Canberra's adult jail may get a medically supervised injecting room, after it was chosen as the preferred model for a prison needle and syringe program (PNSP).
Following a unanimous decision by the Steering Committee of EHRN, Anna Dovbakh, currently Program Director, is taking over the leadership of EHRN Secretariat from Sergey Votyagov.
The War on Drugs, mass incarceration of drug users, and the failure to provide proven harm reduction and treatment strategies has led to high levels of HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis B and C infection among prisoners.
Epidemic of hepatitis C affects primarily people who inject drugs. On World Hepatitis Day, EHRN calls attention to the importance of harm reduction programs for fighting the disease.
Recently in South Africa, drug users, harm reductionists and advocates pooled resources, seized an opportunity to overcome exclusion, and produced something hugely positive and important.
To mark World Hepatitis Day on 28 July, the World Hepatitis Alliance together with a large number of civil society organisations launch a global movement to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030: "NOhep".
