Publications

This article by Richard Elliott is an abridged version of a paper prepared for “Human Rights at the Margins: HIV/AIDS, Prisoners, Drug Users and the Law,” a satellite meeting held in Bangkok on 9 July 2004, and organized by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit (India). The article briefly outlines … 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

Canada is facing a public health crisis with respect to injection drug use. Rates of blood borne infections among people who inject drugs increased during the 1990s at an alarming rate. By 1996, almost half of all new HIV diagnoses were in people who inject drugs. Since 1997, the proportion of new HIV infections annually … Read more

While it is impossible to provide a detailed overview of all the prison-related developments presented at AIDS 2004, this article will first provide some background information on HIV/AIDS in prisons worldwide, and then highlight some of the relevant findings presented at the conference.

“Perhaps more than any other G7 leader, you are aware of the importance of debt cancellation for impoverished countries, and the failures of past strategies to address the debt issue. Despite important gains secured by current debt relief strategies, poor countries still spend more on debt service than on health and education. Countries in Africa … Read more

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

“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