Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The goal of this report is to encourage and aid prison systems, other sectors of government, non-governmental and community organizations, and prisoners themselves in responding to the challenges of HIV and HCV, particularly with respect to prevention.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Les programmes de seringues (PS) sont une méthode éprouvée et efficiente pour réduire la transmission de virus à transmission hématogène, comme le VIH et le VHC (virus de l’hépatite C), parmi les personnes qui font usage de drogue. Ces programmes...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The goal of widely available and utilized HIV testing services can be pursued in many ways. At the federal level and in some provinces, governments in Canada state their commitment to human rights-based responses to HIV/AIDS. This not only means ensuring access to HIV...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This summary of strategic directions is based on the report by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Prisoners’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN).
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Many Canadian provinces have passed legislation that authorizes testing someone for HIV without his or her consent. This document provides information about occupational exposure to HIV, and the legal and human rights concerns raised by forced HIV testing.
Organization:
2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of 12 info sheets on HIV testing in Canada.Evolution of HIV testing policy and technology in CanadaShifting HIV testing policiesConsent to HIV testingCounsellingAnonymous HIV testingConfidentialityAccess to HIV testingHIV testing and pregnancyRapid...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
FEATURESLegislation contagion: the spread of problematic new HIV laws in Western AfricaDrug treatment courts in Canada: an evidence-based reviewUse of soft law to address HIV/AIDS in Southeast AsiaCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSSupervised injection facility granted another...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
A series of six info sheets on legal and ethical issues related to drug use and HIV/AIDS in Thailand.HIV and HCV in Thailand: implications for national drug policyHarm reduction: lessons from the regionSterile syringe programsOpioid substitution treatmentOutreach and...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
This briefing paper critiques the report of the House of Commons Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws in detail. It also summarizes the Legal Network’s analysis of the criminal law’s impact on sex workers and calls on federal politicians to show real...
