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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Aboriginal People and HIV/AIDS: Legal Issues
Publication date: 2005This is a series of nine info sheets:IssuesDiscriminationHuman Rights LawDealing with DiscriminationJurisdictional BarriersHealth CareConfidentialityHIV TestingAccess to HIV Testing
“Viral Time Bomb”: Health and Human Rights Challenges in Addressing Hepatitis C in Canada
Publication date: 2008This report looks at current HCV-related policy and programs in Canada and outlines steps that should be taken to prevent a potential explosion of HCV.
Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper re: Demonstrating Canada’s commitment to achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010
Publication date: 2008"As international development, humanitarian, AIDS service, trade union, faith-based and human rights organizations, joined together under the aegis of the Global Treatment Access Group (GTAG), we encourage you to show Canada's commitment to address the global...
Bill C-398 to fix Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR): How does this new bill differ from previous Bill C-393?
Publication date: 2012This document explains the differences between Bill C-398 and previous Bill C-393
Fixing Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR): 20 Questions & Answers
Publication date: 2012In this document:Questions 1 to 4 give a quick overview of CAMR and why it needs to be fixed.Questions 5 to 11 provide more in-depth, background information.Questions 12 to 14 explain the solution for fixing CAMR.Questions 15 to 20 respond to some of the main...
Civil society letter to members of the World Trade Organization re: a further extension of the transition period for Least Developed Countries under article 66.1 of the TRIPS agreement
Publication date: 2013"As civil society organisations concerned with access to medicines, to educational resources, to environmentally sound technologies, and to other public goods and cultural creations and further concerned with farmers’ rights, food security, human...
Don’t Trade Away Health: Brief to Canada’s Minister of International Trade Regarding the Trans‐Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Access to Medicines
Publication date: 2013Billions of people around the world lack access to life‐saving medicines. While this is because of a number of synergistic causes, one critical factor is the prohibitively high cost of patent‐monopolized medications. Provisions currently being negotiated for the...
Letter to Canadian Minister of International Trade re: Trans‐Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement and safeguarding access to medicines
Publication date: 2013"We, the undersigned civil society organizations, write to you in order to express our deep concern with some of the provisions proposed for the intellectual property, pharmaceutical pricing and investment chapters of the Trans‐Pacific Partnership...
Open letter to Prime Minister from NGOs: Canada must stand fast in Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations to defend access to affordable medicines
Publication date: 2013"We are Canadian civil society organizations committed to the basic principle that access to medicines and to health care should be equitable, based on need and not on ability to pay, whether at home or around the world. Medicines should not be a luxury. We call...
Privacy and disclosure: questions and answers on HIV-related privacy and disclosure issues for women’s service providers
Publication date: 2012This document addresses some common HIV-related legal questions of agencies that provide services to women in Canada. The information will help service providers inform and refer the women with whom they work to appropriate legal information and support when...