This document assesses some of the measures taken recently to improve access to more affordable ARV therapy in developing countries. It provides a synopsis of the key WTO rules and developments, and of the Canadian law, the concrete benefits of which have yet to be realized.
Until now, India, Brazil and Thailand have been among the biggest generic ARV producers, both for their own people and for export. This production has been crucial for the supply of affordable treatment in the developing world. It has resulted in competition between producers, which has reduced the price of many ARVs from as much … Read more
“On July 1, 2006 the Departments of Industry and Health published, in Part I of the Canada Gazette, the proposed text of an order to amend Schedule 1 to the Patent Act to add “oseltamivir phosphate”, in both capsule form as well as in powder for oral suspension, to the list of patented pharmaceutical products … Read more
“As Canada’s national HIV/AIDS organizations and as partners in the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS, we write to ask you to extend the regulatory exemption allowing Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection facility, to continue its life-saving work…”
Joint written statement submitted by: Action Canada for Population and Development, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Global Rights, International Service for Human Rights, International Women\’s Health Coalition, and Women for Women’s Human Rights (New Ways), non-governmental organizations in special consultative status.
There are increasing calls by public health authorities and policy-makers to modify or abandon the well-established model of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV in favour of models that do not necessarily preserve the elements of informed consent, pre- and post-test counselling and confi dentiality of test results. This report summarizes the conclusions of … Read more
In this issue: Legal Network challenges federal crime bill Federal AIDS funding: more administration, less action? 15th Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research Legal Network represented at high-level UN meeting Legal Network contributes to CARICOM meeting on HIV and human rights Canadian Coalition of People Who Use Drugs Legal Network discusses sex worker rights with … Read more
“We struggle to know the shape of an effective and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS. It is perhaps simpleminded, but still, I think, crucial to suggest that we cannot succeed in fi nding an effective response if our analyses of HIV/AIDS are separate or abstract from the real-life situations of those who stand most directly in … Read more
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 associated with incarceration by increasing the transmission of infectious disease in prisons.