Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Booklet
Knowing your rights and responsibilities when it comes to HIV disclosure, privacy and confidentiality is an important way to protect your privacy. This guide provides answers to common questions on disclosure, privacy and confidentiality in the health care settings,...
Organization:
Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Collective Action Community Change is a collective representation of 16 situational analyses that were completed by Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative (WHAI) Coordinators across Ontario.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In consultation with the community, federal and provincial governments must take action to limit HIV criminalization and bring the law in line with international recommendations, science and human rights as outlined in the attached brief.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network submits this briefing to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons withDisabilities in advance of its review of the periodic report of Canada, held during its 17th session from 20 March to 12 April 2017....
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Over the past decade, Nova Scotia has experienced a rise in opioid drug misuse and overdoses. In response to this public health issue, the Deputy Ministers of Health and Wellness and Justice have actioned the formation of a Leadership Committee on Opioid Misuse...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“On behalf of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, I am writing to you because we are deeply concerned about Ontario’s approach to prosecuting allegations of HIV non-disclosure. We request that you immediately undertake the following actions to put an end to unjust...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (“IRPA”) stipulates that foreign nationals are inadmissible to Canada on health grounds if their health condition might reasonably be expected to cause an “excessive demand” on health or social services, or if they have an...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2017
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Since 2009, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network has organized a number of symposia on HIV, Law and Human Rights. The issue of criminalization of HIV non-disclosure has been and remains an ongoing issue of concern to people living with HIV, community organizations,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
“We welcome the HRC acknowledgement that the full realization of human rights is an essential element in the global AIDS response. Today, more than 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, we have the knowledge, tools and the experience to end AIDS; but it will be...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2016
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
This Discussion Guide was created for people who want to use the film Consent: HIV non-disclosure and sexual assault law to engage colleagues, clients, students and communities on the use of sexual assault law to criminalize HIV non-disclosure in Canada. It is meant...
