Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In February 2016, the National UNGASS Working Group (supported by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network) delivered a brief to Canada’s federal government, outlining 10 priority recommendations to inform the ongoing negotiations at the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) in April 2016 is a significant opportunity for Canada, in collaboration with other Member States, specialized UN agencies and civil society organizations, to: engage in an open and honest...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
This Discussion Guide was created for people who want to use the film Consent: HIV non-disclosure and sexual assault law to engage colleagues, clients, students and communities on the use of sexual assault law to criminalize HIV non-disclosure in Canada. It is meant...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
A two-page document briefly describing the current legal landscape of the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in Canada, why the current use of the criminal law is problematic, and what the Legal Network and its partners have been doing to resist the overly broad...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
The purpose of this factsheet is to shed light on community mobilization as a way to effectively raise awareness, improve prevention, reduce stigma and address HIV and AIDS amongst African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities in...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In April 2014, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network hosted a ground-breaking workshop, Rethinking HIV Non-Disclosure and Sexual Assault: A Feminist Dialogue. Approximately 30 socio-legal scholars, criminologists, lawyers, anti-violence advocates, researchers, graduate...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“In the past year, the federal government has taken some important steps in promoting the health and human rights of people living with and affected by HIV. […] But so much more is needed.” Read our letter to Canada’s Members of Parliament and Senators ahead of World...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Black, African and Caribbean Network (CHABAC) and its partners are pleased to announce the second annual African, Caribbean and Black Canadian HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7, 2016. The African, Caribbean and Black Canadian HIV/AIDS...
Organization:
Youth Services Bureau Downtown Services and Drop-In
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Brochure
This guide was created by the Hep C Youth Engagement Team at the Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa. This guide will give you tools and information to be safer if you decide to do self-piercing, and help reduce the risks of trasmitting HIV and Hep C.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
The so-called Respect for Communities Act was passed in 2015 in the last Parliament, with the clear goal of impeding the expansion of supervised consumption services (SCS). The Act is an affront to the extensive scientific evidence of the need for such health services...
