Three activists from Ukraine, Russia and Norway and shares their insights concerning the effects of COVID-19 on people who use drugs and the responses from the community and governmental levels.
The "war on drugs", which has wreaked havoc on millions of people across the world, is rife with racism, fuels the HIV pandemic and remains a total failure.
The World Organisation Against Torture reports that some children have been deliberately shot at and targeted as proxies, adding to growing calls for an independent investigation by the UN Human Rights Council.
HIV2020 organisers recommend, among other things, that the IAS holds a smaller conference focusing on new and urgent developments and greatly increases community involvement.
As COVID-19 poses specific challenges to people from the LGBTQ+ community and people who use drugs, health-centred drug policies focusing on harm reduction and prevention are paramount.
This first documentary focuses on how people who use drugs in the Netherlands, Belgium and France have organised and formed collectives and unions to protect and defend the health and human rights of their community.