The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network, CATIE, the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network and Steven Simons, a former federal prisoner, launched a lawsuit against the Government of Canada over its failure to protect the health of people in prison through its ongoing refusal to implement clean needle and syringe programs to … Read more
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network welcomed the introduction of Bill C-398, An Act to amend the Patent Act (drugs for international humanitarian purposes), a critical humanitarian bill to reform Canada’s flawed Access to Medicines Regime. After nearly eight years of waiting for Canada to deliver on its pledge to help get more affordable medicines to … Read more
More than 100 organizations from Canada and around the world have signed on to a statement by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network opposing the criminalization of people living with HIV in Canada. The network said that more than 225 individuals from the fields of medicine, public health, law and academia also expressed their support of … Read more
Canadian civil society organizations working for global public health and human rights welcome the statement from International Cooperation Minister Beverly J. Oda (Durham, ON) reaffirming Canada’s support of and commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and to disbursing Canada’s annual commitment to the Global Fund by the end of December … Read more
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network would like to draw attention to some of the most pressing issues for people living with or vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. Focusing on HIV and human rights in Canada the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network focuses on five key issues for World AIDS Day 2011. The five key issues include access to … Read more
In Moscow, the Russian Government has organized the International Forum “Millennium Development Goal 6 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia." Representatives from the scientific community, civil society and government will participate in the Forum from October 10 to 12, 2011. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network however, is warning that the Russian drug policy can lead … Read more
The member organizations of an international coalition of harm reduction experts, applaud the landmark decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to uphold the human rights of all Canadians by allowing Insite, Vancouver’s life-saving supervised injection site, to remain open. In light of the decision, the international coalition called for jurisdictions Canada-wide to act fearlessly … Read more
The Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care released two reports finding that people identified as drug users in many countries are confined to abusive locked detention centers for months. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network said such detention centers are supposedly mandated to treat and “rehabilitate” drug users, but the “treatment” they receive in some … Read more
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch announced that the will jointly present the 2011 Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. The organizations said the particular International Award will honor the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition's co-founder Dr. Robert Carr. The organization said Dr. Carr's untimely death in early May ended a … Read more
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network announced that a large group of organizations has welcomed the report released by the Global Commission on Drug Policy. The organization said that the report calls on governments to end the criminalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do not harm others and ensure the availability of a … Read more
