Facing up to an epidemic: drug policy in Canada

Canada is facing a public health crisis with respect to injection drug use. Rates of blood borne infections among people who inject drugs increased during the 1990s at an alarming rate. By 1996, almost half of all new HIV diagnoses were in people who inject drugs....

HIV/AIDS and Pharmaceutical Pricing

This info sheet is one in a series of seven info sheets on the federal regulation of pharmaceutical prices in Canada.Health Spending and the Pharmaceutical IndustryControlling Medicine Prices: Evolution of Canadian LawPatented Medicine Prices Review BoardPreventing...

HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(3) December 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESStill underground: searching for progress in realizing the human rights of women in prostitutionSteps forward, backward, and sideways: Canada’s bill on exporting generic pharmaceuticalsEDITORIALHigh time to vastly scale up action on...

Programming HIV/AIDS: a human rights approach — A tool for international development and community-based organizations responding to HIV/AIDS (Canadian version)

The tool was prepared with reference to Government of Canada policies and practices, and the primary audience is program staff in Canada innon-governmental development organizationscommunity based AIDS organizationsthe private sectorwho prepare funding proposals, and...

HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(2) August 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESHuman rights and HIV/AIDS in the context of 3 by 5: time for new directions?Harm-reduction activism: a case study of an unsanctioned user-run safe injection siteCANADIAN NEWSCanada announces new funding for domestic and global fight against...

HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(1) April 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATUREHIV treatments, vaccines, and microbicides: toward coordinated advocacyCANADIAN NEWSQuébec: An outbreak of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discriminationAlberta: New bill will allow for mandatory HIV testing in emergency situationsMedia frenzy...

PWN annual report 2003-2004

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Stories of Community Mobilization

This report presents seven stories of community mobilization. They include:Improving Relations Between the GLBT Community and the Ottawa Police;Fighting to Keep Disability Benefits in Ontario;Addressing Barriers that Put Women in B.C. at Risk;Building a Sense of...