This campaign focuses on spreading awareness to both reform harm reduction policies around the world and reduce the stigma surrounding drug substitution therapy. The campaign features two superheroes, Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe, who work together to help injecting drug users in distress and promote substitution therapy on a global scale.
IDPC is proud to announce that its Drug Policy Guide to national policy makers is now available in Russian. The Guide is now available on our website in English, Spanish and Russian, and will soon be available in French.
Michel Kazatchkine, the Executive Director of the Global Fund, encourages all who will be attending the International AIDS Conference in Vienna to attend the Human Rights March and Rally on the 20th July 2010, calling the event a ''great opportunity to unite everyone involved in the fight against AIDS at a defining moment in the history of the response.”
On 23rd June, the Bombay High Court admitted a petition challenging the constitutionality of Section 31 A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act) that prescribes a mandatory death sentence for certain drug offences upon subsequent conviction.
Mr. Marco Di Paolo, a multiple sclerosis sufferer from the town of Sulmona, went to court to have access to medical marijuana. The judge ruled that, under certain circumstances, the Local Health Authority is obliged to provide marijuana for medical purposes.
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, stresses the importance to "Think Health, Not Drugs". He calls for the adoption of measures that reduce the harmful effects of drug use’ as a crucial part of the battle to combat HIV/AIDS, along with a social and economic development approach in drug-growing regions.
The Open Society Institute seeks a full-time senior program officer in its New York office for the International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD).
At its 47th regular session in May 2010, the OAS’s Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission adopted a new hemispheric drug strategy, replacing the last one adopted in 1996. Despite much skepticism as to what would be the final result, the strategy is in fact a significant step forward.
The CORRELATION Network will organise a number of thematic seminars in the second half of 2010. Each seminar will provide profound insights in the specific topic and includes a policy dialogue session with relevant policy makers.
In its Concluding Observations on Colombia, Mauritius and Kazakhstan, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights released its most progressive statements so far on harm reduction and alternative development.