The West African Commission concluded that is time to face the fact that narcotic drugs are increasingly being consumed in West Africa, which no longer simply serves as a transit point.

A harm reduction approach should include friendly and objective information regarding different substances that are usually consumed via methods other than injecting.

To reduce HIV transmission among children and young people who use drugs, one of the most apparent discriminatory policy failures is the strict legal age restriction to harm reduction.

Rumah Cemara, with the support of Youth Rise, has successfully involved 50 young people who use drugs in a community- based programme that provides peer services for people affected by drug use and HIV in Bandung, Indonesia.

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of drug policies on young people who use drugs through questionnaires, and to make recommendations for the improvement of drug policy for young people.

The number of injecting drug users is growing every year in Romania, while harm reductions measures are lagging behind to meet the demand.

The Youth RISE project coordinator for Nigeria and West Africa has recently joined the West Africa Commission on Drugs.

Youth RISE is a youth-led network promoting evidence based drug policies and harm reduction strategies with the meaningful involvement of young people who use drugs and are affected by drug policies.

The course will enhance participants' overall knowledge of drug policy and the different policy options that exist, regional case studies and current trends in policy reform.

Youth RISE is a global, youth-led network advocating for harm reduction and drug policy reform, and represents the rights and needs of young people who use drugs. They are currently recruiting our International Working Group (IWG) for 2013.

In Eurasia, where the primary mode of HIV transmission is injection drug use, new HIV infections among young women are increasing steadily and faster than among young men.

Youth RISE co-faciliated a UNESCO internal workshop on young key affected populations, training staff on young people who use drugs, harm reduction and drug policy reform.

The role of Youth RISE Nigeria will be to engage in advocacy with policy makers and key stakeholders, to support and engage in capacity building activities and undertake research in the region.

This new resource seeks to address drug-related harms related to nightlife settings among recreational drug users.

Membership is open to all young people under 30 interested in drug policy, harm reduction, HIV, sexual health, human rights and drug user rights.

Read up from both projects implemented in Slovakia and Mauritius.

The Rumah Cemara Youth Program is initiated to address some of these issues, and will provide information and support to young people who use drugs in a non-judgemental environment with high participation of the young people in the program.

Youth RISE had a busy few weeks in Nigeria in September engaging with government agencies, local civil society organisations and the drug user community to continue and strengthen our work in the region.

Youth RISE's will be launching the second stage of the Campaign “Support. Don’t Punish: Protect our Youth”

Youth RISE has begun a peer education programme in Mauritius as part of our RISE UP! project, partnering with SAFIRE, an organisation based in Mauritius working with street children.