Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) received funding to study the barriers to access to cannabis for medicinal purposes for people living with HIV/AIDS. We conducted an extensive consultation of people living with HIV/AIDS from across Canada through focus groups and a...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This executive summary provides an overview of a policy paper1 that outlines the barriers to access to the federal medical cannabis program, to a legal source of cannabis, and to adequate information and services.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of 12 info sheets:HIV/AIDS and HCV in prisons: the factsHigh-risk behaviours behind barsHIV transmission in prisonCondoms and prevention of sexual abuseBleach and other disinfectantsNeedle and syringe programsOpioid substitution treatmentCare and...
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 3 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
The first in a series of nine fact sheets about various aspects of cannabis and HIV/AIDS.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Form or template
There has recently been a movement on the part of the newly elected federal government to consider mandatory sentences and stiff penalties for drug offenders. However, scientific evidence indicates that mandatory minimum sentences only worsen the health-related harms...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of case studies outlining how laws and policies dealing with various aspects of HIV/AIDS can and should be based on human rights laws and principles.Criminalization of sex work(ers): The human rights case for law reformPregnancy and HIV testing...
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 4 contains a prefatory note which...
Organization:
Canadian Hemophilia Society – Société canadienne de l’hémophilie
Publication date: 2006
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Booklet
A guide for serodiscordant couples.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2005
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of 10 info sheets examining the need for reform to Canada’s prostitution laws to protect and promote the health and human rights of sex workers.Decriminalizing sex work(ers): law reform to protect health and human rightsSex workers and HIV/AIDS:...
