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The Canary in the Coal Mine?: Community Lessons From the Global Fund GC7 Mid-Cycle Reprioritisation

This report is a community-led assessment of the Global Fund’s GC7 mid-cycle grant adaptation and reprioritisation. Within this report, we raise critical issues that have intensified as a result of the high political and financial uncertainty facing global health, the fate of lifesaving efforts for HIV, TB, and malaria, and the future of community-led programming and services for and by… Read More »The Canary in the Coal Mine?: Community Lessons From the Global Fund GC7 Mid-Cycle Reprioritisation

Integration Without Erasure: Brief to the Global Fund

This brief offers practical recommendations to the Global Fund on how to integrate services responsibly, with communities at the centre and rights protected. The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has declared that in the impending Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) it will accelerate the integration of HIV, TB and malaria (HTM) efforts into primary health care (PHC) and… Read More »Integration Without Erasure: Brief to the Global Fund

Learnings from the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award

This resource shares key learnings from the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award, a programme empowering women who use drugs through mentorship, leadership development and community advocacy. The Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award honours the memory of the legendary drug user advocate Jude Byrne. Established in 2022 by the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD) and the… Read More »Learnings from the Jude Byrne Emerging Female Leader Award

The Human Cost of Policy Shifts: The Fallout of US Foreign Aid Cuts on Harm Reduction Programming and People Who Use Drugs

When the US foreign aid cuts happened, our community paid the price. This report shows how. The impact of US foreign aid cuts on the health and well-being of people who use drugs has been massive and monumental. INPUD has conducted a rapid assessment to understand the depth and breadth of this impact. The findings highlight that evidence-based harm reduction… Read More »The Human Cost of Policy Shifts: The Fallout of US Foreign Aid Cuts on Harm Reduction Programming and People Who Use Drugs

Global Fund Grant Revision Process

Technical advice released to amplify the voices of drug users in Global Fund’s mid-cycle grant revision On the heels of INPUD’s June 2024 well-attended webinar of the same name, Amplifying the voices of the community in the Global Fund grant revision process advises drug user-led networks on the practice of renegotiating (or reprogramming) country-based, signed-off grants mid-cycle.  Designed as a pathway to… Read More »Global Fund Grant Revision Process

Partnership Guide for Drug User-Led Networks: The Good, Bad and Ugly

This Guide has been written to provide drug user-led networks with invaluable advice for building the sorts of partnerships that will advance our movement and make us stronger. It draws from the experience of our regional networks for making an effective audit of partnerships we have already forged and assessing new partnerships as they develop. As other key populations have… Read More »Partnership Guide for Drug User-Led Networks: The Good, Bad and Ugly

Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Engagement and why it is important for People who Use Drugs – a technical brief.

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 Cycle 7.   One of the key principles of the CCM is to engage key populations in… Read More »Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Engagement and why it is important for People who Use Drugs – a technical brief.

Hanging by a Thread: Towards a Pandemic Agreement

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 response to the recent Revised Draft of the Agreement calls for “hard, actionable long-term commitment… Read More »Hanging by a Thread: Towards a Pandemic Agreement

Communities at the Centre: A report back on the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (Windows 1 and 2)

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 community-led services. In 2022-23, the Global Fund’s Community Engagement Strategic Initiative (CE-SI) funded the  Global… Read More »Communities at the Centre: A report back on the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (Windows 1 and 2)

Harm Reduction Best and Worst Practices

July 2023 In 2016, INPUD commissioned a project that used in-depth, qualitative interviews with twenty peer drug user activists and harm reduction specialists from a range of different countries to develop a comprehensive set of seventeen key harm reduction interventions based on ‘best and worst practices’ in these areas. The result was a “Harm Reduction Best Practices Tool Kit”, intended… Read More »Harm Reduction Best and Worst Practices