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.
RESOURCES
Prevention and Protection: Enhancing Both HIV Testing and Human Rights in Canada
Publication date: 2007The 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...
Do Not Cross: Policing and HIV Risk Faced by People Who Use Drugs
Publication date: 2007This paper reviews the research literature of relevance to Canada on the impact of law enforcement practices on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment for people who use illegal drugs. We consider the impact of national and provincial/state laws and municipal bylaws...
Clean Switch: The Case for Prison Needle and Syringe Programs in Canada
Publication date: 2009Harm reduction measures aimed at preventing HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in prisons are neither new nor groundbreaking in Canada. Prison systems have implemented, to varying degrees, forms of harm reduction such as condoms, bleach and methadone...
Prison Needle Exchange: Lessons from a Comprehensive Review of International Evidence and Experience (Second Edition, 2006)
Publication date: 2006This report examines the issue of prison needle exchange based upon the international experience and evidence current to April 2006. The authors undertook a literature review, visited prisons in four countries, and corresponded with people responsible for...
A Plan of Action for Canada to reduce HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination
Publication date: 2004This report presents a plan of action for Canada to prevent, reduce, and eliminate stigma and discrimination in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.The plan of action covers five broad areas:participation of people living with HIV/AIDS and vulnerable to HIVtackling...
Legislating for Health and Human Rights: Model Law on Drug Use and HIV/AIDS — Module 8: Heroin prescription programs
Publication date: 2006This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 8 contains a prefatory note which...
Legislating for Health and Human Rights: Model Law on Drug Use and HIV/AIDS — Module 7: Stigma and discrimination
Publication date: 2006This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 7 contains a prefatory note which...
Legislating for Health and Human Rights: Model Law on Drug Use and HIV/AIDS — Module 6: Outreach and information
Publication date: 2006This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 6 contains a prefatory note which...
Legislating for Health and Human Rights: Model Law on Drug Use and HIV/AIDS — Module 5: Prisons
Publication date: 2006This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 5 contains a prefatory note which...
Legislating for Health and Human Rights: Model Law on Drug Use and HIV/AIDS — Module 4: Supervised drug consumption facilities
Publication date: 2006This model law resource is designed to inform and assist policy-makers and advocates as they approach the task of reforming or making laws to meet the legal challenges posed by the HIV epidemic among people who use drugs.Module 4 contains a prefatory note which...