HCLU has warned that rates of hepatitis C infection among injecting drug users in Budapest almost doubled between 2011 and 2014 – in a period when access to harm reduction programmes rapidly decreased.
A pesquisa tem por objetivo fazer uma avaliação inicial do trabalho da sociedade civil no campo das drogas e medir o nível de conhecimento e interesse em participar ativamente do evento no ano que vem.
Ecuadorian lawmakers have proposed a historic piece of legislation aimed at decriminalising all illegal drugs while establishing a system that provides prevention and rehabilitation programmes as an alternative to jail.
WHO has released a new version of the Model List of Essential Medicines to include new treatment options for hepatitis C, hence improving access to ground-breaking drugs that could greatly impact public health around the world.
The “Da Proibição Nasce o Trafico” campaign aims to stimulate debate in a country that has been largely reluctant to broach the issue of liberalising its drug laws.
A consortium of over 100 human rights and drug policy organizations have released an open letter calling on the UN to prioritize human rights over punitive law enforcement in its approach to drug laws.
After years of discussion in Puerto Rico, the governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has signed an executive order legalising medical marijuana allowing patients to receive appropriate treatment.
Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Paris have to date all put in applications to open a supervised injection site (SIS) for drug users, becoming the first to do so under a groundbreaking law introduced last month.
Prisons in Canada are suffering a public health emergency, with the estimated prevalence rates of HIV and hepatitis C being considerably higher than in the general population.