The HIV Legal Network (www.hivlegalnetwork.ca) promotes the human rights of people living with and vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research and analysis, advocacy and litigation, public education and community mobilization. The Legal Network is Canada’s leading advocacy organization working on the legal and human rights issues raised by HIV/AIDS.
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Treatment or Torture? Applying International Human Rights Standards to Drug Detention Centers
Publication date: 2011Increasingly 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...
HIV Testing of UN Peacekeeping Forces: Legal and Human Rights Issues
Publication date: 2001The UNAIDS Executive Director established the UNAIDS Expert Panel on HIV Testing in UN Peacekeeping Operations to analyze and formulate a comprehensive position on the issue of HIV testing. This Expert Panel convened in New York on 17–18 September 2001.The...
Testing of Persons Believed to be the Source of an Occupational Exposure to HBV, HCV, or HIV — A Backgrounder
Publication date: 2001The report provides information with reference to current policies, procedures, and scientific literature on:the risk of accidental occupational exposure to HBV, HCV, and HIV;post-exposure protocols and treatment;testing technologies and procedures;benefits to the...
HIV Testing and Confidentiality: Issues for the Aboriginal Community (Second Edition)
Publication date: 1999The Discussion Paper examines the issues raised for the Aboriginal community by HIV testing and confidentiality, based on interviews of individuals working in the field of HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal people, and on research conducted by the author.
HIV Testing and Pregnancy: Medical and Legal Parameters of the Policy Debate
Publication date: 1999The object of this report is to analyze the following questions with a view to informing that policy development:Should HIV testing be offered to all pregnant women, or only to those at increased risk of HIV infection?Should HIV testing of pregnant women be voluntary,...
Stories of Community Mobilization
Publication date: 2004This 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...
Proceedings: Global Networking for AIDS, Law and Human Rights
Publication date: 2005Global Networking for AIDS, Law and Human Rights was a one-day satellite held on 12 August 2006 in Toronto, Canada, in conjunction with the XVI International Conference on HIV/AIDS. Invitations to the satellite were extended to leaders from around the world in the...
Rapid HIV Screening at the Point of Care: Legal and Ethical Questions
Publication date: 2000The report:explains rapid HIV testing technologies;describes the status of rapid HIV test kits in Canada;presents an overview of the Canadian regulatory framework applicable to the approval and use of rapid test kits;provides a comprehensive evaluation of the...
Provision of HIV-Related Services to People Who Inject Drugs: A Discussion of Ethical Issues
Publication date: 2002The paper attempts to determine how health-care and service providers confront ethical dilemmas on a practical level; and to provide, based on their responses, a general set of ethical decision-making guidelines.
Programming HIV/AIDS: a human rights approach — A tool for international development and community-based organizations responding to HIV/AIDS (Canadian version)
Publication date: 2004The 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...