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Vancouver nurse and Pivot Legal Society receive Canadian human rights awards: Fight human rights abuses that drive AIDS epidemic

Publication type: 
Media Release
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Agency: 
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Date: 
2004-09-10
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Summary: 
Press release about 2004 Canadian recipients of the Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. It describes recipient Megan Oleson, a nurse who works in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and organized the opening of North America's first safe injection site in 2003. Pivot Legal Society, a non-profit organization that addresses legal and human rights challenges faced by sex workers, drug users and homeless people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, also received the award.
Keywords: 
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network; Pivot Legal Society; DTES; Downtown Eastside; Vancouver; drug users; safe injection site; human rights; law; sex workers; supervised injection site; HIV/AIDS; Hepatitis C; HCV; Hep C; harm reduction; risk reduction; advocacy groups; IDUs; Megan Oleson; nurses; street nurses; Insite

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