The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of fundamental human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards.
There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested and transitionary field of multinational cooperation.
O ano de 2012 assinala uma nova etapa no histórico dos congressos brasileiros de prevenção das DST/aids. A realização desses quatro eventos constitui desafio e ao mesmo tempo oportunidade de diálogo entre tantos atores envolvidos na prevenção das DST/aids e hepatites virais.
This event presents a great opportunity to strengthen regional dialogue on the prospects and priorities of action for the prevention of STIs, AIDS and viral hepatitis throughout Latin America.
This session will give an overview of the CAHR project with presentations on the baseline research data on drug use patterns and services in the five project countries, the policy and legislative barriers faced, project challenges and recent achievements.
IDHDP is partnering with the Harm Reduction Coalition and the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy to co-host a reception to bring doctors attending the AIDS conference to the Harm Reduction/Drug Policy Zone in the Global Village.
The AIDS 2012 programme will present new scientific knowledge and offer many opportunities for structured dialogue on the major issues facing the global response to HIV.
Please join amfAR and the IAS for a day-long conference on 'HIV and drug use. Effectively Addressing the Twin Epidemics: Innovative Strategies for Healthy Communities' prior to the XIX International AIDS Conference.
The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of fundamental human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards.
Liz Evans and Dan Small from the PHS Community Services Society will be in the UK to hold free public presentations on the Story of North America's only supervised injection site, InSite.
Interested researchers in various academic disciplines, policy experts, practitioners, activists, and students are encouraged to submit abstracts of papers for presentation at the conference.