Organization:
UBC/BCCDC
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report provides a brief overview of a study conducted by a research teamaffiliated with the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Centrefor Disease Control and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The aimof the study was to explore why...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
"The concept note prepared by the Secretariat for the UN General Assembly session on drugs and development emphasizes the importance of drug-related crime and corruption as impediments to development and the realization of the Millennium Development Goals....
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
Thirty years into the HIV epidemic, HIV-related stigma and discrimination continue to be pervasive in the lives of people living with HIV. HIV-related stigma and discrimination occur throughout the world – however, they manifest differently and in varying degrees in...
Organization:
AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Stigma, mental health and HIV across the lifespan constitute ACT’s health promotion priorities for the agency’s Strategic Plan (2010-2015). The health promotion priorities are intended to guide and inform the direction and content of ACT’s programs and services during...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2012
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Needs assessment
This resource presents the results of an on-line survey conducted with members of the Canadian AIDS Society from across Canada. Among its contents are the following: key challenges in finding affordable and suitable housing; an overview of housing programs that are...
Organization:
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
In both high-income and low- or middle-income countries, indigenous peoples face some of the heaviest burdens of ill health. In particular, indigenous populations face a higher vulnerability to HIV due to a range of factors including stigmatization, structural racism...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
"…[We] speak to issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and human rights, on behalf of 119 NGOs (21 ECOSOC-accredited) from over 60 countries (see attached list), and more than 300+ participants from 23 countries who endorsed the Joint Statement...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Commonwealth HIV and AIDS Action Group letter re murder of David Kato, gay human rights activist in Uganda
Organization:
The CIHR Social Research Centre in HIV Prevention (SRC)
Publication date: 2011
Format:
Video
Resource Type:
Presentation
Responding to UNAIDS calls for comprehensive prevention in order to arrest and turn back the HIV epidemic, this paper considers the benfits as well as the difficulties of adopting a structural approach to HIV prevention. It considers the importance of moving beyond...
