care or legal recourse. Drug users rarely enter such detention centers voluntarily, and even if they do, they nearly never are allowed to leave...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Shadow Report to the UN Committee against Torture in relation to the review of the Fifth Periodic Report of the Russian Federation.This report considers facts, reasons for and conditions for mistreatment of drug users in Russia.Authors: Andrey Rylkov Foundation,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
"We write to express our grave concern at reports of the Thai government’s plans to round up and ‘treat’ 30,000 people who use drugs from 20-27 February…. We ask that the Government urgently clarify this strategy…. In particular:...
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:
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:
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:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2009
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Harm reduction measures aimed at preventing HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in prisons are neither new nor groundbreaking in Canada. Prison systems have implemented, to varying degrees, forms of harm reduction such as condoms, bleach and methadone...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2009
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This paper has two main objectives. The first objective is to provide a general overview of Thailand’s Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act, B.E. 2545 (2002) (“the Act”) and the system of diversion into compulsory drug treatment that the Act has...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report examines — from an international perspective — why it is important to increase meaningful involvement of people who use illegal drugs in the response to HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), and how this can be done.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report looks at current HCV-related policy and programs in Canada and outlines steps that should be taken to prevent a potential explosion of HCV.
