Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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Commonwealth HIV and AIDS Action Group letter re murder of David Kato, gay human rights activist in Uganda
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
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Fact sheet
Please note that the sections of this document that describe the current state of the criminal law as it relates to HIV non-disclosure do not take into account the recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions in R. v. Mabior and R. v. D.C. We are presently working to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
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PDF
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Form or template
In February 2010, a varied group of legal experts on intellectual property law and access to medicines from North America, Africa and Europe were brought together at the UNDP headquarters in New York City to discuss inter alia whether the reforms proposed to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
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PDF
FEATURERedoubling global efforts to support HIV/AIDS and human rightsCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSHIV prevalence in prison is 15 times greater than in the community as a wholeNew study puts forth HIV treatment as preventionKeeping a common bawdy house becomes a “serious...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
FEATURESCriminalizing HIV transmission or exposure: the context of francophone West and Central AfricaMSM law in francophone Africa and the fight against AIDS: the hypocrisy of certain countriesCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSBritish Columbia project seeks to improve access to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
Increasingly, human rights monitors, mechanisms and NGOs have begun to focus on drug policies and their impact on human rights protections, but this rarely happens in a connected or thematic way. These briefing papers are intended to provide a basic overview of some...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
What do people in prison have to say about the Canadian government’s unwillingness to permit the distribution of clean needles in prison?Between 2008 and 2009, interviews were conducted in person and over the phone in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba,...
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...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2010
Format:
PDF
How the property of couples is administered, owned and distributed at the end of a marriage has considerable relevance in the context of HIV/AIDS, especially in Malawi where women represent almost 60 percent of those over the age of 15 who are infected. Women and Law...
