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Network News 11 – August 2003

NETWORK NEWS FLASH New, Emerging, and Pressing Issue for 2003 – 2004: HIV and Prostitution Disclosure of HIV status after Cuerrier: issues for people with HIV/AIDS and community-based organizations Workshop on stigma & discrimination to be held 25 – 26 October Legal Network participates in WHO/UNAIDS consultations on vaccine trials The Legal Network offering capacity-building … Read more

HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 8(2) August 2003

FEATURES Human Rights in Vancouver: Do Injection Drug Users Have a Friend in City Hall? Recent Developments in Privacy Legislation CANADIAN NEWS Supervised Injection Sites: Health Canada Approves Vancouver Pilot Sites, but Concerns Remain Health Canada Unveils Plan to Distribute Marijuana for Medical Use Clinical Trial on Medicinal Use of Marijuana Cancelled Ottawa Moves to … Read more

Human Rights in Vancouver: Do Injection Drug Users Have a Friend in City Hall? – HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review 8(2)

In April 2003, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) initiated a crackdown in the city’s Downtown Eastside, an area frequented by drug users and the site of one of the developed world’s worst AIDS epidemics. Human Rights Watch (HRW) visited the city and issued a report documenting first-hand accounts of unnecessary use of force by police … Read more

Network News 10 – July 2003

INSIDE THE NETWORK Team-based structure for Network staff Transitions Registration deadline for this year’s AGM and Skills Building Workshop fast approaching Identifying Allies: Community Physicians & Nurses who treat prisoners with HIV Summer students NETWORK NEWS FLASHES National Vaccine Strategy to be developed Capacity-building in Kenya and Zambia CARICOM national assessments on HIV/AIDS Ralf Jürgens … Read more

Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien re: Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2)

“The House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs’ recent report entitled “HIV/AIDS and the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Sub-Saharan Africa,” recommends that the federal government triple its contribution to the Global Fund. We support this call and recommend that funding not be taken from existing commitments to international development assistance . . . .”