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Surviving and Thriving: Lessons in Successful Advocacy from Drug User-Led Networks

1 April 2022 Surviving and Thriving: Lessons in Successful Advocacy from Drug-User Led Networks showcases what local and regional drug user-led networks can do when they have adequate resources through accessible and sustainable donor funding. The networks featured in these case studies took on projects that confront the most pressing issues of our time, such as COVID-19, government crackdowns on… Read More »Surviving and Thriving: Lessons in Successful Advocacy from Drug User-Led Networks

‘We are the Evidence’ – Community-led Responses on Decriminalisation, COVID-19 and Harm Reduction

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13 April, 2021 ‘We Are the Evidence’: Community-Led Responses on Decriminalisation, Harm Reduction and COVID-19 is a discussion on why and how people who use drugs should be at the centre of advancing policy towards decriminalisation of drugs. INPUD, along with HIV Legal Network, UNAIDS and the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, presented this virtual side event at… Read More »‘We are the Evidence’ – Community-led Responses on Decriminalisation, COVID-19 and Harm Reduction

INPUD Peer Technical Support Forum: Global Fund County Coordinating Mechanism (Video)

22 September, 2021 This forum was held to familiarise networks and communities of people who use drugs with the concept of Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) evolution, what value it brings to the community and how peers can get more engaged in Global Fund related processes when advocating for their priorities. Speakers include peers, Global Fund Secretariat staff from… Read More »INPUD Peer Technical Support Forum: Global Fund County Coordinating Mechanism (Video)

Peers in the Pandemic: How Networks of People who Use Drugs Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Video)

6 October, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life as we know it, forcing us to adjust to new realities under lockdown conditions that all too often left people who use drugs behind and at increased risk of harm as many of the health services we have come to rely on were closed, defunded or made inaccessible. Peers faced an increased… Read More »Peers in the Pandemic: How Networks of People who Use Drugs Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Video)

Community Guide: Sex Workers who Use Drugs

22 October, 2015 Pусский | Español | Français | 简体中文 This Community Guide summarises the Sex Workers Who Use Drugs: Ensuring a Joint Approach briefing paper by INPUD and NSWP. The community guide highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs. It provides an overview of the ways in which sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation and associated police harassment,… Read More »Community Guide: Sex Workers who Use Drugs

METZINERES: Environments of Shelter for Womxn who Use Drugs Surviving Violence (Video)

8 November, 2021 METZINERES is a peer-led organisation that organises communities of womxn who use drugs in Barcelona to provide safe environments for survivors of violence. They operate shelters to sleep in and wash clothes and safer spaces for consuming drugs, without the risk of infections and overdose deaths. They also offer psychosocial support for those who struggle with homelessness,… Read More »METZINERES: Environments of Shelter for Womxn who Use Drugs Surviving Violence (Video)

Fundraising Training: Fundraising through Private Individual Donations (Video)

15 December, 2021 In the first of three scheduled trainings for INPUD members Grigory Svedlin, head of the nonproft “Nochlezhka”, leads an interactive workshop on fundraising through private individual donations. The discussion highlights financial planning, crowdfunding, campaigns and donation boxes as effective ways for networks of people who use drugs to raise money for our work and communities.

Sex Workers who Use Drugs: Ensuring a joint approach

18 October, 2015 Pусский | Español | Français | 简体中文 This joint briefing paper by NSWP and INPUD highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs, as a community that spans two key populations. This document provides an overview of some of the most endemic and substantive ways in which sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation and associated… Read More »Sex Workers who Use Drugs: Ensuring a joint approach

Out in the cold: Community-led services abandoned as donor funding declines in Kyrgyzstan

4 November, 2020 Pусский In January of 2019, the landscape of support for many people living with or affected by HIV in Kyrgyzstan had changed radically. The middle-income country, 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… Read More »Out in the cold: Community-led services abandoned as donor funding declines in Kyrgyzstan

Extended-Release Opioid Agonist Products: A Community Position Statement

4 December, 2019 In recent years, services and options for people with opiate dependence have expanded to include a range of prolonged-release buprenorphine formulations. Although these new options can represent the right solution for some individuals, a significant risk of a coercive use exists, especially in countries where people who use drugs are highly criminalised and discriminated against. In such… Read More »Extended-Release Opioid Agonist Products: A Community Position Statement