This statement responds to the recent report released by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover, which highlighted key issues of concern regarding the current drug control policy and called for a fundamental shift in drug policy.
This statement responds to the recent report released by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, which highlighted key issues of concern on drug control and called for a fundamental shift in drug policy.
As a result of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health Resolution No. 634, the level of criminalisation of users of the most wide-spread illicit injection drugs has been increased 20-fold. This new resolution, along with other recent developments, threatens harm reduction efforts to contain the HIV epidemic in a country where injecting drug use is the key driver of HIV.
As a result of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health Resolution No. 634, the level of criminalisation of users of the most wide-spread illicit injection drugs has been increased 20-fold. This new resolution, along with other recent developments, threatens harm reduction efforts to contain the HIV epidemic in a country where injecting drug use is the key driver of HIV.
As a result of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health Resolution No. 634, the level of criminalisation of users of the most wide-spread illicit injection drugs has been increased 20-fold. This new resolution, along with other recent developments, threatens harm reduction efforts to contain the HIV epidemic in a country where injecting drug use is the key driver of HIV.
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, visited Cambodia's first methadone maintenance therapy clinic on 28 october in central Phnom Penh as part of a two-day visit to the Kingdom.
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, visited Cambodia's first methadone maintenance therapy clinic on 28 october in central Phnom Penh as part of a two-day visit to the Kingdom.
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, visited Cambodia's first methadone maintenance therapy clinic on 28 october in central Phnom Penh as part of a two-day visit to the Kingdom.
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The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, visited Cambodia's first methadone maintenance therapy clinic on 28 October in central Phnom Penh as part of a two-day visit to the Kingdom.