While supporters say the Republican-backed legislation targets drug use and encourages responsible public spending, critics say it is unconstitutional, humiliating, and wasteful.
The dynamics of HIV are changing, and the Global Fund's approach to financing the response must change with it, with an understanding that the poorest people on the planet don't necessarily live in the world's poorest countries.
The CND is requesting civil society participation and comments for the 2016 UNGASS on drugs. This is an opportunity for NGOs to raise awareness of the need for adequate access to essential medicines.
Calls for renewed efforts to reduce the transmission of HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs were heard at the thematic segment of the 35th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board.
This article describes the legal status of cannabis in Germany in terms of possession, consumption and cultivation, as well as medical usages of the substance.
The UN agency charged with combating illicit drug trafficking should withdraw its support for counter-narcotics police operations in Iran until the death penalty for drug offences is abolished.