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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

Sowing Change to Harvest Justice – HR25 Closing Ceremony Speech

One of the most powerful moments of HR25Bogotá came at the very end. Anton Basenko closed the HR25 conference with the kind of speech that hits hard and stays with you. His speech was raw, honest and deeply rooted in lived experience. And really, it wasn’t just a speech. It was a demand for justice. A call to centre lived… Read More »Sowing Change to Harvest Justice – HR25 Closing Ceremony Speech

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-Making for People Who Use Drugs

This report unpacking the Global Fund (GF) grant-making process is essential reading for all drug user-led communities. Learn about the various stages and how our networks can participate to ensure that our community’s critical needs and priorities are addressed and included in each final grant agreement.  There is a great deal of work to be fully involved in grant-making, from… Read More »Global Fund Grant-Making for People Who Use Drugs

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

How to Enjoy a Conference – a Harm Reduction Guide

The AWID International Forum is both a global community event and a space of radical personal transformation. A one-of-a-kind convening, the Forum brings together feminist, women’s rights, gender justice, LBTQI+ and allied movements, in all our diversity and humanity, to connect, heal and thrive. PURPOSE OF HARM REDUCTION GUIDE The purpose of the guide is to create a brief and practical harm reduction resource… Read More »How to Enjoy a Conference – a Harm Reduction Guide

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.