Preventing HIV among drug users

Key publications

• HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for people who inject drugs: a systematic review of global, regional, and national coverage (The Lancet, 2010)
• WHO, UNODC, UNAIDS technical guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users (WHO 2009)

Preventing HIV in people who inject drugs

• HIV prevention among injecting drug users (UNAIDS, Paper to the 24th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, 2009)
• Policy and programming guide for HIV/AIDS prevention and care among injecting drug users (WHO, 2005)
• HIV prevention among young injecting drug users (UNODC/Global Youth Network, 2004)
• HIV Prevention among Injecting Drug Users in Transitional and Developing Countries (UNAIDS, 2006) ( fr |  es | ru )
• Advocacy guide: HIV/AIDS prevention among injecting drug users (WHO/UNAIDS/UNODC, 2004)

HIV and substitution treatment

• Substitution maintenance therapy in the management of opioid dependence and HIV/AIDS prevention: Position Paper (WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS, 2004) 
• Reduction of HIV transmission through drug-dependence treatment: Policy Brief (UNODC/UNAIDS/WHO, 2005)

HIV and prison settings

• HIV testing and counselling in prisons and other closed settings: Policy brief (UNODC/UNAIDS/WHO, 2009)
• HIV testing and counselling in prisons and other closed settings: Technical paper (UNODC/UNAIDS/WHO, 2009)
• HIV and AIDS in places of detention: Toolkit (UNODC/UNAIDS/WHO, 2009)
• Women and HIV in Prison Settings (UNODC/UNAIDS, 2008)
• More UNODC publications on HIV and prison settings 

Cosponsor links

• UNODC response to HIV and injecting drug use
• WHO response to HIV and injecting drug

UNAIDS Strategy 2011-2015

Guided by the UNAIDS Strategy 2011–2015 —the ten Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat are united in working towards the vision of “Zero new infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.”