Health and Harm Reduction
This page contains resources & technical guidance to help people who use drugs enhance their capacity to provide health and harm reduction services in their communities. Check back here for the latest updates.
The Injection Drug User Implementation Tool (IDUIT)
The IDUIT contains practical advice on implementing HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) programmes with people who inject drugs. Topics covered include:
– Community empowerment
– Legal reform, human rights and addressing stigma and discrimination
– Health and support services for harm reduction interventions
– Service delivery approaches
– Programme management.
The tool contains examples of good practices from around the world that can be used to support efforts to plan programmes and services with people who inject drugs. The tool is designed for use by public-health officials, managers of HIV and harm reduction programmes, NGOs – including community and civil-society organizations – and health workers. It may also be of interest to international funding agencies, health policy-makers and advocates.
The IDUIT is accompanied by a brief guide for people who use drugs as well as a training manual, both found below.
This guide is intended to outline the key concepts of the IDUIT related to prevention, treatment and empowerment with regard to HIV and HCV, and point to how activists and professionals from among the community of people who use drugs might promote better policy and practice.
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The IDUIT, published in 2016, describes how to implement effective programmes and services for HIV and HCV prevention interventions for and with people who inject drugs. The training manual is designed to support the roll-out of the IDUIT through capacity building at regional, country or local level.
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Words Matter! Language Statement and Reference Guide
Compiled by INPUD and the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD), this guide aims to explain our current position on the use of language and to provide clear advice on what is acceptable to us as communities of people who use drugs.
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On the A-Gender: Community Monitoring Tool for Gender-Responsive Harm Reduction Services for Women who Use Drugs
This tool aims to be a resource for community advocates to begin documenting, evidencing, and addressing this state of play. By doing so, community advocates can begin to identify areas and locales where gender-responsive services are severely lacking or identify services and programmes that can provide examples of good practice and be scaled up.
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2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Technical Brief
This technical brief has been developed for and by people who use drugs to have a better understanding of the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, identify the areas of relevance in the document, and consider on how it can be used at global, regional, country and state levels of advocacy to enhance the chances that commitments in the Political Declaration are met over the next five years.
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Briefing Note: Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026
The Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 is one of the first strategic documents in the entire United Nations system to align with the Sustainable Development Goals and has been generally considered one of the most progressive and community-oriented strategies ever produced by a UN agency. This brief outlines key targets set by the strategy that may be helpful for people who use drugs and the organizations representing their interests.
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Community Guide: Sex Workers who Use Drugs
This Community Guide summarises the Sex Workers Who Use Drugs: Ensuring a Joint Approach briefing paper by INPUD and NSWP, highlighting the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs. It provides an overview of the ways in which sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation and associated police harassment, intersectional stigma, compounded marginalisation and social exclusion, heightened interference and harassment from healthcare and other service providers, infantilisation, pathologisation, and an associated undermining of agency, choice, and self-determination.
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What does Universal Health Coverage Mean for People who Use Drugs: A Technical Brief
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as a concept is not new. In fact, its origins date back to the WHO Constitution of 1948 and the ground-breaking Alma-Ata Declaration from the 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care, urging governments to promote the health of all people. This principle is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Given the potential for country-level action towards realising UHC, it is important for all drug user rights advocates to stay informed . This INPUD Technical Brief explains how UHC can be both an opportunity and a concern for the health and rights of people who use drugs.