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:
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:
Report
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:
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:
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:
Report
The objective of this paper is to begin to identify a variety of short-term legal and rights-based strategies that can mitigate the immediate impact of HIV/AIDS in terms of HIV prevention and improving the lives of women who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.This...
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:
Report
Global Networking for AIDS, Law and Human Rights was a one-day satellite held on 12 August 2006 in Toronto, Canada, in conjunction with the XVI International Conference on HIV/AIDS. Invitations to the satellite were extended to leaders from around the world in the...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2005
Format:
PDF
TABLE OF CONTENTSFEATURESInjection drug use, HIV/AIDS and incarceration: evidence from the Vancouver Injection Drug Users StudyLegal Network report calls for decriminalization of prostitution in CanadaCANADIAN DEVELOPMENTSReport calls for changes to the law to improve...
