Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This briefing paper provides a short summary of the background, history and objectives of drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and analyses available evidence regarding their impact. The second part of the briefing paper consists of an overview of the various DCRs in...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The purpose of this report is to critically examine drug treatment courts (DTCs) in Canada using the available evidence, which includes process and outcome evaluations of existing DTCs, grey literature and academic research. Our assessment is also informed by...
Organization:
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Program evaluation, Report
Describes the distribution of safer crack use kits (SCUKs) and the impact of their distribution in the Winnipeg Health Region.NOTE that more recent monitoring indicators can be found in the 2015 Street Connections evaluation report (accessible through...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
A series of four info sheets on the human rights of women living with or vulnerable to HIV in Canada.
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK. & ROLL – and HIV. Many studies have shown a relationship between drug use and unsafe sexual practices among gay and bisexual men …
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Increasingly 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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Shadow Report to the UN Committee against Torture in relation to the review of the Fifth Periodic Report of the Russian Federation.This report considers facts, reasons for and conditions for mistreatment of drug users in Russia.Authors: Andrey Rylkov Foundation,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
"We write to express our grave concern at reports of the Thai government’s plans to round up and ‘treat’ 30,000 people who use drugs from 20-27 February…. We ask that the Government urgently clarify this strategy…. In particular:...
Organization:
National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID)
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This paper discusses potential biological mechanisms that may be contributing to the observed phenomena of increased susceptibility to and progression of HIV and HCV in solvent users.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report analyses national programmes on HIV and drug control, administrative and criminal laws, and relevant governmental decrees and ministerial orders which were in effect in 2007–2009 in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and...
