Publications

This is a series of 12 info sheets: HIV/AIDS vaccines: The basics HIV/AIDS, vaccines and human rights Getting started: Approval of HIV vaccines trials Ensuring community participation in making decisions about HIV vaccine trials Informed consent and voluntary participation in HIV vaccine trials The right to prevention, care and confidentiality for HIV vaccine trials participants … Read more

This document provides an overview of “MTV advocacy” and an introduction to The issues and the plan of action: What concerns and objectives are shared by microbicide, treatment and vaccine advocates? How can we do our advocacy in mutually supportive ways? How are human rights relevant to our collaboration? And what can we do to … Read more

This Statement presents the shared commitments of advocates and activists working in the fields of HIV/AIDS treatments, microbicides and vaccines. These commitments are based on human rights principles, as expressed through international and regional human rights instruments. Our commitments also build on the international promises of governments as stated in the United Nations Declaration of … Read more

This document sets out the key issues described in the Background Paper and a Plan of Action listing advocacy challenges discussed at the consultation. The objective is to introduce, to a wider global audience, the rationale for collaboration between advocates in these three fields and the key current priorities for advocacy. Related Publications Cabildeo Conjunto … Read more

” We write on behalf of the undersigned civil society organizations, many of whom actively participate in the Microbicides Advocacy Group Network (MAG-Net). MAG-Net is a coalition of 30 Canadian AIDS service organizations, sexual and reproductive health organizations, international development NGOs and researchers interested in promoting the development of alternative HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection … Read more

“This presentation will touch on all of these issues as well, but from a different perspective: the perspective of human rights. In particular, we have heard a lot today about bioethics, which focuses on questions about what is right and wrong or more right or less wrong, and is informed by guidelines such as the … Read more

The tool was prepared with reference to Government of Canada policies and practices, and the primary audience is program staff in Canada in non-governmental development organizations community based AIDS organizations the private sector who prepare funding proposals, and manage and evaluate projects or programs, which address HIV/AIDS and related issues in developing countries and countries … Read more

FEATURES Human rights and HIV/AIDS in the context of 3 by 5: time for new directions? Harm-reduction activism: a case study of an unsanctioned user-run safe injection site CANADIAN NEWS Canada announces new funding for domestic and global fight against AIDS Reports call for end to harms caused by Criminal Code prohibitions surrounding prostitution Nova … Read more