The International Overdose Awareness Day committee is calling people to add their voice to a day calling attention to reducing the global scale of drug fatalities.
The CRG technical assistance programme from the Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) Department at the Global Fund is now ready to receive requests for support.
This letter, signed by over 80 organisations, calls for an end to the war on drugs in an effort to protect children both in Latin America and the United States.
Following the groundbreaking call last month by the World Health Organization (WHO) for countries to stop criminalizing drug use and treat the issue as a public health one, this infographic outlines the stance of a handful of UN agencies toward drug decriminalization.
Two presentations given at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), held in Melbourne, Australia, provide significant evidence that harm reduction programmes successfully prevent HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID).
This video gives a wonderful overview of the failure of the war on drugs which lasts since forty years and sums up the several drug-related alternatives which have been adopted in different European countries but also all around the world.
The discussion is part of a series of public hearings, and aims to determine whether the issue will provide the subject of a new bill, taking into consideration a report to be drawn up by Senator Cristovam Buarque.