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Mental Health & Self-Care Database – Request for Proposals (RFP)

11 March 2022 INPUD is seeking a consultant or company to develop an online resource database to support mental health, wellbeing and self-care among peer workers and activists in drug user-led organisations and networks of people who use drugs. The dual COVID-19 and HIV pandemics over the past few years, have brought increasing pressures for our networks globally. The aim… Read More »Mental Health & Self-Care Database – Request for Proposals (RFP)

#PowerOfPeers: International Drug Users Day 2021

1 November, 2021 For years we have heard lip service from governments and policymakers about how community is a critical actor in the global health space. Yet while verbal commitments continue to be recycled, people who use drugs at the community level continue to experience criminalisation, exclusion and injustice. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided us with more proof that in… Read More »#PowerOfPeers: International Drug Users Day 2021

Ending Inequalities for People who Use Drugs: How the Global HIV Response can Transform Drug Policy (and vice versa)

14 March, 2022; 12:15 CEST This side event for the 65th Commission on Narcotic Drugs was originally presented on 14 March, 2022. Organised by INPUD, it was co-sponsored by Médecins du Monde, UNAIDS, UNODC HIV/AIDS Section, the Netherlands and Australia. We thank the Robert Carr Fund and Love Alliance for their financial support. We would also like to thank the… Read More »Ending Inequalities for People who Use Drugs: How the Global HIV Response can Transform Drug Policy (and vice versa)

Call for Consultant Mentors for the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leaders Award

March 2022 The International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD) in collaboration with the International Network of Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) have announced the first round of the new Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leaders Award. This ground-breaking mentorship program will not only honour the memory and legacy of Jude’s decades of activism but will continue her… Read More »Call for Consultant Mentors for the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leaders Award

Global Call for Solidarity with People who Use Drugs in Ukraine

3 March, 2022 INPUD stands in solidarity with the Ukranian Network of People who Use Drugs (PUD.UA/VOLNA), the Ukranian Network of Women who Use Drugs (UNWUD/VONA) and all Ukrainian peers, colleagues, and friends against the invasion of their country by Russia. This senseless act of aggression has unnecessarily put countless lives at risk. As during all times of war and… Read More »Global Call for Solidarity with People who Use Drugs in Ukraine

Joint Response by Key Population Networks to OHCHR: Human Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS (HRC Resolution 47/17)

21 February, 2022 Pursuant to the Human Rights Council Resolution 47/17, “Human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS” adopted on 13 July 2021, the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD), Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE), the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), and MPact: Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights have provided… Read More »Joint Response by Key Population Networks to OHCHR: Human Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS (HRC Resolution 47/17)

Desk Review: Assessing Participation of People who Use and Inject Drugs in Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanisms

June 2018 This summary report is designed to support the development of a research protocol to collect qualitative data among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Asia in order to inform the preparation of a capacity building tool and guidelines for meaningful PWID engagement with Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM). Although the Terms of Reference for this assignment focuses on five… Read More »Desk Review: Assessing Participation of People who Use and Inject Drugs in Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanisms

Facilitating the Meaningful Engagement of People who Use Drugs in Country Coordinating Mechanisms

December 2018 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) is the most important donor agency supporting projects and programmes targeting people who use and inject drugs globally. Between 2002 and 2014 the Global Fund supported 151 grants in 58 countries and one regional grant, all of which included activities to support people who inject drugs, with… Read More »Facilitating the Meaningful Engagement of People who Use Drugs in Country Coordinating Mechanisms

Call for Peer Mentors for the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leaders Award

March 2022 The International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD) in collaboration with the International Network of Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) have announced the first round of the new Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leaders Award. This ground-breaking mentorship program will not only honour the memory and legacy of Jude’s decades of activism but will continue her… Read More »Call for Peer Mentors for the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leaders Award

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for People who Inject Drugs: Community Voices on Pros, Cons, and Concerns

May 2016 Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a new tool for preventing HIV transmission and has sparked considerable discussion and debate in many communities. In 2012, based on evidence that PrEP is safe and effective, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended that countries consider daily oral PrEP as an additional prevention strategy for HIV-negative partners in serodiscordant couples, as well as… Read More »Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for People who Inject Drugs: Community Voices on Pros, Cons, and Concerns