IHRA Report - The Global State of Harm Reduction 2010: Key Issues for Broadening the Response

The Global State of Harm Reduction 2010: Key Issues for Broadening the Response was launched at Harm Reduction 2010 in Liverpool in April.

As the second major report in the series, the document provides a region-by-region update of key developments in harm reduction since the first Global State report was released in 2008. It also explores several issues key to the response to drug-related harms worldwide, including increasing access to harm reduction in prisons and other places of detention, reaching people who use drugs with diagnosis, treatment and care for viral hepatitis and tuberculosis, preventing overdose-related mortality among people who use drugs, preventing and treating injecting-related bacterial infections, expanding the response to harms related to amphetamine use and addressing the current shortage of funds for harm reduction worldwide.

The report is designed to be an advocacy and reference tool for a wide range of audiences, including international donor organisations, multilateral and bilateral agencies, non-governmental and community-based organisations, including organisations and groups of people who use drugs, researchers and the media.

Click here to download the full report, or separate chapters.

If you wish to receive hard copies of the report, please email Catherine Cook at catherine.cook@ihra.net.