“Everything collapses in front of your eyes. Yet you are still here, standing strong. You have food to eat and a bed to sleep. It is a miracle”. For Ukraine, 2022 has been a year about fighting back against the full-scale invasion by Russia launched… Read More »The Will to Live and to Win: people who use drugs fighting for their lives in Ukraine.
We are proud to announce the launch of our community-led research report, the Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Voices of People Who Use Drugs. This report gives a global perspective on the experiences of people who use drugs during the Covid-19 and evidence-based recommendations to inform… Read More »Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Voices of People Who Use Drugs.
On Thursday 27 April, members from INPUD got together to learn more about the process, progress, and lessons learnt on the current Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 and to share knowledge with the countries applying in Window 2,3 and onwards. The speakers were from Indonesia, Nigeria, Ukraine… Read More »Global Fund Technical Support hub- Grant Cycle 7 lessons learnt.
The International Network of People who Use Drugs stand in solidarity with peer-led networks and civil society organisations today in condemning Singapore’s execution of Tangaraju s/o Suppiah, another casualty of the unjust, excessive, oppressive, and ineffective war on drugs. Our opposition to the death penalty… Read More »INPUD condemns Singapore’s execution of Tangaraju.
We have produced Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 guide to support the engagement of people who use drugs within the Global Fund processes for Grant Cycle 7 2023 -2025 (formerly known as NFM4). The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places community leadership at its front and… Read More »Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 Technical Guide
The Global Fund Complaints Mechanism is a tool that people who use drugs can utilise when reporting issues of corruption, fraud, human rights violations, mismanagement, and misuse of Global Fund funding to ensure that they are investigated and resolved. The Global Fund is the largest… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism
Too often women are silenced and ignored. INWUD’s blog aims to create space for women to express themselves, to be heard and acknowledged. It is a platform to share life stories, views, experiences and to inspire each other to reclaim what is rightfully ours: our… Read More »Women talk about their use of drugs.
Born in 1999 in Dagoretti, Nairobi Kenya, I was abandoned and left under the care of MY grandmother who unlike majority of grandparents who love care and treasure their grandchildren, MY case was different since I was mistreated and malnourished by my maternal grandmother. My… Read More »My case story: Rita Nyambura
Hi there! My name is Marina, I am here to tell you the history of how Cannabis changed the course of my life. I grew up in a rural and remote area called Colonia Aurora, which has a very small population. We had a pharmacy… Read More »Magic green medicine
This will tell you where I was and where I am now. I started using crystal methamphetamine, also known as known “TIK,” when I was 27 years old. I had recently lost my mother, who meant the world to me and was my everything. My… Read More »My name is Natalie Jacobs, and this is my experience as a substance user.