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The Effects of Drug User Registration Laws on People’s Rights and Health: Key Findings from Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine
Recent research has revealed that drug user registration laws in the former Soviet Union unfairly restrict the civil rights of drug users and impede their access to drug treatment. These laws also create conditions conducive to police corruption and abuse. Three groundbreaking studies conducted in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine investigate the impact that drug user registration laws have on the…
Achieving Universal Access – the UK’s strategy for halting and reversing the spread of HIV in the developing world A 2008 Baseline
This report provides a snapshot of the AIDS epidemic globally in mid–2008; when the UK’s AIDS strategy Achieving Universal Access was launched. More specifically, it gives a picture of the situation in the main areas of UK focus and support.
Statement of the UNAIDS Secretariat to the Sixty-First World Health Assembly Agenda Item 11.9 – Health of Migrants
Statement for the UNAIDS Secretariat calling on governments to rescind HIV-specific travel restrictions; and instead take steps to ensure access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for mobile populations, both nationals and non-nationals, as part of their commitment to move toward universal access by 2010 and to achieve Millennium Development Goal 6 by 2015.
Recommendations regarding the “UNAIDS Guidance Note on HIV and Sex Work (April 2007)”
The UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights is an independent advisory body, established in 2002 to advise UNAIDS on all matters relating to HIV and human rights. Its members act in their individual capacity. In this document, sex workers from around the world express their many concerns around human rights and HIV.
Outreaching hiv rapid testing at Mister B in Amsterdam
Another challenge for the Checkpoint volunteers was an outreach project rapid testing. From October 7th 2007 until April 1st 2008, Checkpoint offered MSM an hiv rapid test and vaccination for hepatitis on Sunday afternoons at Mister B, a leather, rubber, tattoo & body piercing shop in Amsterdam. This pilot was initially scheduled for 3 months, but was prolonged 3 months to collect more data…
Access to Technical Support
An assessment of Technical Support to Civil Society Organizations Involved in Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Programs in Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan.
Combating HIV/AIDS in the European Union and neighbouring countries, 2009-2013
The new EU strategy focuses on three key areas: 1) HIV prevention and HIV testing, 2) priority groups most at risk – in particular men having sex with men (MSM), injecting drug users (IDU) , and migrants from high prevalence areas - and 3) priority regions (Russian Federation, Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy area (ENP) countries).
Hiv home testing
In 1999 MiraTes Europe BV introduced the first HIV home test on the market in the Netherlands. Since then the MiraTes HIV HomeTest has been sold in many pharmacies in the Netherlands and through the internet. The goal of this report is to provide contribution to the discussion about the benefits of HIV self-testing and a call for clarity in the concerning EU regulations.
Gadejuristen - The Danish Street Lawyers
The Street Lawyers (Gadejuristen) provide a fascinating example of the way legal assistance can be implemented among street based drug users. The organization is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and provides legal aid to the most disadvantaged drug users in the city. In addition to sterile injecting equipment they distribute pocket size cards with questions and answers about drug laws and harm…
A Heroin User in Stockholm
We present you the life of a Swedish heroin user, Janne. We produced this movie in cooperation with the Swedish Drug Users' Union. In a society that is still intoxicated by the utopia of a drug-free world, to be a drug user is like being an outcast, feared and rejected by “normal people”.
A Drug-Free Sweden: By All Means?
Thanks to our cooperation with the Swedish Drug Users Union in the framework of the European Drug Policy Initiative project, HCLU’s video staff traveled to Stockholm in January 2009 to make a documentary about the drug policy of Sweden. We interviewed several people from various ideological and professional backgrounds, visited several organizations and institutions, we read the relevant studies…
Harm Reduction: Revolutions
Altough harm reduction was not mentioned in the Political Declaration adopted by the high level UN meeting on drugs (March 11-12, 2009), 26 countries supported a statement made by Germany that interpreted the term “related support services” (a euphemism substituting harm reduction in the text) as harm reduction services. Other governments, like the US, Japan and Russia opposed this interpretation.
Drug-free World: Reloaded
“Déja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something”, says Trinity in the movie The Matrix. The 2009 UN high level meeting on drugs was déja vu: governments recommitted themselves to the same failed UNGASS targets of 1998. The goal is still “to eliminate or significantly reduce” the demand and supply of drugs in 10 years. Only now the deadline is 2019. Déja vu, a…
Protest Against the Global Drug War - 11.03.2009
Our video was filmed at the Stop the Global War on Drugs demonstration and press conference in Vienna organized by HCLU in cooperation with INPUD, ENCOD, Youth RISE and SSDP.
Why Russia Says No To Methadone?
A film on why Russia still rejects opioid maintenance treatment regardless the fact that methadone and buprenorphine are both on the WHO's Model List of Essential Medicines. Filmed at the AIDS conference in Moscow. In Russian with English subtitles.
The True Meaning of Harm Reduction
What is really harm reduction? Interviews with participants of the “Beyond 2008” NGO forum on drugs in Vienna, from the UN building. 7th piece of the “Beyond 2008” series.
BLOG FOR HIV POSITIVE TRAVELERS
Sometimes the official information about HIV travel restrictions differs from the reality discovered by positive travelers. Recently a good friend told me that she applied for residence in Poland and she didn’t have to undergo a medical testing, contrary to the official specifications.
Please post your travel experiences in this blog so we can have a clearer idea about positive traveling and help…
Why HIV positive women want peace...
Document discussing the importance of the prevalence of peace for women who are HIV positive or at risk of infection.
Retreats for HIV positive people
HIV is still a very stigmatized disease but there are some amazing retreats you can go to with other positive people. What all HIV retreats offer is an opportunity to connect. Take a look at our list of HIV retreats to find one that will get you moving.
The Euro HIV Index 2009 - a reality check of public policy and best practice in 29 countries
This Index wants to be a reality check putting official plans and policy in contrast to actual outcomes. It illustrates the inequalities in HIV care and in societal conditions around the European Union. Such inequalities challenge not only the survival among people with HIV/AIDS but also the EU principles of equity and solidarity. The Index report is the initial step, we hope to be able to…
Найди свой путь. Как выбрать реабилитационный центр
Find your way: how to choose a rehabilitation center. A brochure for people who use drugs.
Progress on implementing the Dublin Declaration Policy Brief
This document highlights the successes and shortcomings of the implementation of the Declaration. There are 15 thematic sections complemented by nine country reports. This landmark report was written and reviewed by more than 75 experts in the field.
Progress on implementing the Dublin Declaration Policy Brief
This document highlights the successes and shortcomings of the implementation of the Declaration. There are 15 thematic sections complemented by nine country reports. This landmark report was written and reviewed by more than 75 experts in the field.
Progress on implementing the Dublin Declaration on Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia
This document highlights the successes and shortcomings of the implementation of the Declaration There are 15 thematic sections complemented by nine country reports. This landmark report was written and reviewed by more than 75 experts in the field.
International Drug Policy: An Animated Report
An Animated Report highlights some of the disastrous effects of international drug policy on human rights in recent years and proposes solutions for a way forward. In the run-up to the UN High Level Meeting on drugs in March 2009 - where the future path of international drug policy will be determined - this film seeks to show that in pursuing 'a drug-free world', we in fact do more harm than good.
Community advocacy with an impact
ICASO has been working for over seventeen years to build the capacity of community advocates on AIDS. As more opportunities for involvement in decision-making are created at national and international levels, it generates increasing demands for support for policy analysis, advocacy, networking and communications. This report places an emphasis on the key advocacy positions and messages that form…
UNGASS 2008 concluding remarks
The 2008 United Nations High-level Meeting on AIDS came to a close on Wednesday evening, 11 June 2008. During the two day meeting representatives from member states reviewed progress made in the response to the AIDS epidemic and highlighted challenges still to overcome.
Policy Brief: HIV and International Labour Migration
International labour migration (the movement of people across national borders for employment) is an increasingly important aspect of global, regional and national economies. Recent estimates indicate that 86 million people are international labour migrants.This policy brief focuses on the HIV related needs and rights of international labour migrants, regardless of their status as regular or…
Kyrgyzstan - Pioneers of Harm Reduction (Кыргызстан - пионер в области снижения вреда)
A film by HCLU made in cooperation with Adilet, an NGO in Kyrgyzstan. The films show how the Kyrgyz Republic successfully reacted to the HIV epidemic with implementing Harm reduction measures in time. The film is viewable online and downloadable from our website.