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INPUD, along with HIV Legal Network, UNAIDS and the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, are excited to be hosting a virtual side event at the 64th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on Monday, 12 April 2021 at 14:00 CEST.  ‘We Are the Evidence’: Community-Led Responses on Decriminalisation, Harm Reduction and COVID-19 will be a discussion on why and how people who use drugs should be at the centre of advancing policy towards decriminalisation… Read More »‘We are the Evidence’ – Community-led Responses on Decriminalisation, COVID-19 and Harm Reduction

March 2014 A Position Paper from the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) and the International Network of Women who Use Drugs (INWUD). Download the full statement here. In some countries, such as Russia and Ukraine, pregnant women who use illicit drugs have been coerced by health providers to either terminate their pregnancies or relinquish their children to the… Read More »Illicit Drug Use in Pregnancy: An Appropriate Response

15 April, 2019 Download this full statement here. INPUD is deeply saddened by the passing of our member, friend, previous Director on our Board, our representative, and our facilitator, Dean Lewis. Dean was determined to live his life with grace and fire, and in this he succeeded. He was relentlessly and consistently thoughtful and was as generous to people as… Read More »Dean Lewis – Remembering a Friend

24 July, 2019 Download this statement here. The Asian Network of People who Use Drugs and the International Network of People who Use Drugs strongly condemn recent raids on the offices and homes of Anand Grover and Indira Jaising of the Lawyers Collective, India. These attacks are emblematic of a broader trend of intimidation, harassment and abuse of power against… Read More »Joint Statement Condemning recent raids on the offices and homes of Anand Grover and Indira Jaising

This is the first community-driven evaluation of the outcomes of Portugal’s decriminalisation of people who use drugs. Introduced in 2001, Portugal’s model of decriminalisation has been hugely influential and is frequently referred to as an example of legislative reform that has improved public health, social order, and the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs. This document builds on… Read More »Is Decriminalisation Enough? Drug User Community Voices from Portugal

5 FEBRUARY, 2021 Read the full report here.  From the beginning, people who use drugs have been central to the development and delivery of HIV and harm reduction programmes. Communities, advocates, service providers and health professionals have all called for increasing the meaningful involvement of people who use drugs within HIV and harm reduction programmes, and research focused on high-income… Read More »Peer driven or driven peers? A rapid review of peer involvement of people who use drugs in HIV and harm reduction services in low‑ and middle‑income countries

22 OCTOBER, 2020 Смотрите здесь для русского. In January of 2019 Kyrgyzstan, already facing declining donor funding for the HIV response, had the services of their three community-led, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) put to an end due to the cease of funding from the country’s Global Fund (GF) programme. This sudden change left the community of the most marginalised people who inject drugs and people… Read More »Out in the cold: Community-led services abandoned as donor funding declines in Kyrgyzstan

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

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

AUGUST 2016 Prior to and since his election this year, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly and vehemently called for police and the general public to kill people suspected of using or dealing drugs.  He has called for and endorsed extrajudicial killings. Hundreds of people have been extrajudicially murdered since Duterte took office as president. President Duterte has suspended the… Read More »Response to the UNODC Statement on the killings in the Philippines