INHSU Conference 19-21st of October 2022 INPUD attended the annual INHSU conference held in Glasgow, Scotland. This year INPUD was on the Steering Committee and the Community Committee. We delivered multiple presentations on various panels including the role and importance of community-led values and preferences research, HCV elimination amongst people who inject drugs and in prisons and how to get… Read More »Meaningful and effective partnerships
INPUD’s Executive Director is a member of the Developed Country NGO Delegation to the Global Fund Board, who is the largest funder of harm reduction and people who use drugs programming in the world. This Board meeting was the first where INPUD attended as a member of this delegation, which was a particularly important one given that it was post-Replenishment… Read More »Global Fund Board Meeting 15-17th of November 2022
Our regional drug user networks are actively working to realise the human rights of people who use drug. From November 25-28 the Latin American and Caribbean Network of People who Use Drugs (LANPUD) held its 1st meeting of women and dissidents in the city of Olinda, Recife in Brazil. Participants valued each other’s contexts and realities in order to denounce… Read More »Promotion of self determination
More funding for organisations and initiatives led by people who use drugs is required to eradicate societal barriers keeping us from accessing harm reduction services. Actions that need to be taken both in the long term and short term for women who use drugs include: Disparities between need and funding for key populations The most recent finding from the Funders… Read More »Change narrative on funding
Currently a process is underway to negotiate a new international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR). On 5-7 December 2022, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body [INB] (constituted by WHO member states), will meet in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the recently released ‘Conceptual Zero Draft of the New International Instrument on PPR’. This statement is a response to the proposed… Read More »INPUD statement on Conceptual Zero Draft of PPR Instrument
The Portuguese model of (partial) decriminalisation is an important first step, but it is not the end point. In conclusion, ‘decriminalisation’ must mean just that: not partial decriminalisation, no compulsory drug dissuasion committees, but full decriminalisation of people who use drugs. A full removal of all criminalising legislation and policy, as well as penalisation and sanctioning, related to people’s personal… Read More »Decriminalisation in Portugal: Through the Lens of People who Use Drugs
At the Lisbon Addiction Conference, Judy Chang was part of the Hepatitis C prevention and treatment among people who inject drugs: Global progress and future requirements discussion. She focused on Community perspective on access to harm reduction. A comprehensive design of harm reduction services should ensure that people who use drugs can do so safely with their human rights… Read More »Community perspective on access to harm reduction
At the Lisbon Addictions 2022 Conference Judy Chang was part of a discussion about the creation of a comprehensive gender strategy in drug policy in Europe. The discussion on gender perspective in drug policy included a policy maker, with Judy providing a user perspective, a practitioner, and a scientist. The future for gender equity in drug policies lies in gender… Read More »How to incorporate gender perspective in drug policy in Europe
Black Initiative for a New Drug Policy (INNPD) is launching a short documentary that shows how the war on drugs is an instrument of racism, which incites violence and hinders democratic development in Brazil. INNPD is the first black civil organisation in Brazil which addresses the importance of drug policies on the lives of black people. As Nathália Oliveira, co-founder… Read More »THE BLACK INITIATIVE: Fighting Brazil’s Racist War on Drugs
Kenya: Nairobi This week, more than 20 delegates from AfricaNPUD and MENANPUD got together to learn more about making the voices of people who use drugs heard in conversations about the protection and promotion of their human rights. People who use drugs are more likely to contract HIV, hepatitis and have poor access to health care services because of the… Read More »UNAIDS joint workshop in Kenya – advocacy training