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- Morocco launches new national AIDS strategy
- Focusing resources on populations at high risk of HIV infection is at the core of a new national AIDS strategy in Morocco. Launched in Rabat on 3 April by the Minister of Health, El Hossaine Louardi, Morocco’s five-year strategy is closely aligned with the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration on AIDS.
- Joint UN Statement calls for the closure of compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centers
- Twelve United Nations entities have issued a joined statement calling for the closure of compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centers. The existence of such centers—which have been operating in many countries for the last 20 years—raises human rights issues and threatens the health of detainees, including through increased vulnerability to HIV and tuberculosis (TB) infection.
- Young drug users in Latin America need a stronger HIV response
- The 3rd Conference on Drug Policies in Latin America that took place in Mexico City from 13-14 September brought together experts, academics, civil society organizations legislators and decision makers to discuss drug consumption trends, drug related problems and the policies and interventions developed in the region.
- Recognizing the needs of female injecting drug users in north-east India
- The specific needs of women who use drugs are being addressed by UNODC and its partners in a new programme in north-east India. Operating in four states in the region, the project is providing HIV services to a key but underserved population.
- Reference Group calls on UN Member States to scale-up evidence-based interventions to address HIV among people who use drugs
- Ahead of the 2011 United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS, the Independent Reference Group to the United Nations on HIV and Injecting Drug Use has issued a statement calling for Member States to focus on HIV transmission among people who inject drugs.
- New monitoring centre helps tackle HIV in prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean
- The newly established Monitoring Centre for HIV and Prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to become a key regional repository for collecting and analysing data on HIV in prison settings.
- Middle East and North Africa ready to scale up harm reduction services in its response to AIDS
- Injecting drug use is becoming an increasingly significant mode of transmission in the Middle East and North Africa. Experts gathered recently to discuss the issue in the first international drugs-related conference to be held in the region.
- Commission on Narcotic Drugs adopts resolution on scaled up HIV prevention among people who use drugs
- The fifty-fourth session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has adopted a resolution on Achieving zero new infections of HIV amongst injecting and other drug users.
- Strategies for “getting to zero” and stopping new HIV infections among injecting drug users discussed as Commission on Narcotic Drugs opens in Vienna
- High-level experts gathered for a round table on “Getting to Zero” – Achieving zero new HIV infections for injecting drug users, in Vienna Austria on 21 March 2011. The event took place on the opening day of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) which runs in the city until 25 March 2011.
- Methadone substitution therapy helps prevent new HIV infections in Belarus
- Substitution therapy with methadone was introduced in Belarus three years ago and has since expanded from one pilot clinic to a network of centres. Today, over 450 people in eight cities across the country are receiving treatment on a daily basis.
- Kenya to adopt comprehensive HIV prevention package for people who inject drugs
- The Kenyan government is taking an innovative approach to reducing HIV among injecting drug users. In a bold new initiative, the government is set to give drug users free access to HIV prevention and treatment services.
- African HIV prisons network receives prestigious international award
- The African HIV in Prisons Partnership Network has been presented with the prestigious 2010 Healthcare Award by the International Corrections and Prisons Association. Representing a major boost for the network, the award was given during the Association's recent annual conference in Belgium.
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits methadone clinic in Cambodia
- In a recent visit to the first methadone clinic in Cambodia, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised government authorities and health workers for their efforts to reduce HIV infection and drug-related harm among injecting drug users. Launched in July 2010, the clinic has reached, to date, a total of 61 patients.
- Country spotlight Kazakhstan: ‘Funding and planning a key priority for response’
- Maksut Karimovitch Kulzhanov, the head of Kazakhstan’s Public Health Institute and representative for Eastern Europe on the Board of The Global Fund, shares his views on Kazakhstan’s progress towards MDG 6.
- UNODC: humane and effective drug dependence treatment
- Detention of HIV positive drug users is not treatment for their dependence. Drug dependence is a health disorder and punishment is not the appropriate response. This was the key message contained in a UNODC discussion paper launched at the XVIII AIDS Conference in Vienna today.
- International conference on harm reduction in Liverpool
- Harm Reduction 2010, the 21st International conference organized by the International Harm Reduction Association is taking place in Liverpool, England from 25 – 29 April 2010. Under the theme ‘Harm Reduction: The Next Generation’, the conference has attracted around 1400 delegates from around 80 countries to share knowledge, network and promote evidence-based best practices in the field of reducing harms from drugs and alcohol.
- UNODC project provides cross-border HIV services to Afghan injecting drug users
- Providing comprehensive HIV services for injecting drug users is critical to an effective HIV response. In recognition of this, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has begun to support the implementation of an initiative to make services accessible to Afghan refugees who use drugs in Iran and Pakistan, and also to Afghan drug users who have returned home.
- HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe will be highlighted at Vienna AIDS conference
- The rapidly growing AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe, fuelled primarily by unsafe injecting drug use, will be under the spotlight at the VIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), to be held in Vienna in July.
- UNICEF: Helping Ukraine’s most-at-risk young people
- Ukraine is the European country which bears the highest burden of HIV with just over 1.6 percent of the adult population estimated to be living with the virus. Among the most affected groups are young people who engage in high risk behaviour such as injecting drug use and sex work. Many of these young people live on the streets. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine aims to give vulnerable young people the tools to protect themselves against HIV.
- Call for urgent action to improve coverage of HIV services for injecting drug users
- The fifty-third session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)—the central policy-making body of the United Nations in drug related matters—is running in Vienna until 12 March 2010. A new report by the Reference Group to the UN system on HIV and Injecting Drug Use shows that the coverage of effective interventions remains far short of what is needed.