Epidemic of hepatitis C affects primarily people who inject drugs. On World Hepatitis Day, EHRN calls attention to the importance of harm reduction programs for fighting the disease.
Recently in South Africa, drug users, harm reductionists and advocates pooled resources, seized an opportunity to overcome exclusion, and produced something hugely positive and important.
To mark World Hepatitis Day on 28 July, the World Hepatitis Alliance together with a large number of civil society organisations launch a global movement to eliminate viral hepatitis by 2030: "NOhep".
At the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS last month, the US Government announced a new $100 million fund for key populations. They are asking for inputs and comments from stakeholders and partners around the world .
New Zealand’s much heralded regulation of new psychoactive substances (NPS) appears be at a complete standstill after its introduction three years ago.
An independent music festival in Cambridgeshire has become the first UK event of its kind to offer people the chance to have their illegal drugs tested to establish their content before they take them.
Of the 446 abstracts that contain the keywords “harm reduction,” “drug use,” and “drug policy,” only six were accepted for oral presentation and three for poster discussion.
