Faced with devastating funding cuts, countries and health ministries must now focus on long-term, community-centred solutions to maintain service delivery.
The consultant will develop two country reports on human rights violations, policy challenges, and recommendations, featuring insights from lived experience.
IDPC calls on governments to end drug-related human rights abuses, invest in harm reduction, and align drug policies with human rights and protect the HIV response.
Criminalised supply networks are harmful, but designating them as terrorist groups is an ill-fitting response that will disproportionately harm vulnerabilised people.
Services have closed without warning, leaving people without access to sterile syringes and opioid agonist treatment, critical to stem HIV incidence and mortality.
While the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) decriminalised cannabis cultivation, restrictions on seeds and possession limits mean most growers unintentionally break the law.
