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This research shows that a daily tablet of tenofovir, a drug otherwise used to treat HIV infection, reduced the risk of HIV acquisition among people who inject drugs by 49% in a clinical trial.
This research shows that targeted periodic HIV testing and counselling is cost-effective and could lead to potential elimination of HIV in the region of Can Tho.
This report provides a snapshot of field experiences on voluntary and human rights-based harm reduction programmes in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia.
About 85 % of female inmates are being held for drug-related offences and Thailand, that has the world's highest number of women prisoners - almost 19,000 - after the United States.
International organisations have welcomed Thailand's decision to remove the leg shackles from death row inmates, but say other forms of ill treatment still need to be addressed.
The 10th ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly Fact-Finding Committee will serve to strengthen collaborative efforts amongst the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly members in addressing drug issues.
The objective of this UNODC report is to further the understanding about the mechanics of illicit trade in the East Asia and the Pacific region: the how, where, when, who, and why of selected contraband markets affecting the region.
The study, soon to be published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, assessed changes in the availability of five substances commonly used among people who inject drugs (IDUs) in Bangkok between 2009 and 2011.
This report was carried out to explore the information about health services accessed by former prisoners narcotics by taking samples in seven provincial cities in Indonesia.
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 consultant will be responsible for conducting a regional mapping exercise that covers 8 countries in Asia. The deadline for applications is 19 April 2013.
ANPUD finds a recent attempt to advocate for compulsory “rehabilitation” centres founded on faulty arguments and dubious research that poses a direct threat to the human rights of people who use drugs and the dignity of society at large.
24 years old Margarita Charykova was arrested in December 2012 in Moscow. She is facing up to ten years imprisonment for possession of the pain-killer, which was mixed with a home-made psychotropic stimulant.
UNODC and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will join forces to promote grass-roots development and alternative livelihoods in poor rural communities dependent on the cultivation of illicit drug crops.
In Burma poppy cultivation grew 17% last year, according to UNODC and around 300,000 households in the country are currently engaged in its cultivation, Burma is now feeling increased pressure to tackle its drugs problem.
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 cultivation of drugs is a sign of poverty rather than a sign of wealth. Rather than a “war,” the treatment of the drug problem must be approached as development, security and health issues, the panelists of the workshop “Drugs and Development: Punishing the Poor” said.
