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On the A-Gender: Community Monitoring Tool for Gender-Responsive Harm Reduction Services for Women who Use Drugs

MARCH 17, 2020 Worldwide, women who use drugs are vastly underserved within health and social services and programmes. National and international research, services, guidelines, and training programmes are either gender-neutral or male-focused. As harm reduction services are primarily tailored to men, women who use drugs often find their specific needs being unacknowledged and unaddressed, leading to non gender-responsive harm reduction… Read More »On the A-Gender: Community Monitoring Tool for Gender-Responsive Harm Reduction Services for Women who Use Drugs

Human rights groups urge the UN to intervene in execution of drug offenders in Bahrain

FEBRUARY 3, 2020 (This press release was originally published by Harm Reduction International. The full open letter is attached to the end of this article.) Harm Reduction International, the International Drug Policy Consortium and the International Network of People Who Use Drugs published open letters today calling on the United Nations’ major human rights and drug control bodies to take all… Read More »Human rights groups urge the UN to intervene in execution of drug offenders in Bahrain

We’re not there just yet: A joint statement on harm reduction and the Global Fund Sixth

17TH OCTOBER 2019 On the 10th October, 2019 history was made in Lyon, when governments, philanthropic donors and the private sector pledged US$14 billion for the Sixth Global Fund Replenishment, more than any other global health institution has ever raised. Harm Reduction International, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, International Network of People Who Use Drugs and the India HIV/AIDS Alliance congratulate the Government of France,… Read More »We’re not there just yet: A joint statement on harm reduction and the Global Fund Sixth

Injecting Drug User Implementation Tool Training Manual

October, 2019 INPUD is very excited to launch the Injecting Drug User Implementation Tool Training Manual. Developed jointly by UNODC and INPUD, in collaboration with other partners, the guidance document Implementing Comprehensive HIV Programmes with People who Inject Drugs: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions – otherwise known as the Injecting Drug User Implementation Tool (IDUIT) – was published in 2016. … Read More »Injecting Drug User Implementation Tool Training Manual

Chemsex: A Case Study of Drug-Userphobia

JUNE 2019 This report focusses on challenging the stigma and discrimination experienced by individuals who engage in chemsex, in order that they can equitably enjoy the full range of human rights afforded to all people. As with all of INPUD’s community-driven documents, it discusses and documents the human rights, health, wellbeing, and lived realities and experiences of people who use… Read More »Chemsex: A Case Study of Drug-Userphobia

Open letter re exclusion of naloxone at AIDS 2018

JUNE 2018 INPUD – alongside numerous other drug user networks and harm reduction organisations – have written to the Responsible Alderman for Health Care (Wethouder) Ms. Kukenheim, emphasising we are deeply concerned by the decision of International AIDS Society (IAS) and the Public Health Service of Amsterdam (GGD, Amsterdam) to exclude naloxone as a component of harm reduction services at AIDS 2018.   Read the… Read More »Open letter re exclusion of naloxone at AIDS 2018

Call for WHO & UNODC to revise guidelines on International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders

MARCH 2018 The International Network of People who use Drugs, along with 188 drug user organisations and working at the national, regional and international level on issues related to drug use, drug treatment, harm reduction and drug policies urge the WHO and the UNODC to revise their guidelines on International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders. In brief: The paper contains many assertions… Read More »Call for WHO & UNODC to revise guidelines on International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders

The IDUIT Brief Guide for People who Use Drugs

November 2017 Русский | Español This IDUIT Brief Guide for People who Use Drugs is intended to outline the key concepts of Implementing Comprehensive HIV and HCV Programs with People who Inject Drugs: Practical Guidance for Collaborative Interventions (the IDUIT) related to prevention, treatment and empowerment with regard to HIV and HCV, and point to how activists and professionals from… Read More »The IDUIT Brief Guide for People who Use Drugs

INPUD’s Strategic Plan 2017-2020

2017 INPUD’s Strategy for 2017-2020 outlines how the organisation will build on past achievements and lessons learned to take the global network forward into the next phase of its development. Further, it sets out how the network will be strengthened to respond to the changing environment and to confront new political challenges. The Strategy was developed following consultation with key… Read More »INPUD’s Strategic Plan 2017-2020

Philippines: An Entreaty to End the Killing, to End the Poverty and Exclusion

JULY 2016 Halt to killings of People who Use Drugs in the Philippines INPUD (the International Network of People who Use Drugs) and ANPUD (the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs) urgently request a halt be called on the killing of people who use drugs in the Philippines. We implore Your Excellency President Duterte to reconsider the current approach… Read More »Philippines: An Entreaty to End the Killing, to End the Poverty and Exclusion