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Network News 17 – September 2004
In this issue: Joanne Csete to take helm: Network appoints new Executive Director Action and Activism at AIDS 2004 Drug Users and Prisoners Have Rights Too! Thai Drug Users’ Network Receives 2004 International Award for Action Treatment, Microbicide and Vaccine Activists Launch Joint Call for Action Inside the Network New Resources Fighting for the right … Read more
Statement to the WHO-UNAIDS Consultation on Gender, Age and Race Factors in HIV Vaccine-related Research and Clinical Trials
“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
Programming HIV/AIDS: a human rights approach – A tool for international development and community-based organizations responding to HIV/AIDS (Canadian version)
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
Human rights and HIV/AIDS in the context of 3 by 5: time for new directions? – HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(2), August 2004
Over the last decade, the success of the human rights–based approach to HIV/AIDS has been spotty, says Mark Heywood. In this feature article, the author describes the challenges that remain in implementing a human rights approach. He presents an analysis of questions raised by De Cock et al concerning the applicability of the human rights … Read more
HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(2) August 2004
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
Harm-reduction activism: a case study of an unsanctioned user-run safe injection site – HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review 9(2), August 2004
Due to the ongoing health crisis among injection drug users in Vancouver, Canada, there have been repeated calls for the establishment of safe injection sites (SISs) since the early 1990s. In April 2003, in response to a large-scale police crackdown and government inaction, a group of activists opened an unsanctioned SIS in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside … Read more
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