The conference was hosted by KANCO and brought together over 600 participants from more than 20 countries. It was a rare opportunity for Eastern Africa to have a conversation about drug policies that are progressive and that put people and communities first.
On International Women's Day: Recognising the women incarcerated for drug offences in Indonesia, and the urgent need for a gender sensitive approach for drug offences.
Building on twenty years of youth activism against the drug wars, Students for Sensible Drug Policy offers an overview of upcoming actions that exemplify the network's dynamism and growth.
World Cancer Day asks us to reflect on how we can play our part, as a collective or as individuals, in reducing the global burden of cancer. The “global burden of cancer” is actually an aggregate of the very real burden that falls on individual people: on cancer patients, their family members and…
By Katherine Pettus, PhDAdvocacy Officer, International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)
Efforts to harmonise drug legislation in the region could contribute to the health and wellbeing of West Africans, but punitive approaches remain dominant.
An independent scientific analysis on injecting drug use and HIV prevalence has offered further detail on global statistics, which should prompt urgent political commitment.
0n 7th September 2017, the Ugandan Ministry of Health authorized the Uganda Harm Reduction Network and Community Health Alliance Uganda to pilot needle and syringe programmes in a few designated health facilities in the country.
This CCPCJ side event was an opportunity to highlight best practice examples of countries having moved towards more proportionate sentencing and alternatives to incarceration for drug offences.
The side event held at the 60th Commission on Narcotic Drugs offers insights into how drug policy indicators could aid in achieving the Sustainable Development Agenda.
Policy interventions should capitalise on the self-regulatory and harm reduction practices deployed by the communities of users of crypto-drug markets.
Jamie Bridge explores Resolution 60/12 which, for the first time, calls specific attention to harm reduction and the dire need for funding to combat HIV.
