Prison Needle Exchange: Lessons from a Comprehensive Review ...
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This report will be sent to a broad range of individuals and organizations working in areas<br />
of prisons, injection drug use, and harm reduction and/or HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C, both in<br />
Canada and internationally. It will also be sent to appropriate government policymakers in<br />
Canada, such as ministers responsible for corrections and justice, and unions and organizations<br />
of health-care workers involved in prison issues.<br />
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is a member of two Canadian prison, HIV, and<br />
hepatitis C groups: the <strong>Prison</strong>s HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Networking Group and the<br />
<strong>Prison</strong> HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis C Research & Advocacy Consortium. We will work with<br />
the other members of these groups to advocate for the implementation of prison needle<br />
exchange programs in federal and provincial/territorial prisons in Canada.<br />
For further information…<br />
Contact Glenn Betteridge at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network through the Network’s<br />
office in Toronto at tel +1 416 595-1666, fax +1 416 595-0094, email: info@aidslaw.ca. Or<br />
contact him directly by email at gbetteridge@aidslaw.ca.<br />
Further copies of this report can be retrieved <strong>from</strong> the website of the Canadian HIV/AIDS<br />
Legal Network via www.aidslaw.ca/Maincontent/issues/prisons.htm, or ordered through the<br />
Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre at tel + 1 613 725-3434 (toll free: + 1 877 999-<br />
7740), fax +1 613 725-1205, email: aidssida@cpha.ca.<br />
xii <strong>Prison</strong> <strong>Needle</strong> <strong>Exchange</strong>: <strong>Lessons</strong> <strong>from</strong> a <strong>Comprehensive</strong> <strong>Review</strong> of International Evidence and Experience