FEATURES Canada’s 2003 renewed drug strategy — an evidence-based review Will they deliver treatment access?: WTO rules and Canada’s law on generic medicine exports The CDC’s routine HIV testing recommendation: legally, not so routine CANADIAN DEVELOPMENTS Supervised injection facility granted time-limited extension Federal prison guards call for power to test prisoners for HIV Sex workers: … Read more
In this feature article, Ann Hilton Fisher, Catherine Hanssens and David I. Schulman (from the ABA) analyze the new guidelines on HIV testing from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and find them wanting. The authors argue that the CDC’s recommendation to do away with specific written informed consent for HIV tests … Read more
In this feature article, Kora DeBeck, Evan Wood, Julio Montaner and Thomas Kerr report on a study that examined expenditures and activities related to the Drug Strategy as renewed in 2003. The article reviews the effectiveness of the Strategy in light of current scientific evidence pertaining to the reduction of drug-related harm. The authors find … Read more
More than two years since Canada enacted the Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa, no generic medication produced under compulsory license has yet been exported from Canada. In this feature article, Richard Elliott describes attempts by two Canadian generic pharmaceutical companies to navigate the complicated and unwieldy processes established under the Act, and, noting the government’s … Read more
In this issue: AGM honours Jamaican hero, Stella, offers rights-centred workshops Missing the point: Ottawa cancels pilot prison tattooing program Legal Network calls for reforms to law on generic medicine exports Minster of Health reviewing Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS Commons report on prostitution fails sex workers Nairobi consultation on women’s rights Legal Network testifies before … Read more
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 area of AIDS, law and human rights. The purpose of the satellite … Read more
“[B]y reopening debate on this issue [the Civil Marriage Act] in the House of Commons and possibly backpedaling on the equal right of same-sex couples to marry, Canada is in danger of joining the ranks of countries that champion human rights only selectively to suit political circumstances. The consequences of such an outcome would be … Read more
Safer tattooing programs should be implemented in all prisons in Canada, says Director of Communications Leon Mar in this World AIDS Day op-ed, published in the Toronto Star on December 1, 2006.