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Anton Basenko at AIDS2024 Opening Session
Anton Basenko, Chair of INPUD’s Board of Governance representing the Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs (ENPUD) and Board Member of Eurasian Key Populations Coalition, delivered the 10 minute Closing Address of AIDS2024 on 27 July 2024. Anton is a Ukrainian national currently living in Brussels and has a Master’s degree in international economy. At the IAS conference, he spoke with energy and insight as a person with lived experience of drug use, incarceration, various treatment modes including opioid pharmacotherapy, HIV and hepatitis C. The resounding applause continued long after he had left the stage. QR codes included at the end of this video link to the full Closing Session and to his written speech notes.
Side Event at the 67th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Tensions and Contradictions: Addressing human rights challenges related to the lack of, and the unequal access to, treatment and harm reduction.

This side event was held during the 67th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna on 20 March 2024 and was part of a series of a programme of CND side events supported by OHCHR concerning the 2023 report on human rights in drug policy

00:00 JUDY CHANG | INPUD
1:50 RAPHAEL NAEGELI | H.E. Ambassador, Switzerland
5:32 MONICA CIUPAGEA | UNODC
17:40 ANGELA MCBRIDE | SANPUD
24:56 JINDRICH VOBORIL | National Drug Policy Coordinator, Czech Republic
34:19 PALANI NARAYANAN | Malaysian AIDS Foundation
42:24 PROF. ALAN MILLER | National Mission on Drugs, Scotland
49:31 BOYAN KONSTANTINOV | UNDP
55:50 CHRISTINA MCKELVIE | MSP Appointed Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy

Organized by the International Network of People who Use Drugs with the support of Czechia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Portugal, Switzerland, Uruguay, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Development Programme, the African Network of People who Use Drugs, AIDSFONDS, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the European Network of People who Use Drugs, Harm Reduction International, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Latin American Network of People who Use Drugs the Middle East and North African Network of People who Use Drugs, the Network of Asian People who Use Drugs, the Open Society Foundations, the South African Network of People who Use Drugs, the Women and Harm Reduction International Network and Youth RISE.
Judy Chang at the Commission on Narcotic Drug’s Thematic Discussion session
INPUD Executive Director Judy Change speaking at the CND’s Thematic Discussion session: High transmission rate of HIV, HCV & other blood borne diseases associated with drug use.
International Drug Users Day 2023
On International Drug User’s Day 2023, we spotlight voices from the drug users rights movement around the world to define what peer leadership is and what it means to them. Today join us in celebrating and amplifying the voices of peer leaders from around the world!
Drug Policy and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Overturning decades of neglect

Aditia Taslim, Advocacy Officer for INPUD did a presentation at the Side event is organized by the UNODC HIV/AIDS Section with the support of Belgium, Brazil, Czechia, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, and the International Network of People who Use Drugs.

THE BLACK INITIATIVE: Fighting Brazil’s Racist War on Drugs
The Black Initiative for a New Drug Policy (INNPD) is launching a short documentary that shows how the war on drugs is an instrument of racism, which incites violence and hinders democratic development in Brazil.