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How People who Use Drugs Can Influence Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8)

This guide is a community-led resource to support the meaningful engagement of people who use drugs in Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (2026-2028) processes. Within this guide, we address the critical challenges and opportunities facing people who use drugs as the Global Fund enters Grant Cycle 8 amidst unprecedented funding constraints, shifting donor priorities, and mounting pressure for integration. The… Read More »How People who Use Drugs Can Influence Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8)

From Frontline Voices to Published Evidence: How INPUD’s Rapid Assessment Shaped Research on PEPFAR Funding Cuts

By Isaac Olushola Ogunkola – Global Fund Programme Manager | April 2026 In March 2025, with harm reduction services collapsing across the globe in the wake of the U.S. foreign aid freeze, INPUD launched a 12-day rapid assessment survey to capture what was happening on the ground. We heard from 101 organisations and networks across 45 countries – the vast… Read More »From Frontline Voices to Published Evidence: How INPUD’s Rapid Assessment Shaped Research on PEPFAR Funding Cuts

Position Paper: Strengthening Key Populations’ Role in Global Health Initiatives

A new position paper by Global Action for Trans Equality, Global Network of Sex Work Projects, International Network of People who Use Drugs, and MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights calls for key population communities to be placed at the centre of the global HIV response. This position paper outlines the critical role that key population communities… Read More »Position Paper: Strengthening Key Populations’ Role in Global Health Initiatives

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.