Harm reduction organizations in these regions are confronting an influx of poor quality supplies that threatens the success of their programs. Improving the quality of supplies is an important step toward an effective and sustainable HIV response. This report, by the Open Society Institute’s Public Health Program, evaluates Global Fund grants and procurement practices in Armenia, Georgia, Russia, and Tajikistan.
This report, by the Open Society Institute’s International Harm Reduction Development Program, summarizes the results of field assessments of women’s access to harm reduction, antiretroviral, and reproductive health services in five ex-Soviet countries.
This report, from the Open Society Institute’s International Harm Reduction Development Program, presents the findings of three groundbreaking studies conducted in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine that investigate the impact that drug user registration laws have on the lives of drug users and the quality of public health policy.
This briefing from TNI summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model towards a more evidence-based and humane drug policy. The examples provide lessons learned in practice about less punitive approaches and their impact on levels of drug use and drug-related harm to the individual and society.
The Home Affairs Comitee visited the Netherlands on 2-3 November 2009 to see scanning operations in place at the container port in Rotterdam and at Schiphol international airport in Amsterdam.
According to a Review in The Lancet, engaging people who misuse drugs into medical care is a challenge. ear of disapproval and stigmatisation often discourages people with drug dependence from seeking health care. But over the past decade, the widespread adoption of harm reduction programmes—which include needle exchange, methadone substitution, and condom distribution—have helped health professionals to address the needs of those who inject drugs.
IHRA in conjunction with OSI have fed into the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ consideration of the State Report of Poland with a briefing to follow up on the mission to Poland of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, Anand Grover.
The UN Human Rights Council adopted this resolution on access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in September 2009.
The UN Human Rights Council adopted this resolution in September 2009 that recognises that a comprehensive package of services for injecting drug users is part of the right to health in the context of HIV prevention.
The International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) has recently launched this new report which brings together and documents the highly publicised and well received keynote speeches by Professor Michel Kazatchkine and Craig McClure at the international harm reduction conference in Bangkok last April.