Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Guideline or manual
This tool kit informs community advocates about pre-exposure prophylaxis, a potential safe and effective form of prevention against HIV that involves administering antiretroviral medications to those at risk of HIV infection. You'll learn what PrEP is, what trials...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2009
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This paper has two main objectives. The first objective is to provide a general overview of Thailand’s Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act, B.E. 2545 (2002) (“the Act”) and the system of diversion into compulsory drug treatment that the Act has...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2009
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Harm 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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report examines — from an international perspective — why it is important to increase meaningful involvement of people who use illegal drugs in the response to HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), and how this can be done.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This 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.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In three parts, this report:presents a critical analysis of the UN systems of drug control and human rights, and their relative relationship within overall UN governance, and outlines the basis for the primacy of human rights;highlights the multiple ways in which the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of 13 info sheets on HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in prisons.HIV and hepatitis C in prisons: the factsHigh-risk behaviours in prisonsHIV and hepatitis C transmission in prisonPrevention: condomsPrevention: bleachPrevention: needle and syringe...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
A number of public health departments and community organizations in Canada distribute safer crack use kits to people who use crack cocaine. The kits typically include mouthpieces, glass stems and screens, as well as condoms and referral information for other health...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This 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 2 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
A wealth of scientific evidence has shown that methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is the most effective intervention available for the treatment of opiate dependence. MMT has been associated with reductions in risk behaviour, illicit drug use, criminal behaviour,...
