In this article, Joanne Csete and Meena Saraswathi Seshu discuss the nature of human rights abuses faced by women in prostitution and describe impediments to reducing those abuses. The authors suggest measures that would help to advance the human rights of women in prostitution and to create an environment conducive to the realization of their … Read more
Canada is facing a public health crisis with respect to injection drug use. Rates of blood borne infections among people who inject drugs increased during the 1990s at an alarming rate. By 1996, almost half of all new HIV diagnoses were in people who inject drugs. Since 1997, the proportion of new HIV infections annually … Read more
” We write on behalf of the undersigned civil society organizations, many of whom actively participate in the Microbicides Advocacy Group Network (MAG-Net). MAG-Net is a coalition of 30 Canadian AIDS service organizations, sexual and reproductive health organizations, international development NGOs and researchers interested in promoting the development of alternative HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection … Read more
While it is impossible to provide a detailed overview of all the prison-related developments presented at AIDS 2004, this article will first provide some background information on HIV/AIDS in prisons worldwide, and then highlight some of the relevant findings presented at the conference.
“Perhaps more than any other G7 leader, you are aware of the importance of debt cancellation for impoverished countries, and the failures of past strategies to address the debt issue. Despite important gains secured by current debt relief strategies, poor countries still spend more on debt service than on health and education. Countries in Africa … Read more