1 April 2022 Surviving and Thriving: Lessons in Successful Advocacy from Drug-User Led Networks showcases what local and regional drug user-led networks can do when they have adequate resources through accessible and sustainable donor funding. The networks featured in these case studies took on projects… Read More »Surviving and Thriving: Lessons in Successful Advocacy from Drug User-Led Networks
18 February, 2021 Much of the research which informs policy and decision making systemically excludes communities and key populations such as people who use drugs, people who live on the streets, transgender people, sex workers and men who have sex with men. Narratives which inform… Read More »Taking the Lead: Addressing the Critical Role of Communities in Research
13 April, 2021 ‘We Are the Evidence’: Community-Led Responses on Decriminalisation, Harm Reduction and COVID-19 is a discussion on why and how people who use drugs should be at the centre of advancing policy towards decriminalisation of drugs. INPUD, along with HIV Legal Network, UNAIDS… Read More »‘We are the Evidence’ – Community-led Responses on Decriminalisation, COVID-19 and Harm Reduction
24 May, 2021 The United Nations General Assembly 2021 High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (HLM) will take place from 8-10 June 2021. This kind of meeting only occurs once every five years and is a critical opportunity for people who use drugs to push for policies… Read More »Why Should We Engage in the 2021 UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS? (Video)
8 June, 2021 The right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health of people who use drugs is interdependent and indivisible from a range of rights, including the right to non-discrimination and self-determination, the right to be free from arbitrary detention, violence… Read More »The Right to Rights: How do we get there for People who Use Drugs
15 July, 2021 As more countries move towards decriminalizing drug use and drug possession, it is crucial to listen and center the perspectives people who use drugs have on these policies. Without taking into consideration whether the needs of the people most impacted by criminalisation… Read More »Drug Decriminalisation: Progress or Political Red Herring? (Video)
22 September, 2021 This forum was held to familiarise networks and communities of people who use drugs with the concept of Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) evolution, what value it brings to the community and how peers can get more engaged in Global Fund… Read More »INPUD Peer Technical Support Forum: Global Fund County Coordinating Mechanism (Video)
6 October, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life as we know it, forcing us to adjust to new realities under lockdown conditions that all too often left people who use drugs behind and at increased risk of harm as many of the health services we… Read More »Peers in the Pandemic: How Networks of People who Use Drugs Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Video)
26 October, 2021 As a part of the Global Fund Community, RIghts and Gender Strategic Initiative (CRG SI), INPUD organised a 3rd Peer Technical Support Hub on the topic of Short-term technical assistance for the community of people who use drugs. This webinar explains the… Read More »Global Fund Short Term Technical Assistance for People who Use Drugs: 3rd Peer Technical Support Hub
22 October, 2015 Pусский | Español | Français | 简体中文 This Community Guide summarises the Sex Workers Who Use Drugs: Ensuring a Joint Approach briefing paper by INPUD and NSWP. The community guide highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs. It provides an overview of the… Read More »Community Guide: Sex Workers who Use Drugs