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How People who Use Drugs Can Influence Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8)

This guide is a community-led resource to support the meaningful engagement of people who use drugs in Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (2026-2028) processes. Within this guide, we address the critical challenges and opportunities facing people who use drugs as the Global Fund enters Grant Cycle 8 amidst unprecedented funding constraints, shifting donor priorities, and mounting pressure for integration. The… Read More »How People who Use Drugs Can Influence Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8)

From Frontline Voices to Published Evidence: How INPUD’s Rapid Assessment Shaped Research on PEPFAR Funding Cuts

By Isaac Olushola Ogunkola – Global Fund Programme Manager | April 2026 In March 2025, with harm reduction services collapsing across the globe in the wake of the U.S. foreign aid freeze, INPUD launched a 12-day rapid assessment survey to capture what was happening on the ground. We heard from 101 organisations and networks across 45 countries – the vast… Read More »From Frontline Voices to Published Evidence: How INPUD’s Rapid Assessment Shaped Research on PEPFAR Funding Cuts

CND69: Between Rhetoric and Reality

A View from the Community By Anton Basenko, INPUD Executive Director Jointly with peers from EuroNPUD and AfricaNPUD The 69th session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND69), held in Vienna from 9–13 March 2026, once again positioned itself as the central event for global drug policy debate. With over 2,000 participants from governments, UN agencies, and civil… Read More »CND69: Between Rhetoric and Reality

Welcome to INWUD: Relaunch of the International Network of Women who Use Drugs

The International Network of Women who Use Drugs (INWUD) has relaunched! INWUD is a global network of women who use drugs, drawing power from lived and living experience and the ongoing, gendered struggle against the war on drugs. INWUD aims to provide a women-only safe space for engaging in global advocacy, inclusive of all women and gender non-conforming people. In… Read More »Welcome to INWUD: Relaunch of the International Network of Women who Use Drugs

69th UN CND Side Event

Join us for a hybrid CND69 side event launching new guidance on the decriminalisation of drug use in the context of HIV.

Position Paper: Strengthening Key Populations’ Role in Global Health Initiatives

A new position paper by Global Action for Trans Equality, Global Network of Sex Work Projects, International Network of People who Use Drugs, and MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights calls for key population communities to be placed at the centre of the global HIV response. This position paper outlines the critical role that key population communities… Read More »Position Paper: Strengthening Key Populations’ Role in Global Health Initiatives

Obituary — Theo van Dam

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With deep sadness, the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) mourns the passing of Theo van Dam — a legendary activist, movement builder, and uncompromising voice for the rights and dignity of people who use drugs in the Netherlands, across Europe, and globally. Theo was one of the pioneers of the Dutch drug user movement in the 1990s… Read More »Obituary — Theo van Dam

The Canary in the Coal Mine?: Community Lessons From the Global Fund GC7 Mid-Cycle Reprioritisation

This report is a community-led assessment of the Global Fund’s GC7 mid-cycle grant adaptation and reprioritisation. Within this report, we raise critical issues that have intensified as a result of the high political and financial uncertainty facing global health, the fate of lifesaving efforts for HIV, TB, and malaria, and the future of community-led programming and services for and by… Read More »The Canary in the Coal Mine?: Community Lessons From the Global Fund GC7 Mid-Cycle Reprioritisation

Integration Without Erasure: Brief to the Global Fund

This brief offers practical recommendations to the Global Fund on how to integrate services responsibly, with communities at the centre and rights protected. The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has declared that in the impending Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) it will accelerate the integration of HIV, TB and malaria (HTM) efforts into primary health care (PHC) and… Read More »Integration Without Erasure: Brief to the Global Fund

Learnings from the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award

This resource shares key learnings from the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award, a programme empowering women who use drugs through mentorship, leadership development and community advocacy. The Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award honours the memory of the legendary drug user advocate Jude Byrne. Established in 2022 by the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD) and the… Read More »Learnings from the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award