FEATURE HIV treatments, vaccines, and microbicides: toward coordinated advocacy CANADIAN NEWS Québec: An outbreak of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination Alberta: New bill will allow for mandatory HIV testing in emergency situations Media frenzy greets release of Newfoundland man from prison Health Canada makes marijuana available for medical use AIDS in the workplace: a program that’s … Read more
This report presents seven stories of community mobilization. They include: Improving Relations Between the GLBT Community and the Ottawa Police; Fighting to Keep Disability Benefits in Ontario; Addressing Barriers that Put Women in B.C. at Risk; Building a Sense of Connection, Belonging, and Esteem through the International Two-Spirit Gathering Movement; Fighting for a Supervised Injection … Read more
FEATURES TRIPS from Doha to Cancún … to Ottawa: global developments in access to treatment and Canada’s Bill C-56 Warsaw Declaration on HIV/AIDS and injection drug use adopted CANADIAN NEWS North America’s first supervised injection site opens in Vancouver Ontario: People can now apply for forced HIV testing in certain situations Many people in marginalized … Read more
On 14 November 2003, the Warsaw Declaration: A Framework for Effective Action on HIV/ADS and Injection Drug Use, was adopted at the 2nd International Policy Dialogue on HIV/AIDS. Its purpose is to provide a framework for – finally – “mounting an effective response that will slow and eventually stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic among injecting drug … Read more
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
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
In this article, Ruth Carey takes a critical look at recent privacy-of-personal information legislation drafted in three Canadian provinces — Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. Related Publications HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 8(2) August 2003
FEATURES The 1st Annual Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights House of Commons Committee Releases Report on Canada’s Drug Strategy HIV/AIDS in Prisons: Recent Developments CANADIAN NEWS Canada Refuses to Issue a Visa to an HIV-Positive Worker on Antiretroviral Drugs Supervised Injection Sites: Minister of Health Ready to Review Applications for Pilot Research … Read more
On 17 May 2001, the House of Commons created a Special Committee on Non-Medical Use of Drugs based on a motion introduced by Randy White, Canadian Alliance MP (Langley–Abbottsford) and gave it a very broad mandate to study “the factors underlying or relating to the nonmedical use of drugs in Canada” and to propose recommendations … Read more