New human rights resources from HIV Legal Network

 

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We’ve come to the end of another fiscal year at the HIV Legal Network, and we have many new resources to share with you. Touching on nearly all of our areas of work, these products represent months of work and collaboration. We are very pleased to be able to share these now and we hope you will find them both informational and useful. Let us know what you think, and please share away!

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HIV criminalization materials for African, Caribbean, and Black communities

Together with HALCO, ACCHO, APAA, and Black CAP, we produced resources on HIV criminalization specifically intended for members of the African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) communities. Beautifully designed, these resources were also translated into French, Arabic, and Swahili to ensure that they are as accessible as possible to diverse ACB communities. These resources are also accompanied by a video highlighting key points.

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Know Your Rights brochures

Our previous series of Know Your Rights brochures have proven to be some of our most popular and requested materials — but now, seven years after they were first produced, some of these brochures needed updating to reflect the most recent developments. To this end, we have embarked on a three-year project to create new brochures that are current. The first two of this new series — on HIV Criminalization and Privacy and Health Records — are now available on our website, with six (!) more to come in 2025 and 2026:

Know Your Rights HIV Criminalization

Know Your Rights Privacy and Health Records

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Towards Access for All: Best and Promising Practices from Low-Barrier, Harm Reduction Shelters in Canada

Women and gender-diverse people who use drugs face a higher prevalence of gender-based violence and yet many violence against women shelters reject participants who use drugs or erect additional barriers that deter them from accessing shelter. Our new report Towards Access for All comes after an extensive review of provincial policies regarding shelter access, available services across the country, and a roundtable discussion with service providers and people with lived or living experience. Read the report and watch the accompanying video.

Read report and watch the video.

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The Right to Care: Hepatitis C Among Priority Populations in Canada

A growing aspect of our work is on the human rights implications of the hepatitis C epidemic, especially among newcomers to Canada, racialized people, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, people who use drugs, and people who are incarcerated. Our new report looks at how health inequities affect “priority populations” when it comes to HCV and maps out the legal and policy changes that are desperately needed to address them and ensure the right to healthcare for all.

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Scaling Up Supervised Consumption Services: What has Changed in Canada?

A follow up to our 2019 report Overdue for a Change, this brief examines the current state of supervised consumption services in Canada, focusing on the progress and setbacks in the past five years. It reviews the recommendations we made to all levels of government at that time and sets out new ones for the current climate.

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Care, Connection, and Access: Legal and Policy Measures to Scale Up Safe Supply at Supervised Consumption Services

Safe supply and supervised consumption services (SCS) are key pillars in harm reduction and efforts to implement prescribed safe supply at SCS are already underway at several sites, with promising results. This report looks at the barriers that remain to scaling up safe supply in SCS and proposes ways for governments and other policymakers to realize a continuum of safe supply options that are accessible and honour the autonomy and human rights of people who use drugs.

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