Harm reduction

Events

Community-led approaches to HCV testing, treatment and care

Online

31 July 2024

EuroNPUD marks World Hepatitis Day by launching a community resource on best practices for HCV testing, treatment and care.

Publications9 July 2024

Drug use stigma and reprisal: Barriers to prison needle exchange in Canada

De Shalit et al. conduct the first independent and national study of Canada's federal prison needle exchange program, determining that drug use stigma and anticipated or actual reprisal from correctional officers are preventing program uptake.

Publications9 July 2024

Synergistic effects of exposure to multiple types of violence on non-fatal drug overdose among women who inject drugs in Indonesia

Stoicescu et al. conclude the intersection of intimate partner violence and police sexual violence was associated with a nearly fourfold increase in non-fatal overdose, supporting investment in gender-responsive drug policy and harm reduction strategies.

Events

Philippine drug policy and law reform summit

Manila, the Philippines

10 July 2024

A summit to discuss the state of drug policy in the Philippines and how to better align it with health and human rights goals.

Publications3 July 2024

Testing and treatment interventions in community settings key to controlling a recent HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs in Glasgow: A modeling study

Allen et al. reveal the value of community interventions to prevent HIV outbreaks, highlighting the potential for scaled-up services for communities of people who use drugs to avert outbreaks.

Publications28 June 2024

The cost of complacency: A harm reduction funding crisis

HRI highlight how underinvestment in harm reduction in low- and middle-income countries hinders progress towards global health goals, whilst costly punitive drug policies prevail.

Blog26 June 2024

World Drugs Day 2024: Human rights and harm reduction take centre stage while UN drugs agency grapples with denial

The UN system increasingly questions the validity of the 'drug war', embracing harm reduction and decriminalisation — so why is UNODC stuck in the inertia of the past?

Blog26 June 2024

Support. Don’t Punish campaigners are dismantling the ‘war on drugs’ and building sustainable alternatives that uphold rights and dignity

In transnational solidarity, Support. Don’t Punish campaigners are dismantling the ‘war on drugs’ and building sustainable alternatives that uphold everyone's rights and dignity.

Events

Drug policies and responses: a right to health framework on harm reduction - High-level side event

Vienna, Austria

27 June 2024

On the occasion of World Drug Day, the UN SR on the right to health will present her latest report's findings and recommendations.

Publications25 June 2024

How to innovate in an emergency: legal and policy measures to scale up safe supply at supervised consumption services

HIV Legal Network identifies barriers and innovative workarounds in promoting de-medicalised safe supply of drugs.

News24 June 2024

From criminalisation to harm reduction, health and rights - IDPC statement at the interactive dialogue with the UNSR on the right to health

Stigma, discrimination, criminalisation and racism have had devastating impacts on the right to health of people who use drugs, in particular on people facing multiple and intersecting layers of vulnerability.

News24 June 2024

UN expert calls for end to the ‘war on drugs’

UN Special Rapporteur Tlaleng Mofokeng called upon member states to end the war on drugs, as a war on people and a threat to the dignity, health and rights of communities.

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