Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
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PDF
We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations representing affected communities and working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, in Canada and around the world, address you in advance of the Millennium Development Goal 6 International Forum...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
"We urge the Russian government to abolish the criminal ban on methadone, to support rather than repress harm reduction programs and workers, and to reform its drug laws so as to place health concerns, not further pointless and harsh criminalization and...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Ukrainian Ministry of Health Resolution No. 634 dated 29 July 2010 brought into force amendments that significantly reduce the legal threshold for “small,” “large” and “extra large” quantities of certain types of illegal drugs,...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2011
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Human rights violations committed in the name of drug control are common in Thailand, including the unlawful application of the death penalty and the denial of the highest attainable standard of health and numerous concerns with respect to compulsory treatment....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2009
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Harm reduction measures aimed at preventing HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in prisons are neither new nor groundbreaking in Canada. Prison systems have implemented, to varying degrees, forms of harm reduction such as condoms, bleach and methadone...
Organization:
Canadian AIDS Society
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Produced with the aim "to document and disseminate information on innovative and useful ways that harm reduction programs and practices are being offered in some of Canada's small to mid-sized cities, and some of the more effective ways that challenges to...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
This report looks at current HCV-related policy and programs in Canada and outlines steps that should be taken to prevent a potential explosion of HCV.
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2008
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Fact sheet
This is a series of 13 info sheets on HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in prisons.HIV and hepatitis C in prisons: the factsHigh-risk behaviours in prisonsHIV and hepatitis C transmission in prisonPrevention: condomsPrevention: bleachPrevention: needle and syringe...
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
Needle and syringe programs (NSPs) are a proven, cost-effective way of reducing the transmission of bloodborne viruses such as HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) among people who use drugs. They do not result in increased crime in neighbourhoods nor do they lead to drug use....
Organization:
HIV Legal Network
Publication date: 2007
Format:
PDF
Resource Type:
Report
The goal of this report is to encourage and aid prison systems, other sectors of government, non-governmental and community organizations, and prisoners themselves in responding to the challenges of HIV and HCV, particularly with respect to prevention.
