Una rete globale per promuovere obiettivi e dibattiti sulle politiche riguardanti la droga
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The main objective of the report is to inform the harm reduction strategy for Clondalkin, Ireland, to inform strategies to preventing blood borne virus transmission among the people who use drugs.
Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine under supervision without fear of prosecution.
In February 2013, Rumah Cemara organised a capacity building training for 10 officers from Banceuy narcotics prison in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, to improve their knowledge on HIV, TB, drug dependence, etc.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has launched a new funding model that allows it to invest more strategically. Up to $1.9 billion may be available for the new funding model's transition period, in 2013 and 2014.
Examining the evolution of Irish drug policy, the report explores the country’s national strategies; the legal context within which they operate; the public funds spent, or committed, to implement them; and the political bodies and mechanisms set up to coordinate the response to the problem.
The ICASA conference remains one of the most important events in the calendar of the year, contributing towards overcoming the HIV and TB epidemics that grip this region. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most affected region with over 22 Million people living with HIV and AIDS and the highest Tuberculosis rates world-wide.
Abstracts are invited for contributions to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy on drug use in post-Soviet Central Asia.
This is an advocacy tool, as an important part of the strategy in implementing harm reduction networking activities in order to raise the issue of drug use especially former prisoners.
This article concludes that methadone maintenance treatment is evidenced as a successful harm reduction initiative to prevent blood-borne viruses and other injecting related harms.
To reduce the transmission of hepatitis C it is crucial that Directors of Public Health are aware of the importance of screening programmes and education.
This paper concludes that the Thai government has yet to develop a coherent policy based on harm reduction, to reduce such dangerously high prevalence of blood borne pathogens.