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Tag Archives: stigma
The Conservative Party of Canada is bad for our health!
The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) continues to use scare tactics and NIMBY-ism (Not In My Back Yard) to campaign against life-saving, evidence-based health services for people who use drugs. Yesterday the party circulated an email and petition to their … Continue reading
Toronto Needs Supervised Consumption Sites! Blue Jays Baseball Banner Drop!
Sunday, May 26th, 2013 – At Sunday’s Toronto Blue Jays vs. Baltimore Orioles baseball game at the Roger’s Sports Centre, AIDS ACTION NOW! (AAN!) led people living with HIV, and their allies in a banner drop action. The AAN! banners … Continue reading
Taking the fight against HIV criminalization to Crown Prosecutors
As the next phase of AAN!’s ongoing Think Twice campaign, today we sent letters to the Ontario Crown Prosecutors who have brought forward HIV non-disclosure prosecutions, and to their bosses. Crown Prosecutors, a.k.a. Crown Attorneys, play a pivotal role in … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Criminalization, Think Twice Campaign
Tagged Action, Criminalization, Ontario, stigma, Think Twice
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More criminalization, further marginalization: Supreme Court’s HIV non-disclosure decisions create viral underclass
This is the second in a series of blog posts about the recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions about the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure. See the first post here, in which we wrote about the perverse, negative impacts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Criminalization
Tagged Access, Criminalization, Health Services, stigma, supreme court
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Sick of the criminalization of HIV? Email Ontario’s AG and tell him
Deja-vu, all over again. We are again asking you to email John Gerretsen, Ontario’s Attorney General. He has gone back on the Ministry’s commitment to develop guidelines to reign in Crown Prosecutors. And we are now seeing PHAs criminally charged … Continue reading
