Prison Needle Exchange: Lessons from a Comprehensive Review ...
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245 Ibid at 14.<br />
246 This analysis is adapted and expanded <strong>from</strong> that found in Stöver & Nelles, supra, note 150 at 14.<br />
247 <strong>Prison</strong>ers’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN). HIV/AIDS in <strong>Prison</strong> Systems: A <strong>Comprehensive</strong> Strategy.Toronto: PASAN,<br />
June 1992.<br />
248 CSC, Final Report, supra, note 18.<br />
249 Jürgens, supra, note 47.<br />
250 Task Force on HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Use. HIV, AIDS, and Injection Drug Use: A National Action Plan. Ottawa: Canadian<br />
Centre on Substance Abuse and Canadian Public Health Association, 1997.<br />
251 A Scott, R Lines. HIV/AIDS in the Male-to-Female Transsexual/Transgendered <strong>Prison</strong> Population: A <strong>Comprehensive</strong> Strategy.Toronto:<br />
<strong>Prison</strong>ers’ HIV/AIDS Support Action Network, 1998.<br />
252 Study Group on <strong>Needle</strong> <strong>Exchange</strong> Programs. Final Report of the Study Group on <strong>Needle</strong> <strong>Exchange</strong> Programs. Ottawa: Correctional<br />
Service of Canada, October 1999. Copy on file.<br />
253 Lines, supra, note 18.<br />
254 DiCenso et al, supra, note 69.<br />
255 Canadian Human Rights Commission. Protecting Their Rights:A Systemic <strong>Review</strong> of Human Rights in Correctional Services for<br />
Federally Sentenced Women. Ottawa: Canadian Human Rights Commission, December 2003.<br />
256 Special Committee on Non-Medical Use of Drugs. Policy for the New Millennium:Working Together to Redefine Canada’s Drug<br />
Strategy. Ottawa: House of Commons, 2002. Recommendation 32 of the report reads:“The Committee recommends that<br />
Correctional Service Canada allow incarcerated offenders access to harm-reducing interventions, in order to reduce the incidence<br />
of blood-borne diseases, in a manner consistent with the security requirements within institutions.” In Supplementary Reports, the<br />
Canadian Alliance soundly rejected the idea of prison needle exchange as “preposterous” (at 171); the Bloc Québecois did not<br />
comment on the issue; and the NDP “would place greater emphasis on adopting harm reducing measures, such as needle<br />
exchanges and widespread access to treatment, as a more practical solution [to deal with the reality of drugs in our prisons]” (at<br />
181).<br />
257 House of Commons, Standing Committee on Health. Strengthening the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS. Ottawa: House of<br />
Commons, 2003 (available at www.parl.gc.ca/InfoComDoc/37/2/HEAL/Studies/Reports/healrp03-e.htm).<br />
258 CSC, Final Report, supra, note 18 at 78-79.<br />
259 Final Report of the Study Group, supra, note 252, at 1-2.<br />
260 Ibid.<br />
261 Standing Committee on Health, supra, note 257, recommendation 4(d).<br />
262 Special Committee on Non-Medical Use of Drugs, supra, note 256 at 106.<br />
263 Government response to the Third Report of the Standing Committee on Health, Strengthening the Canadian Strategy on<br />
HIV/AIDS.Available at www.parl.gc.ca/InfoCom/PubDocument.asp?FileID=65688&Language=E.<br />
264 Lines, supra, note 18.<br />
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among injection drug users. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2001; 28(5): 487-494.<br />
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267 CB McCoy, JE Rivers, HV McCoy et al. Compliance to bleach disinfection protocols among injecting drug users in Miami. Journal<br />
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268 See RG Carlson, J Wang, HA Siegal, RS Falck.A preliminary evaluation of a modified needle-cleaning intervention using bleach<br />
among injection drug users. AIDS Education and Prevention 1998; 10(6): 523-532; McCoy et al, supra, note 267;AA Gleghorn, MC<br />
Doherty, D Vlahov, DD Celentano,TS Jones. Inadequate bleach contact times during syringe cleaning among injection drug users.<br />
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 1994; 7(7): 767-772.<br />
269 KA Dolan,AD Wodak,WD Hall.A bleach program for inmates in NSW: an HIV prevention strategy. Australian and New Zealand<br />
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