1. Keep up to date with what is happening at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna: read more…
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4. At the 2010 International AIDS Conference, UNODC will launch the discussion paper “From coercion to cohesion: Treating drug dependence through health care, not punishment”: read more…
5. Strict laws on the criminalisation of drug use and drug users are fuelling the spread of HIV and other serious harms associated with the criminal market and should be reviewed: read more…
6. In a series of articles experts comment on the criminalisation of drug use and the spread of HIV. To be published to coincide with the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, which runs from 18 to 23 July 2010: read more…
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8. University of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute for Global Health will hold a seminar on ‘HIV, Drugs and Mental Health in Asia’ on July 29th to register contact the university: read more….
9. Each year the Burnet Institute in Melbourne offers short courses on issues related to illicit drugs, HIV and harm reduction: read more…
10. The Centre for Social Justice (UK) has released a Green Paper on Criminal Justice and Addiction: read more….
11. Also related …..Centre for Social Justice calls for radical shake-up of Britain’s broken criminal justice and addiction treatment systems: read more…
12. The National HIV Strategy for the United States has been released with explicit reference to the importance of needle exchange programs: read more….
13. A success story of the reversal of a serious epidemic of HIV among injectors, with mass needle exchange in the starring role (USA): read more….
14. New thinking is needed on the ‘war on drugs’: read more….
15. Almost half Russia prisoners are ill, many with HIV: read more….
16. The ACT Greens (Australia) are continuing their campaign to introduce a needle exchange program in Canberra’s jail: read more….
17. President Obama ’s chief adviser on national drug policy, former police chief Gil Kerlikowski, said that drug addiction is a health issue not one for the criminal justice system: read more….
18. Cambodia and the United Nations collaborate on community based drug dependence treatment: read more…
19. Mozambique is increasingly becoming a hub for trafficking drugs (including heroin) from Latin America to Europe, Interpol warns: read more…
20. BJA (USA) and the National Drug Court Institute announce the National Drug Court Resource Center, a repository of all drug court information, including latest research findings, funding opportunities, and breaking news: read more….
21. Limits to methadone prescription proposed by drugs agency(UK): read more…
22. STOP PRES!!! The International AIDS conference is held this week (18-23 July) in Vienna, and has focussed attention around the world on the linkages between HIV prevalence and drug policy: read more….
