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Past recipients
2007 Individual Recipient: Ruth Carey
A lawyer by training, Ruth Carey was executive director of the Toronto-based HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic (Ontario) from 1996 to 2007. Ruth served on the Legal Network’s board of directors from 1998 until her departure from HALCO. She joined AIDS Action Now’s legal issues committee in 1991, and stayed on that committee until it founded HALCO in 1995.
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2007 Institutional Recipient: HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic (Ontario)
HALCO, the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic (Ontario), is a not-for-profit, community-based legal clinic serving low income people with HIV/AIDS in Ontario. Founded in 1995 to deal with the overwhelming legal consequences of HIV/AIDS, HALCO provides free services, including representation and summary advice, to clients whose legal problem falls within its areas of practice, such as human rights, social assistance, income support, and housing. It is also an influential advocate for law reform that will help people living with HIV/AIDS.
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2006 Canadian Recipient: Stella
 Stella (www.chezstella.org) is a community-based organization established and run by and for sex workers in Montréal. Since 1995, it has worked to improve the quality of life and working conditions of sex workers, while promoting their health and respecting their human rights. Stella serves women, transvestites and transsexuals, and maintains an ongoing presence in sex work venues, including streets, escort agencies, massage parlours and strip bars. Stella also runs a phone line, medical and legal clinics and visits to sex workers in prison.
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2006 International Recipient: Gareth Williams
Squarely facing off with one of the most hostile and violent societies towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, activist Gareth Williams is a leading voice for the rights of sexual minorities in Jamaica and the English-speaking Caribbean. At frequent risk to his own physical safety, Mr. Williams is also a tireless advocate for the human rights struggles of those affected by HIV in Jamaica. His commitment to rights as lived realities has ensured that the spectre of discrimination does not go unchallenged.
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2005 Canadian Recipient: Al McNutt
 In a town where speaking of HIV/AIDS was largely taboo, in 1994 McNutt founded Truro AIDS Outreach, which has since evolved into the Northern AIDS Connection Society, where he remains a driving force. He and his colleagues have, without remuneration, travelled throughout the Atlantic region promoting voluntary and confidential HIV testing where it did not exist, educating young people and those, such as prisoners, who are highly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, and fighting stigma and discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.
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2005 International Recipient: Humanitarian Action
 Based in St. Petersburg, Russia, the programs of Humanitarian Action (www.humanitarianaction.org) have served as a model in the country for such programs as syringe exchange for drug users, outreach to street-based sex workers, and medical services for street children.
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2004 Canadian Recipient (Individual): Megan Oleson
 Megan Oleson is a nurse and activist who has been tireless in her fight to protect the health and human rights of some of the most vulnerable residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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2004 Canadian Recipient (Organization): Pivot Legal Society
 Pivot Legal Society (www.pivotlegal.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to using law reform, legal education, and strategic legal action to advance the interests and improve the lives of marginalized people.
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2004 International Recipient: Thai Drug Users' Network
 The Thai Drug Users' Network (TDN) was formed in 2002 by a few drug users who were moved to act by having seen so many of their peers die of AIDS and other drug-related harms. The network has over 100 members and is active in all four regions of Thailand. It courageously advocates for the human rights of drug users.
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2003 Canadian Recipient (posthumous award): Laurence Stocking
 A tireless activist from behind the prison's walls, Laurence Stocking (1959–1998) fought to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS among prisoners and to ensure access to comprehensive HIV/AIDS services within the prison system.
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2003 International Recipient: AIDS Law Project, South Africa
 Established in 1993 by Judge Edwin Cameron, the AIDS Law Project (ALP) has been in the forefront of the struggle against HIV/AIDS in South Africa since its inception. ALP (www.alp.org.za) has set an international standard for action on human rights and HIV/AIDS.
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2002 Canadian Recipient: Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
 With more than 1000 members and 800 peer volunteers, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (www.vandu.org), has become one of the strongest drug users' associations in the world.
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2002 International Recipient: Dr. Wan Yanhai
 Dr. Wan Yanhai, coordinator of the AIZHI (AIDS) Action Project, a Chinese nongovernmental organization he founded in 1994, has been on the front lines of fighting a growing epidemic, which the Chinese government has preferred to ignore.
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