The Kolkata meeting will deliberate on the "Seven Freedoms" - the right to move, work, have access to healthcare, participate, organise, be free of violence and discrimination -- without which sex workers say they cannot reduce their vulnerability to HIV.
Human Rights and HIV/AIDS has posted a new blog by Julio Montaner: HIV ‘Treatment as Prevention’ Agenda Can’t Effectively Move Forward Without a Major Focus on Human Rights
The intensification of the methamphetamine problem in East and Southeast Asia remains the greatest drug challenge in the region, delegates were told at the UNODC Global Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends (SMART) Programme regional workshop held in Phnom Penh on 24-25 July 2012.
A list with the signatures of more than 1200 people from 40 countries asking for access to hepatitis C treatment was presented to the World Health Organization (WHO) and to the pharmaceutical companies Merck and F. Hoffmann-La Roche.
This video features the speech of Michel Kazatchkine at the International AIDS Conference, in which he calls for a human rights and health based approach to drug use.
Stephen Lewis, a well-known progressive Canadian diplomat, the former special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, held a very powerful speech at the AIDS 2012 conference in which he points out that an AIDS-free world is an illusion without ending the failed war on drugs - and drug policy reform is not possible without mainstreaming our messages.
Harm reduction activist, Olena Kucheruk, speaks about consequences of repressive drug policy and human rights violations among the populations at risk in Ukraine.
