Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
This document assesses some of the measures taken recently to improve access to more affordable ARV therapy in developing countries. It provides a synopsis of the key WTO rules and developments, and of the Canadian law, the concrete benefits of which have yet to be...
Organization:
2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
A number of public health departments and community organizations in Canada distribute safer crack use kits to people who use crack cocaine. The kits typically include mouthpieces, glass stems and screens, as well as condoms and referral information for other health...
Organization:
Positive Women’s Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Needs assessment, Report
YouthCO and Positive Women’s Network commissioned a research project in 2007 on the barriers that young women living with HIV face in accessing primary health care services.The PWN resources in Sage can be reproduced and adapted for non-commercial use with...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
A substantial amount of scientific evidence has shown that needle and syringe programs (NSPs) in the community are the most effective intervention available to prevent HIV transmission associated with injecting drug use. As well, NSPs have been associated with...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
FEATURELegislation contagion: building resistanceCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSResults of the first North American prescription heroin study are promisingNew excessive demand policy for immigration applicantsBritish Columbia adopts E-Health Act(Most) political parties...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
A wealth of scientific evidence has shown that methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is the most effective intervention available for the treatment of opiate dependence. MMT has been associated with reductions in risk behaviour, illicit drug use, criminal behaviour,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In three parts, this report:presents a critical analysis of the UN systems of drug control and human rights, and their relative relationship within overall UN governance, and outlines the basis for the primacy of human rights;highlights the multiple ways in which the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
FEATURESDelivery past due: global precedent set under Canada’s Access to Medicines RegimeDeveloping guidance for HIV prosecutions: an example of harm reduction?Access to condoms in U.S. prisonsCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSLegislation imposing mandatory minimum sentences...
Organization:
CATIE
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
CATIE's Strategic Plan 2008-2011
