Harm Reduction International a de sérieuses préoccupations concernant le projet du document final de l'UNGASS

Harm Reduction International a examiné le projet du document final de l'UNGASS et se sent sérieusement préoccupé par la formulation actuelle des questions liées à la réduction des risques/VIH, que nous souhaitons porter à votre attention. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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Harm Reduction International has examined the draft UNGASS outcome document and has serious concerns surrounding the harm reduction/HIV language that we want to bring to your attention.

If adopted in its present form, the current language represents a significant step backwards both from previously agreed commitments and language, within CND (such as resolution 56/6), HIV fora (in particular the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV) and the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 3, targets 3.3 and 3.5).

It is important to protect the gains previously made on our core issues, and ensure they are not undermined as a result of the UNGASS process. This is especially true as the harm reduction sector seeks to establish new targets in HIV prevention among people who use drugs at the upcoming High Level Meeting on HIV, held only a few weeks after the UNGASS.

Specific concerns we want to highlight include:

• The lack of any explicit language supporting harm reduction or acknowledgement of the concept or programmes as a whole
• An absence of language around meaningful participation of civil society organisations (especially drug user-led) in designing and implementing services and advocacy programmes for people who use drugs or people who inject drugs
• Weak language asking to promote, but not implement, the WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS ‘Technical guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users’ – a significant step back from previously agreed commitments both at CND and HIV fora
• A lack of recognition of previously agreed commitments to reduce HIV among people who use drugs and a lack of recognition that these global goals have been missed
• The lack of recognition of the need to scale up HIV treatment, prevention and care in order to end HIV epidemics.
• No mention at all of access to HIV anti-retroviral therapy for people who inject drugs
• In this context, and building upon existing agreed UN language, HRI has drafted the following that we propose be the basis for strengthening the currently weak draft.

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