28th September 2023 The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places community leadership at its front and centre. Under Grant Cycle 7 (GC7), the Global Fund introduced changes to promote community leadership and engagement, harm reduction and human rights, and to support the scale-up and sustainability of… Read More »Communities at the Centre: A report back on the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (Windows 1 and 2)
November 2024 The AWID International Forum is both a global community event and a space of radical personal transformation. A one-of-a-kind convening, the Forum brings together feminist, women’s rights, gender justice, LBTQI+ and allied movements, in all our diversity and humanity, to connect, heal and thrive. PURPOSE OF… Read More »How to Enjoy a Conference – a Harm Reduction Guide
November 2024 INPUD is seeking a committed and inspirational leader to join the London Secretariat as our next Executive Director. We are seeking a person who leads by example and is able to create and contribute to an organisational environment of openness, accountability, transparency and… Read More »Executive Director – Job Description and Person Specification
November 2024 INPUD seeks a committed team member to join the INPUD Secretariat to coordinate our work under the Global Fund Community Engagement Strategic Initiative (CE-SI): Long-term Capacity Strengthening of HIV Key Population Networks and Organizations (2024-2026) project. The primary objective of the project is… Read More »Global Fund Programme Manager
On International Drug Users Day, we call for recognition and celebration of our diverse community. On this day, we are all about drug user pride! Every year on November 1st, International Drug Users Day, people who use drugs all over the world celebrate our history… Read More »International Drug Users Day: How to Engage in #IDUD24
Written by Leah McLeod 1 November 2024 will mark our 16th International Drug Users Day, #IDUD24. And how far we have come in addressing our massive agenda, things like preventing & treating blood borne viruses; tackling stigma & discrimination; reducing fatalities from overdose; expanding harm… Read More »International Drug Users Day 2024
July 2024 Congratulations to all involved in INPUD’s Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use Drugs: researchers, the 27 participants representing our global network, scribes, authors of the report. Earlier in the… Read More »Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use Drugs
January 2024 The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places more emphasis on community engagement and puts people and communities at the centre, and this principle should be embedded in one of its key instruments – a Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) and to be applied throughout Grant… Read More »Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Engagement and why it is important for People who Use Drugs – a technical brief.
The INPUD Board Chair powerfully represented drug users at AIDS2024 Closing 27 July, rousing the audience to get loud for drug law reform.
26 July 2024 The Hon Helen Clark former PM of New Zealand & Chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and musician Sir Elton John joined forces this week to write an opinion piece to coincide with the AIDS2024 Conference. For the 25th anniversary… Read More »Stop prohibition to stop HIV AIDS says Clark, John
April 2024 This strong document is INPUD’s most recent submission to the WHO-constituted Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, responsible for producing a Pandemic Agreement by May 2024. It presents the key issues for communities of people who use drugs for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. INPUD’s critical… Read More »Hanging by a Thread: Towards a Pandemic Agreement