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Getting the Regime Right – Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology regarding Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime
Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime is not delivering on the country’s pledge to help developing countries get affordable medicines. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network recommends a number of changes that will help fix the current, flawed Regime. Our central recommendation would replace the existing process for obtaining a compulsory licence with something considerably more streamlined … Read more
HIV/AIDS and HCV in Prisons – A Select Annotated Bibliography (Second edition)
This document, written by former Legal Network Executive Director Ralf Jürgens and published by Health Canada, aims to: increase knowledge of and access to the literature on issues related to HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in prisons; and increase the capacity of governments, non-governmental organizations,and researchers to respond effectively to the challenges posed by … Read more
Letter to members of Parliament and senators re: Budget 2007 and the new “National Anti-Drug Strategy”
“We write to draw to your attention the important health implications of Budget 2007, specifically the allocations for the federal strategy on illicit drugs and the striking absence of any budgetary support for harm reduction measures.”
Legal Network News 26 – March 2007
FEATURES Stephen Lewis and Legal Network slam UN-funded drug board Glenn Betteridge ends four years at the Legal Network Sex workers hold strategy meeting in Toronto European Court of Human Rights considers Legal Network submission MEDIA Review article and Smith trial result in bump in coverage IN BRIEF Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws gets a failing … Read more
Tories’ addiction plan misses mark – Toronto Star letter to the editor
“The new national anti-drug strategy announced in the federal budget ignores the impressive body of scientific evidence on the value of investing in harm reduction and alternatives to criminal prosecution for non-violent drug offences. The new strategy funds law enforcement, prevention and treatment programs — three of the four so-called “pillars” common in many drug … Read more
Letter to Minister for International Cooperation Josée Verner re: Demonstrating Canada’s commitment to achieving universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010
“[W]e write to encourage you to continue showing Canada’s commitment to address the global HIV/AIDS crisis when you participate in the G8 development and cooperation Ministers meeting on March 27 and 28 in Berlin, Germany. “Prior to the International AIDS Conference in Toronto last summer, GTAG developed a four-point action plan recommending steps CIDA and … Read more
AIDS and public security: the other side of the coin – The Lancet commentary
People who are particularly vulnerable to HIV are in many countries the first to be targeted by counterterrorism and security measures, says Executive Director Joanne Csete in this commentary published in The Lancet on March 3, 2007.