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The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and his wife, Ban Soon-taek, visited Cambodia's first methadone maintenance therapy clinic on 28 October in central Phnom Penh as part of a two-day visit to the Kingdom.
Throughout November 2010, the Transnational Institute has conducted a community-based study and review of the cultivation, trade and use of kratom. The study has found little evidence of harms related to either eating or drinking kratom.
This is a call for submission for the first Regional Dialogue for the Asia-Pacific region, which will take place on 24-25 February 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.
As a result of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health Resolution No. 634, the level of criminalisation of users of the most wide-spread illicit injection drugs has been increased 20-fold. This new resolution, along with other recent developments, threatens harm reduction efforts to contain the HIV epidemic in a country where injecting drug use is the key driver of HIV.
On 11th October 2010, coca growers in three provinces of La Paz, Bolivia, demonstrated in the North and South Yungas in protest to the Bolivian government’s latest attempt to restrict and control coca leaf production and sales.
On 11th October 2010, coca growers in three provinces of La Paz, Bolivia, demonstrated in the North and South Yungas in protest to the Bolivian government’s latest attempt to restrict and control coca leaf production and sales.
On 11th October 2010, coca growers in three provinces of La Paz, Bolivia, demonstrated in the North and South Yungas in protest to the Bolivian government’s latest attempt to restrict and control coca leaf production and sales.
The first meeting of the Commission took place in October 2010 in Brazil, to discuss priority HIV-related legal and human rights issues on which the Commission's work will focus over the next 18 months.
The first meeting of the Commission took place in October 2010 in Brazil, to discuss priority HIV-related legal and human rights issues on which the Commission's work will focus over the next 18 months.
The central purpose of the DCAM website is to assist all organisations and individuals interested in accelerating access to medicines policy change by providing the guidance materials and data they need.
The central purpose of the DCAM website is to assist all organisations and individuals interested in accelerating access to medicines policy change by providing the guidance materials and data they need.