Participants at the first-ever World Hepatitis Summit urged countries to develop national programmes that can ultimately eliminate viral hepatitis as a problem of public health concern.
In August 2015, 11 YODA representatives from 7 countries met in Tirana to share their experience on harm reduction, and create advocacy plans for the future actions.
Participants in the seminar debated the international drug control system and the role that Latin America will play in the UNGASS on the world drug problem, in light of the positions taken on this issue by MERCOSUR, CELAC and UNASUR.
In December 2014, Kenya became the third country in Sub-Saharan Africa to introduce Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST), after Tanzania and Mauritius. In this report, Mainline discusses how Kenyan NGOs are dealing with the challenges posed by OST.
Concerns have been raised that participating states in the Russian-led Eurasian Customs Union like Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Kazakhstan, may also be persuaded to follow Russia in condemning OST.
The goal of the survey is to better understand how civil society organizations are financed in their HIV work, in order to inform how these organizations might be more effectively supported in contributing to the response to the HIV epidemic.
The Harm Reduction Foundation in Poland is struggling to continue its vital work amid conflicts with the local community, complaints made to the housing authority, as well as the negative attitude of local government.
A landmark report by politicians, calling for a more liberal drug regime based on human rights has raised concerns from MPs and media outlets who worry that legal challenges to prosecutions for drug possession or growing small amounts for personal use will be made using Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Drug and property-related crimes were the most common offences committed by women surveyed in five Chinese prisons and detention centres in the summer of 2013.