The project's goal was to implement the effective harm reduction services for female injecting drug users and improve the quality of female IDUs’ lives, as measured by their own reports. The International HIV/AIDS Alliance adopted an approach that recognized gender roles and gendered socialization in the drug using culture and in the society without reinforcing stereotypes about women or about female IDUs.
East Asia and South-East Asia are major centres for the illicit manufacture of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS). There has been a significant expansion in the manufacture, trafficking and use of methamphetamines in the past five years. This, plus the increasing involvement of transnational organized criminal groups in the ATS drug trade pose a growing threat to security and public health in the region, warns a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
This brief seeks to bring attention to policies, laws and practices that undermine the rights of women who use drugs, and to promote the realisation of their human rights in terms of an effective harm reduction response to HIV.
Este documento procura chamar a atenção para as políticas, leis e práticas que minam os direitos das mulheres que usam drogas e promover a concretização dos seus direitos humanos em termos de uma resposta efectiva de redução de riscos para o VIH.
This report concludes that dependent individuals should always be cared for and treated without being stigmatised, whatever their particular circumstances.
To reach targets and bring the end of AIDS in sight we must step on the accelerator. Joining with partners, UNAIDS has mapped a new framework for AIDS investments, focused on high-impact, high-value strategies.
When prisoners are released and return to communities, an often overlooked concern is the health care needs that former prisoners have and the role that health care plays in how successfully they reintegrate. This volume examines the health care needs of newly released prisoners in California.
This EMCDDA Selected issue focuses on mortality among drug users due to all causes, of which drug-induced deaths (overdoses) is only a component, albeit the one most well-documented.
Esta publicação do OEDT foca a mortalidade nos utilizadores de drogas provocadas por todas as causas, das quais a morte induzida por drogas (overdose) é apenas um componente, se bem que uma das mais bem documentadas.
Esta Publicação do OEDT fornece uma perspectiva exploratória dos custos associados ao tratamento da dependência de droga na Europa.
