Items tagged with HIV/AIDS
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| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| A promising way to help drug users is ‘severely lacking’ around the world, report says [11.12.2018] | Global funding for harm reduction programs is in “crisis,” according to the latest Global State of Harm Reduction report, potentially threatening the ... |
| An opioid crisis foretold [21.04.2018] | Today’s opioid crisis is already the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. Opioid overdoses killed more than 45,000 people in the 12 months th ... |
| Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? [05.12.2017] | In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, tho ... |
| WHO and UNDP change in leadership: What views on drug policy and harm reduction? [04.05.2017] | The UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs held in April 2016 has been organized by the international drug control entities, but has confirmed ... |
| AIDS in Russia: Immune to reason [30.09.2016] | The Soviet Union began reporting HIV in 1987, and the virus took off in Russia in the early 2000s, mostly among intravenous (IV) drug users. Dirty ne ... |
| The harm reduction movement needs to rediscover its soul [04.08.2016] | People who use drugs are being marginalized even within the world of harm reduction advocacy; they were rendered virtually invisible at the AIDS2016 ... |
| Russia's 'cold turkey' approach highlights global divide over drug treatment at UN [19.04.2016] | As international leaders debated global drug law at the United Nations, a bizarre panel on heroin treatment showed just how divided countries are ove ... |
| Ahead of a key meeting, Russia is driving global drug policy into the ground [13.04.2016] | As the first major global meeting on drug policy in two decades approaches, Russia is quietly emerging as a powerful force working to perpetuate the ... |
| The UN’s war on drugs is a failure [02.04.2016] | A policy of prohibition has put the drugs trade in the hands of criminals and led to suffering for millions. 2008 was the year that the world didn’t ... |
| While Russia grapples with HIV epidemic, Moscow’s addicts share their filthy needles [23.05.2015] | The government does not offer substitution therapy or harm reduction outreach, and the impact of grassroots groups such as Rylkov, which has only 15 ... |
| The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs in 2016 [16.02.2015] | In April 2016, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to evaluate drug policy in a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGAS ... |
| Drug policy in India [14.02.2015] | India’s response to drugs flows along an extraordinary spectrum – of tradition and modernity; of widespread availability and stringent enforcement; o ... |
| A lifeline for addicts at a time of crisis [20.07.2014] | Six years into a deep recession that has seen Greece slash its healthcare budget and society come under great pressure, those working at KETHEA, one ... |
| Crisis-hit Greece sets up first "drug consumption" centre [24.11.2013] | Greece has set up its first "drug consumption" room to contain a surge of infectious diseases among drug addicts in the crisis-hit country, Greece's ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| The Vienna Declaration [29.06.2010] | The Vienna Declaration is a statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into ill ... |
| Drug policy reform in practice [14.08.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
| Call to Action: Support Global Drug Policy Reform [25.06.2009] | Call to Action World Drug Day, 26 June 2009 As the United Nations launches the 2009 World Drug Report this week, more than 40 international groups an ... |
| INCB elections [20.05.2009] | On Monday the 18th, at the UN-ECOSOC session in New York, elections took place for six members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). Th ... |
| Horse trading at the UN [19.05.2009] | NGOs in the drug policy field have criticised the outcome of the recent elections to the United Nation’s International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) ... |
| Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07.04.2009] | A clear divide in drug control approaches became apparent at the end of the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 11- ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 [05.03.2009] | Produced by an Oscar-winning studio for the Global Drug Policy Program of the Open Society Institute, International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 ... |
| Italy breaks ranks [19.02.2009] | Marco Perduca and Donatella Poretti, senators of the Radical Party have asked the Italian under-secretary on drug issues, Carlo Giovanardi, if it is ... |
| At What Cost? [19.02.2009] | A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a "drug-free world," there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has ... |
| Bangkok Dialogue [18.02.2009] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) co-hosted the First Southeast Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, 12-14 ... |
| UN System-Wide Coherence [16.02.2009] | The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, wrote a letter to the delegates negotiating the Political Declaration for the 52nd session of the UN ... |
| Global Fund supports Harm Reduction [09.02.2009] | The Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, urged the president of the UN Commission on Na ... |
| Harm Reduction Policy and Practice Worldwide [07.02.2009] | The overview lists the countries and territories around the world that support harm reduction in policy or practice. Download the overview |
| Human Rights Council and drug policy [06.02.2009] | The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Professor Manfred Nowak, has called on UN member states to adopt a rights based approach to drug po ... |
| Dutch Remain Firm on Harm Reduction [02.02.2009] | “We will be aiming for no less than securing the inclusion of harm reduction in the political declaration by which member states determine internatio ... |
| Europe and US split over drugs policy at UN [30.01.2009] | The fight over the introduction of harm reduction in the Political Declaration of the UNGASS review has now reached the newspapers. A report by Reute ... |
| Stop US Delegation in Vienna [29.01.2009] | The US delegation in Vienna continues to block any inclusion of harm reduction in the new Political Declaration – to be approved in March 2009 at the ... |
| Harm Reduction and Human Rights [29.01.2009] | IHRA’s HR2 programme released a report entitled ‘Harm Reduction and Human Rights: The Global Response to Drug-Related HIV Epidemics’. The report prov ... |
| US Harm Reduction Coalition calls for change [27.01.2009] | Nelson Mandela, showing his support for people living with HIV / AIDS Allan Clear of the Harm Reduction Coalition made an urgent appeal on the Obama ... |
| Harm reduction as part of the solution [23.01.2009] | It is still not clear what the drug policy of President Obama will be. He has not appointed his drug czar. Many high-ranking Bush Administration offi ... |
| Lifting the Ban on Harm Reduction [21.01.2009] | The Obama White House announced today that the new President supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rat ... |
| The Battle for Harm Reduction [21.01.2009] | The issue of harm reduction continues to be controversial during the negotiations in Vienna for the Political Declaration that has to be adopted in M ... |
| UN Human Rights Experts Contribute to UNGASS Review [20.01.2009] | December 2008 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment – Professor Manfred Nowa ... |
| International Support for Harm Reduction [20.01.2009] | A useful overview of UN endorsement of harm reduction measures; the legality of harm reduction services under the Drug Conventions; the obligation in ... |
| Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle [09.01.2009] | Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest re ... |
| Humane drug policies [13.06.2008] | Chinese soldiers escort drug dealers to a public sentence on International Day against Drugs in 2005. Six of them were executed. At the UN High Level ... |
| High Level Meeting on AIDS [11.06.2008] | Wednesday 11 June 2008 The 2008 High Level Meeting on AIDS opened on June 10 at the United Nations headquarters in New York under the theme 'Uniting ... |
| INCB out of step with the United Nations [03.06.2008] | The United Nations should overhaul the operations of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the quasi judicial body that monitors states’ ... |
| Safe injection site still not safe [30.05.2008] | Ignoring all the scientific evidence, Canada Health Minister Tony Clement will move to close Canada's only sanctioned safe-injection site, announcing ... |
| Human Rights, Health and Harm Reduction [11.05.2008] | ‘Human Rights, Health and Harm Reduction: States’ Amnesia and Parallel Universes’ is the transcript of a keynote speech delivered by Professor Paul H ... |
| Commenting Mr. Costa's opening remarks [21.03.2008] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) made some interesting video news items on the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. In this one leading civils soc ... |
| Statements at 2008 CND [17.03.2008] | Several government and UN officials as well as civil society organisations made interesting statements at the 51st session of the Commission on Narco ... |
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