Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to David Garmaise.
Five men living with HIV/AIDS, who had developed resistance to conventional antiretroviral therapies and who were seriously ill, have finally obtained access to two experimental antiretroviral drugs.
In November 2005, the Liberal government in Ontario introduced a bill that would allow policy officers, other community safety workers and victims of crime to find out more quickly whether they have been exposed to infection from certain viruses. Meanwhile, the Saskatchewan Medical Association (SMA) is opposing similar legislation enacted in that province.
Unions in Ontario and British Columbia representing nurses and other health care workers are lobbying for safer hypodermic needles in hospitals, long-care facilities and other medical settings.
Adrian Lomaga, a McGill law student who is gay, is suing Héma-Québec because it refuses to accept his blood donation. Héma-Québec, which is the blood collection agency for the province, imposes a lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with another man even once since 1977. The Canadian Blood Services has the same policy.
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In May 2005, as a result of pressure from advocates, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) lifted the requirement that short-term visitors to Canada applying for a visa disclose their HIV status on the application form.
After a divisive debate that pitted the Medical Officer of Health against the Chief of Police, Ottawa City Council voted in May 2005 to approve the distribution of crack kits to drug users. Similar programs already exist in Toronto, Montréal, Windsor, Guelph and Vancouver.
The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa Act (the Act), the Canadian legislation aimed at allowing the export of lower-cost medicines to developing countries, came into force on 14 May 2005, exactly one year after it received Royal Assent.
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The City of Toronto should expand its harm reduction outreach strategies to reach marginalized drug users, in particular people who use crack cocaine. This is one of 66 recommendations contained in a report on a proposed Toronto Drug Strategy. The report also calls for increased emphasis on prevention, the decriminalization of cannabis possession, and consideration of a safe injection facility for hard drug users similar to the one already in operation in Vancouver.
The government of Saskatchewan has produced an action plan for substance abuse that increases funding for prevention and treatment programs. The action plan also provides new funding for supply reduction (i.e., enforcement) measures. Workers in community-based organizations (CBOs) in Saskatchewan have been critical of the action plan.
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