Publications

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

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

“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.”

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

“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

“[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

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.

Это краткое содержание oтчета «Глух к голосу разума: Межуданродный комитет по контролю над наркотиками и ВИЧ/СПИД». Отчет рассматривает, каким образом Международный комитет по контролю над наркотиками (МККН), который обеспечен финансовой и административной поддержкой ООН, блокируeт эффективные методы предотвращения эпидемии ВИЧ среди потребителей инъекционных наркотиков. В фокусе отчета находятся ошибки в изложении фактов и упущения в … Read more

Настоящая публикация включает краткое описание выбранных судебных дел в трех тематических областях, где отмечено значительное количество судебных процессов, направленных на защиту и обеспечение прав человека в отношении людей, живущих с ВИЧ, а именно: дискриминация в связи с ВИЧ; доступ к лечению в связи с ВИЧ; и профилактика и уход в связи с ВИЧ в тюрьмах. … Read more

En este volumen, por tanto, se resumen sólo a modo de aportación inicial los casos seleccionados de tres áreas temáticas a las que pertenece un gran número de procesos contenciosos que fueron emprendidos con el fin de proteger y fomentar los derechos humanos de las personas que viven con el VIH, a saber: la discriminación … Read more