Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2004
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
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....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2002
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The paper demonstrates that promoting the well-being of both drug users and communities requires changes to drug laws and policies, including the introduction of safe injection facilities.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 1999
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Seven priority issues have been analyzed:What is the impact of the current legal status of drugs and drug use on efforts to prevent HIV infection among injection drug users and on the provision of care, treatment, and support to drug users with HIV/AIDS? What are...
