Last year, a long term Lithuanian drug user activist, Kestutis Butkus, in partnership with the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) and the NGO I Can Live, sued the government of Lithuania for non continuation of OST treatment as well as cruel behavior during the imprisonment.
On December 19 - 21, 2012 Rumah Cemara organized “Burnout prevention training for CAHR implementing partners in Indonesia” involving 18 participants from 4 CAHR partner organizations and 3 self-help groups for injecting drug users and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV).
Obama has the opportunity to harmonize the discourse with the programs implemented on the ground and to join the presidents of countries like Guatemala, Colombia, and Uruguay who are calling for drug reform.
The Community Task Force (CTF) is a group of community affected by TB and TB activists and is composed of individuals who have served or are serving as community representatives in the Stop TB Partnership’s Working Groups or on its Coordinating Board.
Just days after cannabis was legalised in Colorado and Washington states, regulation of weed became a new hot issue in Bulgaria, after two fundamentally different poll results were published.
On January 22 – 24, 2013 in the Indian state of Bihar, India HIV/AIDS Alliance conducted training on Harm Reduction for 76 participants (Project Officers, Female Outreach Workers, Female Peer Educators and Peer Counsellors) from 15 Non-Governmental Organizations working with people who inject drugs within Hridaya project.
Middle East North Africa Harm Reduction Association (Menhara) reclutes an operational research consultant for the multi-centre operational research on female IDU and gender issues in harm reduction.
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is seeking a Senior Policy and Programme Adviser: Harm Reduction Advocacy to play a lead role in the planning, development, technical oversight and delivery of a new three-year harm reduction advocacy programme. This position will be based in the UK as part of the Brighton secretariat; or Asia and Eastern Europe Region.
