As the 3.4% of inmates in provincial detention facilities in Quebec are infected with HIV and 18.5% by hepatitis C, this video calls for the introduction of harm reduction programmes in the prisons.
This open letter, signed by 54 organisations, call to the American governments to place the human rights at the centre of the debate on drug policy in the Americas.
Despite increasing regional debate in Latin America on drug policy reforms, Brazil is at risk of sliding backwards and is poised to enact even harsher, rights-violating drug policies with the approval of new laws.
Sign the petition that calls on European Union leaders and the European Commission to recommit to fighting HIV/AIDS in Europe and keep it as a priority.
User profiles of heroin in Serbia have changed since the 1970s. As they are now at the margins of society, they face serious health and social discrimination despite existing protective laws.
AIDS is perhaps the pre-eminent example of successful investment in health: as a result of investments in HIV, mortality from AIDS and the number of new infections have decreased worldwide by 25 per cent in just the past five years.
