Congress's Holiday Message to People Who Use Drugs: Drop Dead
Zoe Hudson
December 16, 2011
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Congress has reinstated a ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs, despite the fact that these programs dramatically reduce HIV infections. In the midst of the fiscal crisis, states will have no choice but to cut lifesaving measures.

Preventing Drug Overdose Is Key in Fight Against AIDS
Roxanne Saucier
December 12, 2011
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For many people living with HIV, the risk of overdose presents a more imminent threat than AIDS-related illness. Despite this fact, donors and governments are slow to adopt overdose prevention measures as part of their AIDS programs. It's time for a wake-up call.

Secretary Clinton: Thank You, and More, Please
Zoe Hudson
November 9, 2011
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Calling for an "AIDS-free generation," Secretary Clinton delivered a strong and welcome speech on global HIV/AIDS. At a time of stagnating budgets and threats to foreign aid, her strong support for ramping up the fight was good news. But why no mention of vulnerable groups, like people who inject drugs, sex workers, and men who have sex with men?

A Light in the Dark: Health Services for Drug Users in St. Petersburg
August 2008
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This multimedia piece documents the work of an organization supported by the Open Society Foundations to improve the health and lives of people who use drugs.

Global Fund Round 11 Briefing Notes
August 2011
These briefing notes by the Open Society Public Health Program offer guidance on how to incorporate harm reduction best practices into proposals for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Treated with Cruelty: Abuses in the Name of Rehabilitation
June 2011
The Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care has released a new report documenting the testimonies of men and women who have been detained in abusive drug rehabilitation centers in China, Cambodia, Mexico, and Russia.

Treatment or Torture? Applying International Human Rights Standards to Drug Detention Centers
June 2011
In this publication from the Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, legal experts make the case that abuses in drug detention centers amount to torture and cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment.

Book Launch: Ernest Drucker's A Plague of Prisons
OSI-New York
October 11, 2011
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On October 11, Open Society Foundations fellow Ernest Drucker discusses his new book, A Plague of Prisons, a groundbreaking critique of mass incarceration in the United States and elsewhere.