The brief highlights the intersections between age, gender, and drug use, making the case for why young women who use drugs are particularly vulnerable to HIV and not adequately reached through mainstream health services.
Robert Carr envisioned a global HIV response that was complex, effective, and locally specific. One that seeks to recognize and understand the unique vulnerabilities impinging upon vulnerable groups—including violence, discrimination, economic marginalization, and social injustice—and creates long-term, structural responses that are intelligent, community-centered, and realistic.
The Working Group discussed a wide range of issues related to policing for public health in key populations, beginning from the way police behave at present to members of these groups and why this might be so, through to the characteristics of an ideal policing approach to public health.
This second edition is an updated version of the original EMCDDA guidelines, which contains new methods, concepts and examples of currently available drug prevention interventions and which provides a framework for carrying out an evaluation
This report provides an analysis of the INCB report, specifically focusing on the report's foreword, thematic chapter, the Bolivia issue, and misinterpretations and omissions of key drug policy issues by the INCB.
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion of the advisability of adopting drug courts. In particular, it analyses the true scope of the model, recognising its limitations and obstacles to its implementation.
The area under coca crop cultivation in Colombia rose 3 per cent in 2011 to 64,000 hectares (ha), up by 2,000 ha compared with 2010. Overall, the picture, therefore, remained stable for the raw material used in the production of the illegal drug cocaine.
The report presents the major developments in harm reduction policy and programme implementation since 2010, enabling some assessment of global progress.
