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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
There are many links between HIV and (other) disabilities. As a result, there are growing calls for partnership between HIV activists and disability activists in responding to human rights concerns, including discrimination.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This document, written by former Legal Network Executive Director Ralf Jürgens and published by Health Canada, aims to:increase knowledge of and access to the literature on issues related to HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in prisons; andincrease the capacity of...
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: 1998
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
reviews how, historically, gay men and lesbians have suffered persistent patterns of discrimination and persecution, and how the advent of HIV and AIDS has intensified and extended discrimination against them;provides a detailed analysis of how, in 1998, Canadian law...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 1999
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Discussion Paper examines issues raised for the Aboriginal community by HIV/AIDS-related discrimination, based on interviews with individuals working in the field of HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal people, and on research conducted by the author.
