While progress towards an AIDS-Free World can be seen in many countries, a world without AIDS is not possible unless we get real about meeting the needs of young people most affected by HIV.
Five ukrainian government agencies have recently adopted an inter-ministerial order that ensures access to opiate substitution therapy by patients at police detention centers and pre-trial detention settings.
Conversations with children in the north of Thailand revealed that every youth shelter in the area has at least three hilltribe children who were left abandoned after the war on drugs.
Injecting drugs has now become the second most common way to contract the virus in Romania. The year 2011 saw 129 new cases of HIV among injecting drug users after 12 new cases had been registered in 2010.
The harm reduction overviews of 30 European countries are based primarily on data from structured questionnaires and standard tables on harm reduction interventions.
Written for health care professionals, the "Guidance document for supervised injection services" provides advice considering supervised injection services in their local areas.
In November, TS Hub Kiev and Rumah Cemara conducted a workshop for research teams from China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and Malaysia in Bali, Indonesia.
Lao People's Democratic Republic's position at the hub of the Greater Mekong Subregion make it "extremely vulnerable" to the trafficking of people, illicit drugs and commodities by transnational organised crime groups, warned Yury Fedotov.
This is an initiative to raise funds to produce a documentary on the failure of the War on Drugs, told by some of the world's leading lawmen and women who have spent their lives enforcing the drug laws. The funding race is to raise $50,000 via Pozible crowdfunding from December 12.
