Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
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 1 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This paper analyses the recent HIV-specific legislation of seven Central and West African countries from the perspective of human rights. These seven laws (the “laws under consideration”) are:the “Law on prevention, care and control of...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
From 19–21 April 2007, in Ottawa, Canada, the North-South Institute and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network jointly organized an international expert meeting to discuss Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime, broader global developments related to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2005
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
With this report, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network seeks to contribute to the informed development of the laws, policies and programs people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada rely upon to provide them with income security when they are unable to meet their income...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Nearly one in three HIV infections outside Africa is among people who inject drugs. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) could and should be playing a key role in stopping this injection-driven HIV epidemic — but it’s not.Instead, the Board...
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...
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: 1996
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Final Report and its appendicesreview the history of the response to HIV/AIDS in prisons, nationally and internationally;present relevant new developments in the area;examine whether there is a legal and/or ethical obligation to provide prisoners with the means...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 1998
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Discussion Paper reviews:definitions of discrimination that are current in Canada and internationally;the nature of stigma, discrimination, and vulnerability in the context of the HIV epidemic;stigma and discrimination that people with HIV/AIDS currently...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2001
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Report contains a re-examination of the issues raised by HIV testing and confidentiality in Canada.The main question addressed is whether new developments warrant a departure from the "general principle governing HIV antibody testing in Canada." In...
