More than three million people regularly use heroin in Russia, yet the country's leaders have routinely refused to finance basic services, such as needle exchange or substitution therapies, which would help stem one of the world's fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemics.
Posts Tagged “drug treatment”
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After years of working in the United States, an organization that pays female drug users to be sterilized has turned its attention to Kenya, where it plans to start paying women living with HIV to submit to long-term contraception.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: Barbara Harris, Brett Davidson, contraception, drug treatment, forced sterilization, HIV/AIDS, Kenya, PMTCT, Project Prevention, reproductive health, women
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Political leaders in Ukraine must step in to halt police actions now endangering essential treatments for people living with and at risk for HIV.
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Government reluctance to provide methadone treatment or clean needles is only one of the fatal impediments to effectively addressing HIV and tuberculosis in Russia.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Maria Golovanevskaya, Russia, tuberculosis, video
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Pregnant women who use drugs are demonized by lawmakers, the media and society despite little scientific proof of harm to their offspring. What they really need is access to evidence-based, compassionate and non-judgmental care.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, pregnancy, public health, Rebecca Tolson, Russia, Ukraine, women
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The case of Switzerland shows that effective, pragmatic drug policy can be built, even in an environment of political conservatism.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Health
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, Europe, harm reduction, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, needle exchange, switzerland, video
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Physician and activist Evan Wood talks about new efforts to shift global drug policies away from ideology and toward an evidence- and human rights-based approach.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, Evan Wood, HIV/AIDS, Marta Kaszubska, Vienna Declaration, war on drugs
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If we are serious about HIV prevention, evidence-based policies such as decriminalization of personal possession must be embraced. Governments can no longer allow misguided criminal justice policies to stand in the way of public health.
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While many countries use UN World Drug Day as an occasion to persecute--and even execute--drug users, some organizations took the opportunity to emphasize the need for honest debate about drugs and for policies which seek to treat, not punish.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Equality
Topics: Alexandra Kirby, Brazil, China, death penalty, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, Iran, Vietnam
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U.S. funds are being used to support compulsory "rehabilitation" centers in Cambodia, China, and Vietnam where people who use drugs are routinely beaten, raped, and otherwise abused.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Rights & Equality, United States
Topics: Cambodia, China, Daniel Wolfe, drug policy, drug treatment, HIV/AIDS, torture, Vietnam