The Legal Network at AIDS 2010

From July 18 to 23, 2010, Vienna hosts the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010). Here are highlights of our activities (all times Central European Summer Time [CEST] — UTC/GMT +2 hours):

• Sunday, July 18 to Friday, July 23
• Sunday, July 18
• Monday, July 19
• Tuesday, July 20
• Wednesday, July 21
• Thursday, July 22

Sunday, July 18 to Friday, July 23

Human Rights Networking Zone
Host organizations: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Open Society Institute, with support from the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Levi Strauss Foundation

• Program of events

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Sunday, July 18

12:30 to 15:00
Satellite meeting: “Criminalisation of HIV Exposure and Transmission: Global Extent, Impact and The Way Forward”
Hosts: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; NAM; Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)

Co-chairs:

• Michaela Clayton (AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa)
• Richard Elliott (Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network)

Speakers:

• Moono Nyambe (GNP+)
• Susan Timberlake (UNAIDS)
• Johanna Kehler (AIDS Legal Network in South Africa/ATHENA Network)
• Glenn Betteridge (Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure)
• Lisa Power  (Terrence Higgins Trust)
• Edwin J. Bernard (NAM and Criminal HIV Transmission blog)
  
  

Videos also available at www.vimeo.com/album/264885

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Monday, July 19

11:00 to 12:30
Oral Abstract Session: “Using the Law for Change”
Location: Session Room 4

• Co-chairs: Richard Elliott, Christine Stegling

13:00 to 14:00
Oral Poster Discussion: “Access to Generics: TRIPS Flexibilities and Beyond”
Location: Mini Room 9

• One-licence solution for a one-hit wonder: Civil society´s campaign to reform Canada´s Access to Medicines Regime and create a positive global model of using TRIPS flexibliity of compulsory licensing to export lower-cost, generic pharmaceuticals

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Tuesday, July 20

11:00 to 12:00
Press Conference: “International Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights”
Hosts: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Human Rights Watch
Location: Press Conference Room 2
Speakers:

• Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Joe Amon, Director, Health and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch
• Award Recipient: Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS)

12:30 to 14:30
Poster Exhibition
Location: Poster Exhibition Area

• AIDSLEX: sharing knowledge on HIV, the law and human rights

16:30 to 18:00
Oral Abstract Session: “Managing the Hydra: Dimensions of Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines”
Location: Session Room 4

• Co-chairs: Richard Elliott, Marine Buissonniere

19:00 to 22:30
March and Rally for Human Rights
“Human Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More Than Ever“

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Wednesday, July 21

12:30 to 14:30
Poster Exhibition
Location: Poster Exhibition Area

• Drug treatment courts in action: effectiveness, shortcomings and alternatives

15:00 to 16:00
Press Conference: “Canada’s developing world conditions create lack of access to treatment, morbidity and mortality”
Hosts: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Canadian Treatment Action Council (CTAC); Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
Location: Press Conference Room 1
Speakers:

• Louise Binder, CTAC
• Sandra Ka Hon Chu, the Legal Network
• Art Zoccole, CAAN

18:00 to 19:00
Panel Discussion and Skills-Building Workshop: “Women, HIV, and Human Rights: Addressing Property and Inheritance”
Hosts: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Huairou Commission; Open Society Institute; United Nations Development Programme
Location: Human Rights Networking Zone, Global Village, Hall A

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Thursday, July 22

12:00 to 13:00
Press Conference: “Criminalisation of HIV Exposure and Transmission: Global Extent, Impact and the Way Forward — launch of three international advocacy and information resources”
Hosts: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; AIDES; Groupe Sida Genève; Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+); NAM
Location: Press Conference Room 1
Speakers:

• Susan Timberlake, Senior Human Rights and Law Adviser, UNAIDS
• Cecile Kazatchkine, Policy Analyst, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Chris Mallouris, Director of Programmes, GNP+
• Edwin J. Bernard, Editor, HIV and the Criminal Law, NAM

13:00 to 14:00
Oral Poster Discussion: “Getting it Wright! Documenting Wrongs”
Location: Mini Room 2

• "Under the Skin": a people's case for prison needle and syringe programs

12:30 to 14:30
Poster Exhibition
Location: Poster Exhibition Area

• Criminalizing HIV transmission and exposure in the context of West and Central French-Speaking Africa
  
  
• Drug ‘use’ as a disability: are you protected under Canadian jurisprudence against discrimination?
  
  
• Empowering lawyers to confront the use of criminal law for HIV transmission and/or exposure
  
  
• HIV, disability and discrimination: making the links in international law, including the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  
  
• Respect, protect and fulfill: legislating for women's rights in the context of HIV
  
  
• Women's rights in Malawi: litigating for change

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