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.
Posts Tagged “Russia”
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Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: Canada, China, drug treatment, drug users, Global Fund, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, naloxone, overdose, PEPFAR, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, UNAIDS, United States, UNODC, Vietnam, World Health Organization
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Improved relations with the European Union are essential for Ukrainian citizens to be able to advocate for their fundamental rights and freedoms.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Association Agreement, Brussels, Civic Expert Council, Dmytro Shulga, Eastern Partnership, European Union, International Renaissance Foundaiton, President Yanukovich, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian Platform of the Civil Society Forum of Eastern Paternership, We are Europeans, Yulia Tymoshkeno, Yury Lutsenko
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In the past few years Russia has emerged as a self-proclaimed leader in the fight against HIV. Yet why have rates of HIV infection skyrocketed among that country’s own population?
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Igor Kuzmenko chronicles how opioid substitution therapy can offer drug users in Ukraine the chance to stabilize their lives and start anew.
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Although hepatitis C is curable, most patients outside of the developed world are unable to access treatment, due largely in part to prohibitive pricing of lifesaving medicines.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, Brazil, drug users, Georgia, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, human rights, India, Indonesia, public health, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, United States, video, World Health Organization, World Hepatitis Day
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Moldova voted against the recent UN resolution supporting LGBT rights, an action that undercuts its aspirations to move towards closer relations and possible membership of the European Union.
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Over the past decade, governments have increasingly turned to arbitrary detention, cruelty, and even torture in order to combat drug abuse.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Cambodia, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, China, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international justice, Mexico, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, torture, war on drugs
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Nearly 10 million people—innocent or guilty—around the world are detained before trial, sometimes for months and even years. Infectious diseases such as HIV spread quickly in these settings, but few provide even basic health care.
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Russia saw a rare feat in health care this week: When patient advocates called for less expensive HIV treatment, one drug manufacturer responded by cutting the price in half.
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Recent videos, some serious and some satirical, examine the unintended consequences of punitive drug policies.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug policy, Europe, global drug policy, HIV prevention, methadone, opiate substitution treatment, Peter Sarosi, Russia, UN, UNODC, video, video advocacy, war on drugs