Inquiétudes face aux nouvelles estimations sur le VIH, l'hépatite C et l'usage de drogues

Dans cet exposé, Harm Reduction International continue de remettre en question les données sur le VIH incluses dans le Rapport Mondial de l'ONUDC sur les drogues.

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In June 2013, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime released estimates on HIV, hepatitis C and injecting drug use within the annual World Drug Report (WDR). The 2013 report presents ‘new data’ that it claims reflects a global ‘decline’ in the number of people who inject drugs since the 2008 figures published by the Reference Group to the United Nations on HIV and Injecting Drug Use. In particular, this ‘updating’ of the 2008 data claims a ‘decline’ in the number of people who inject drugs living with HIV worldwide from 3 million to 1.6 million.

As the publisher of The Global State of Harm Reduction, the main independent NGO resource on the international response to HIV and injecting drug use, Harm Reduction International raised immediate concerns to UNODC about this data, in particular the use of language and graphics that attributes these considerable differences to actual changes in the HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs since 2008. As a result, UNODC released an online statement clarifying that, ‘lower estimates [in the WDR] do not represent a decrease in the epidemic, but an improved availability of more reliable data’. However, despite this online clarification the official WDR has not been similarly amended to ensure that the data is not misrepresented or misinterpreted.

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