On Friday 17th May, the Secretary General of the OEA, José Miguel Insulza, will meet with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to share the results of the hemispheric review of drug policies.

The review was mandated by Heads of State at 2012 Summit of the Americas. The new study should enrich the already-vibrant hemispheric debate over drug policy alternatives, including the option of legal, regulated markets for cannabis.

Key health organisations are celebrating the ACT Government’s decision to include a Needle and Syringe Exchange Program as part of its broader strategy for management of blood borne viruses (BBVs) in the ACT’s prison

'Governments care more about fighting a losing war on drugs than they do about winning the fight against HIV.'

This advertisement calls on President Obama and Governor Romney to listen to the scientific evidence and public health community and acknowledge the link between AIDS and the war on drugs.

Los días viernes 6 y sábado 7 de julio se organizó un Conversatorio-Taller sobre “Activismo cannábico e implementación de la Línea Verde en Trujillo”

Las organizaciones de América Latina y las que trabajamos en la región, pertenecientes al IDPC, instamos a la comunidad internacional sobre la necesidad de evaluar con nuevos indicadores el impacto las políticas actuales, y debatir alternativas.

This report from Human Rights Watch documents the experiences of people confined to 14 detention centres in Southern Vietnam.

This press statement calls on the Nepalese government and its development partners to review, readjust and redesign cost-effective and high-quality harm reduction interventions.

In 2009, a group of associations opened a mock supervised injection facility (SIF) in Paris. Attracted by what they thought to be an illegal action, many journalists visited the SIF and reported positive opinions from their discussions with health professionals. NGOs then started a political...

A new Eurasian Harm Reducation Network report highlights how drug control constrains access to care and treatment

Human Rights Watch issued a 93-page report, "Skin on the Cable," on January 25, 2010, with reports of widespread beatings, whippings, and electric shock to detainees, including children and individuals with mental disabilities, in seven Cambodian drug detention centers. In response, several...

IAS and IHRA welcome the announcement from the Global Fund that it will extend its funding of HIV prevention programmes in Russia for another two years at a cost of US$24 million. The extension will save thousands of lives in a country where more than 1 million people are living with HIV and...