375 civil society groups, including prominent human rights NGOs, from across the globe have called on UN drug control authorities to urge an immediate stop to the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines.

The International Harm Reduction Development Program and the Latin America Program of the Open Society Foundations seek a bilingual Spanish/English consultant with knowledge of community-based programming to reduce harm to stimulant users. Portuguese fluency and familiarity with public health…

Harm reduction activist, Olena Kucheruk, speaks about consequences of repressive drug policy and human rights violations among the populations at risk in Ukraine.

The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has urged Poland to scale up access to antiretroviral therapy for drug users living with HIV and to increase the availability of substitute drug dependence treatment, especially for people in detention.

UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe gave this speech at the Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference, which took place in late October in Moscow. Harm reduction activists have written to him to express concern over some of his remarks.

Representatives of harm reduction, human rights and drug user groups sent a letter to UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe expressing their strong concern about his speech at the opening plenary of the Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference, which took place in late October in Moscow.

Harm reduction organizations in these regions are confronting an influx of poor quality supplies that threatens the success of their programs. Improving the quality of supplies is an important step toward an effective and sustainable HIV response. This report, by the Open Society Institute’s…

This report, by the Open Society Institute’s International Harm Reduction Development Program, summarizes the results of field assessments of women’s access to harm reduction, antiretroviral, and reproductive health services in five ex-Soviet countries.