After the cessation of Global Fund funding, three organisations continued implementing outreach and needle exchange programmes, but the Serbian government is not taking over the funding of those interventions upon itself.
The E-Book of Authorities catalogues agreed UN statements and language on a selection of topics, to show the extent of existing international support for evidence-based drug policies.
This event at the 58th Commission on Narcotic Drugs highlighted the existing stigma held against drug users and the need for evidence-based drug dependence treatment and care.
Although EU countries have made the campaign for worldwide abolition of the death penalty for drug offences a foreign policy priority, many of these states actively perpetuate the death penalty for drug offences by aiding and assisting aggressive anti-drug raids in countries which execute alleged drug offenders.
For most people affected by drug use problem, there are family members who are affected also. The negative consequence can be more serious when it is a mother who is using drugs.
The House of Commons in Canada passed Bill C-2, that bans supervised injection facilities like Insite and overturns a supreme court decision's on the right to access the safe injection facility.
The Speakers Bureau will be composed of people living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS, TB and/or malaria that will help to mobilise resources for the Global Fund.
INPUD’s video, Slow Death in Ukraine, documents some of the on-the-ground impacts of Russia’s annexation of Crimea on people who use drugs, on their health, and on their human rights. It also explores the catastrophic impacts of the ongoing war in Eastern Ukraine.