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7 October 2009

UN Human Rights Council endorses harm reduction and access to essential medicines

The UN Human Rights Council, the highest political body in the UN dealing specifically with human rights, has adopted two resolutions of considerable importance to harm reduction – HIV/AIDS and human rights, and access to essential medicines. These resolutions recognise that harm reduction is a part of a rights based response to HIV/AIDS and that access to essential medicines is a component of the right to the highest attainable standard of health. This puts the Council in line with ECOSOC and the General Assembly and highlights again the isolationism of the CND on these critical issues.

19 September 2009

Indonesian human rights group call for non-discrimination of people living with HIV

In Indonesia, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs) have for too long stigmatized and discriminated for their illness. The Indonesian National AIDS Commission (KPAN) has to play a more active role in ensuring that not just AIDS is reduced, but beyond that that PLHAs will no longer be stigmatized and discriminated against.

19 September 2009

UK injectable heroin trial reports remarkable progress with “entrenched” addicts

Results from an initial overview of the randomised injectable opioid therapy trial (RIOTT) has shown that clients form a 'hard-to-treat' population responded well and made notable gains in abstaining from street heroin and improvements in health and social functioning.

19 September 2009

Taiwan - Harm reduction for young people

AHRN and YouthRISE have been working together to engage Taiwanese policy makers on issue of harm reduction for young people.

19 September 2009

Asia Pacific plans for UNGASS on HIV

Civil society in Asia Pacific are mobilising early for next year's UNGASS on HIV. There will be some linkages between the recent UNGASS on drugs and this upcoming UNGASS on HIV.

27 August 2009

Argentina decriminalises possession for personal use

Argentina's Supreme Court decriminalised the small-scale use of marijuana, opening the way for a shift in the country's drug-fighting policies to focus on traffickers instead of users. Elsewhere in Latin America, Colombia and Mexico have already decriminalised the possession of small amounts of drugs. Brazil and Ecuador are looking at an initiative to legalize some drug use.

26 August 2009

Letter from UNODC and UNAIDS Secretariat

On the 21st August 2009, UNODC and UNAIDS circulated a letter to clarify their common understanding of harm reduction initiatives.

26 August 2009

ICAAP 2009: Looking back - 8th ICAAP: Asian drug users claim the right to speak for themselves

Two years after the initial launch during the ICAAP in Colombo, the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD), the only regional network of drug users in Asia, is forging ahead and being formalized as an active organization driven by its membership.

24 August 2009

Launch of Brazilian Commission on Drugs and Democracy

The Brazilian Commission on Drugs and Democracy was launched last week in Rio de Janeiro. This initiative by IDPC member ,VivaRio, is a national follow-up to the recent Latin American Commission.

24 August 2009

Towards the Next UNGASS - ICAAP9 Session

On 11 August, a satellite session titled UNGASS & Community: Civil Society Involvement in UNGASS on HIV was organized by the 7 Sisters, World AIDS Campaign, UNAIDS and GESTOS at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP9).

22 August 2009

Reforming Treatment Environments - How to make compulsory drug treatment HIV friendly

A satellite session organised by Response Beyond Borders at ICAAP9 attempted to address the issue of compulsory treatment centres in the Asia region.

22 August 2009

Indonesia AIDS Commission calls for humane approach to drug control

At the recent ICAAP meeting held in Bali in August, Mr Inang Winarso (a harm reduction expert from the Indonesian AIDS Commission) called for more leadership on a humane approach to drug policy.