{"id":15356,"date":"2017-01-17T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=15356"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:09:12","slug":"government-walks-away-from-talks-on-critical-harm-reduction-measure-in-canadian-prisons","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/government-walks-away-from-talks-on-critical-harm-reduction-measure-in-canadian-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Government walks away from talks on critical harm reduction measure in Canadian prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<b><span lang=\"EN-US\">TORONTO, January 17, 2017<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2014 In a profoundly disappointing move by a government that claims to support harm reduction and \u201cevidence-based policies,\u201d the Government of Canada has withdrawn from a planned mediation, preferring to waste more money on lawyers to fight evidence-based harm reduction services in prisons. Meanwhile, prisoners will continue to needlessly contract preventable infections, at serious cost to both Canadian public health efforts and the public purse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"GOVERNMENT WALKS AWAY FROM TALKS ON CRITICAL HARM REDUCTION MEASURE IN CANADIAN PRISONS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/15358\/?tmstv=1776228703\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, January 17, 2017 \u2014 In a profoundly disappointing move by a government that claims to support harm reduction and \u201cevidence-based policies,\u201d the Government of Canada has withdrawn from a planned mediation, preferring to waste more money on lawyers to fight evidence-based harm reduction services in prisons. Meanwhile, prisoners will continue to needlessly contract preventable &#8230; <a title=\"Government walks away from talks on critical harm reduction measure in Canadian prisons\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/government-walks-away-from-talks-on-critical-harm-reduction-measure-in-canadian-prisons\/\" aria-label=\"More on Government walks away from talks on critical harm reduction measure in Canadian prisons\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[155],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-15356","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-prisons","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21616,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/15356\/revisions\/21616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=15356"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=15356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}