Publication Type : Advocacy

Les résultats viendront-ils? Règles de l’OMC et loi canadienne sur les licences obligatoires : le défi persistant d’un accès rehaussé aux traitements – Événement au XVIe Congrès international sur le sida

Lors de cette rencontre, Brigitte Zirger (Santé Canada), le professeur David H. Mwakyusa (ministère de la Santé et du Bien-être social – Tanzanie), Bruce Clark (Apotex), Anil Soni (Clinton Foundation), Rachel Kiddell-Monroe (Médecins Sans Frontières) et Richard Elliott (Réseau juridique) exprimeront leurs points de vue sur la loi canadienne et la décision de 2003 de … Lire plus

Letter to federal Health Minister Tony Clement re: Insite

« As Canada’s national HIV/AIDS organizations and as partners in the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS, we write to ask you to extend the regulatory exemption allowing Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection facility, to continue its life-saving work… »

Allocution en discussion de plénière à la Rencontre onusienne de haut niveau sur le sida 2006

« Nous nous efforçons de savoir quelle forme devrait prendre une réponse effi cace et viable, contre le VIH/sida. L’affirmation suivante peut paraître simpliste, mais je crois qu’il est crucial de signaler que nous n’arriverons pas à trouver de réponse effi cace si nos analyses du VIH/sida sont abstraites, détachées des situations concrètes des personnes … Lire plus

Letter to Toronto Police Chief William Blair re: Report of police destroying crack pipes

« I write to you, on behalf of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, to express our concern with recent public reports of Toronto police officers confiscating and destroying personal possessions, including drug use equipment, from people who use illegal drugs. We refer, in particular, to the story that appeared recently on the front page of The … Lire plus

Letter to the World Health Organization re: rescheduling of buprenorphine

« We have recently learned that the thirty-fourth Expert Committee On Drug Dependence (ECDD), which will meet in Geneva on 28–31 March, has included on its agenda a “final decision” on the rescheduling of buprenorphine, a medication used for pain relief and for the treatment of opiate dependence. We understand that under consideration is whether to … Lire plus

Compendium of Federal and Provincial Corrections Law

The laws and policies cited in this document were accessed on 11 October 2005. However, some laws may not have been up-to-date as of that day, depending on whether the source consulted was updated. The link to each source is included in this document and should be consulted to determine the currency of the information. … Lire plus