Investissements dans les programmes de réduction des risques : la nécessité de transformer une crise mondiale en solution mondiale

Alors que la moitié des pays où un usage de drogues par voie intraveineuse existe disposent de programmes de réduction des risques, les dépenses totales allouées à la réduction des risques dans les pays à bas et à moyen revenu ne représentent au total que 160 millions de dollars.

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The world has come a long way in providing harm reduction services to people who use drugs. Harm Reduction International (HRI) data from the past decade show that there is now some level of harm reduction programming in over half of the 158 countries with documented injecting drug use. Where in operation, harm reduction has dramatically improved and protected the health, well-being and human rights of people who use drugs.

In 2016, at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem in April and at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS in June, Member States secured strong commitments for harm reduction. These commitments now need to be translated into the necessary policy and programmatic changes, as well as investments in harm reduction programmes.

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