On International Drug Users Day, we call for recognition and celebration of our diverse community. On this day, we are all about drug user pride! Every year on November 1st, International Drug Users Day, people who use drugs all over the world celebrate our history and affirm our rights. INPUD was formally launched on International Drug Users Day in 2008… Read More »International Drug Users Day: How to Engage in #IDUD24
Written by Leah McLeod 1 November 2024 will mark our 16th International Drug Users Day, #IDUD24. And how far we have come in addressing our massive agenda, things like preventing & treating blood borne viruses; tackling stigma & discrimination; reducing fatalities from overdose; expanding harm reduction; and demanding drug law reform. And yet, despite this fistful of harm being so… Read More »International Drug Users Day 2024
July 2024 Congratulations to all involved in INPUD’s Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use Drugs: researchers, the 27 participants representing our global network, scribes, authors of the report. Earlier in the year, this small, representative group of people who use drugs harnessed their lived experience, regional… Read More »Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use Drugs
The INPUD Board Chair powerfully represented drug users at AIDS2024 Closing 27 July, rousing the audience to get loud for drug law reform.
26 July 2024 The Hon Helen Clark former PM of New Zealand & Chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and musician Sir Elton John joined forces this week to write an opinion piece to coincide with the AIDS2024 Conference. For the 25th anniversary of this important IAS event, they combined the considerable weight of their shared reputations to… Read More »Stop prohibition to stop HIV AIDS says Clark, John
“Everything collapses in front of your eyes. Yet you are still here, standing strong. You have food to eat and a bed to sleep. It is a miracle”. For Ukraine, 2022 has been a year about fighting back against the full-scale invasion by Russia launched on February 24th, 2022. Despite the catastrophic consequences of this war, the community has led… Read More »The Will to Live and to Win: people who use drugs fighting for their lives in Ukraine.
Friday 17 March: Vienna Join INPUD (International Network of People Who Use Drugs) for the launch of our ground-breaking report, “Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Voices of People who use Drugs”. This report gives a global perspective on the experiences of people who use drugs from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and provides evidence-based recommendations to inform the drafting… Read More »How People Who Use Drugs Are Helping Shape the Pandemic Treaty
Friday – 17 March, Vienna: INPUD https://inpud.net/ will launch a ground-breaking report titled “Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Voices of People who use Drugs” at the 66th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND66). The report highlights, our experiences as people who use drugs from different regions, including Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Our members speak about how… Read More »Witnesses to the Pandemic: How People Who Use Drugs are Shaping the Pandemic Treaty
Below are the submissions from women around the world for the INWUD Narcofeminism Blog Competition. Natalie Jacobs https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Natalie-Jacobs-My-life-journey-as-a-woman-who-use-drugs-.pdf Charne Roberts https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Charne-Roberts-The-Great-Escape-.pdf Kimmi de Prado https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Kimmi-del-Prado-Dont-Panic-Were-All-Just-Looking-For-Something-To-Fill-the-Void.pdf Marina Andrea https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Magic-green-medicine-Marina-Andrea-1.pdf Rita https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MY-CASE-STORY-rita.pdf Sania Zehra https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Accepting-vulnerabilities-–-breaking-free-of-emulated-standards-that-demarcate-us-Sania-Zehra.pdf Anonymous https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Dont-Panic-Were-All-Just-Looking-For-Something-To-Fill-the-Void-Copy.pdf Anonymous https://inpud.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/INWUD-submission-on-Narcofeminism-anonymous-1.pdf
People who use drugs must be involved and influence decisions made at each stage of the grant life cycle. Too often people who use drugs are silenced in Global Fund processes. To ensure that our voices are listened to and heard, and our needs met, INPUD has prepared a short guide on how people who use drugs can plan their… Read More »How to plan your engagement – Global Fund Grant Cycle 7