http://www.drugtext.org/library/legal/eu/default.htm

http://www.harmreduction.org

http://www.erowid.org

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk (see health and well-being section)

http://www.dancesafe.org

http://unaids.org

http://who.org

http://unodc.org

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/issues/health

http://www.ihra.org

http://www.hit.org.uk

http://www.opiateaddictionrx.info

Leading medical journal Lancet published a special issue on HIV and drug use. Free registration for free online access:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/vol10no7/PIIS1473-3099(10)X7020-7

3-7 April 2011
Harm Reduction 2011: IHRA’s 22nd International Conference, Beirut, Lebanon
http://www.ihra.net/conference

23-24 May 2011
International Society for the Study of Drug Policy Annual Conference, Utrecht, 
The Netherlands
http://www.issdp.org/index.htm

1-3 June 2011
7th International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis C Coinfection, Milan, Italy
http://www.virology-education.com/

A listing of international meetings compiled by the European Opiate Addiction Treatment Association in available on their website:
http://www.europad.org/events.asp

http://www.drugtext.org/library/legal/eu/default.htm

http://www.harmreduction.org

http://www.erowid.org

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk (see health and well-being section)

http://www.dancesafe.org

http://unaids.org

http://who.org

http://unodc.org

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/issues/health

http://www.ihra.org

http://www.hit.org.uk

http://www.opiateaddictionrx.info

http://www.drugtext.org/library/legal/eu/default.htm

http://www.harmreduction.org

http://www.erowid.org

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk (see health and well-being section)

http://www.dancesafe.org

http://unaids.org

http://who.org

http://unodc.org

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/issues/health

http://www.ihra.org

http://www.hit.org.uk

http://www.opiateaddictionrx.info

The site also links to a searchable database of conference abstracts:

http://www.ihra.net/Thailand/ProgrammeAbstracts

The Canadian Harm Reduction Network and the Canadian AIDS Society collaborated on a project to identify and document effective and innovative harm reduction programmes and practices, and to disseminate this information in order to enable organisations across the country to draw on each other’s experiences and successes.

http://orders.catie.ca/product_info.php?products_id=25188

PDF version or printed copies through the ordering centre

• Human Rights Toolkit, authored by Karyn Kaplan, available online
• First set of Guidelines for Prescribing Opioid Pain Medication published in February 2009

Earlier this year, the Journal of Pain released the first set of suggested guidelines released in the U.S. to advise clinicians on the use of prescription opiates for pain management. February 2009:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090206135315.htm

The International Harm Reduction Development Programme of the Open Society Institute has released a new guidebook that we would like to share with you: Human Rights Documentation and Advocacy: A Guide for Organisations of People Who Use Drugs. Written by veteran activist Karyn Kaplan, it is available at this link:

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ihrd/articles_publications/publications/hrdoc_20090218

People who use illicit drugs face daily harassment, discrimination, and abuse—incidents that often go unreported, due to fears of reprisal and other harmful physical, mental, social, or legal consequences. Investigations into rights violations against people who use drugs or efforts to bring perpetrators to justice are rare. Often law enforcement and the society—the basic rights of people who use drugs, and blame the victim for any human rights abuses endured as a result of their drug use. Moreover, some government laws and policies directly violate the rights of people who use drugs or create the conditions for violations to occur.

Human Rights Documentation and Advocacy: A Guide for Organisations of People Who Use Drugs aims to help activists recognise human rights abuses that are systematically conducted and condoned by state and non-state actors and silently suffered by people who use drugs. The guidebook provides activists with the tools necessary to develop a human rights advocacy plan, particularly by documenting abuses against people who use drugs.

The guidebook includes the following topics:

• Starting human rights documentation
• Guidelines for documenting human rights violations committed against people who use drugs
• Guidelines for conducting interviews
• Monitoring legal systems

The guidebook is being printed in English and Russian. For copies please email Roxanne Saucier

rsaucier@sorosny.org

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ihrd

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/idu/resources/slides/index.htm

• http://www.emcdda.org
• http://www.drugusers.org
• http://www.drugtext.org/library/legal/eu/default.htm
• http://www.harmreduction.org
• http://www.drugalliance.org
• http://www.erowid.org
• http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/advice/health/drugs
• http://www.dancesafe.org
• http://unaids.org
• http://who.org
• http://unodc.org
• http://forward-thinking-on-drugs.org/review2.html
• http://www.sorosny.org/harm-reduction
• http://www.ceehrn.org
• http://www.ihra.net
• http://www.hit.org.uk
• http://www.opiateaddictionrx.info

IHRA is a leading organisation in promoting evidence based harm reduction policies and practices on a global basis for all psychoactive substances (including illicit drugs, tobacco and alcohol).

• HRA Launch Death Penalty Report
• Report on Sweden’s Human Rights Obligations – An Update
• IHRA Conference Update
• INPUD Demand Answers from the European Commission
• International Network of Drug Consumption Rooms Founded in Bilbao
• Cambodia to Open First Methadone Clinic

http://www.jaids.com

The November Supplement to JAIDS included 12 articles from the INSPIRE research trial. Unfortunately regitration is required for access to text. Abstract are available free online.

• Microsocial Environmental Influences on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Outcomes Among Active Injection Drug Users: The Role of Informal Caregiving and Household Factors.
• Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Against Main Female Partners Among HIV-Positive Male Injection Drug Users.
• Correlates of Depression Among HIV-Positive Women and Men Who Inject Drugs.
• Are Feelings of Responsibility to Limit the Sexual Transmission of HIV Associated With Safer Sex Among HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users?
• Sexual Transmission Risk Behavior Reported Among Behaviorally Bisexual HIV-Positive Injection Drug-Using Men.
• Correlates of Lending Needles/Syringes Among HIV-Seropositive Injection Drug Users.
• Factors Associated With Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Medication Errors Among HIV-Infected Injection Drug Users.
• Participants’ Descriptions of Social Support Within a Multisite Intervention for HIV-Seropositive Injection Drug Users.
• Acceptability of A-CASI by HIV-Positive IDUs in a Multisite, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Behavioral Intervention.
• Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Peer-Mentoring Intervention to Reduce HIV Transmission and Increase Access to Care and Adherence to HIV Medications Among HIV-Seropositive Injection Drug Users.
• What We Can Learn From the INSPIRE Study About Improving Prevention and Clinical Care for Injection Drug Users Living With HIV.

• http://www.emcdda.org
• http://www.drugusers.org
• http://www.drugtext.org/library/legal/eu/default.htm
• http://www.harmreduction.org
• http://www.drugalliance.org
• http://www.erowid.org
• http://www.dancesafe.org
• http://unaids.org
• http://who.org
• http://unodc.org
• http://forward-thinking-on-drugs.org/review2.html
  
• http://www.sorosny.org/harm-reduction
  
• http://www.ceehrn.org
  
• http://www.ihra.org
  
• http://www.hit.org.uk
  
• http://www.opiateaddictionrx.info

The papers report and review the findings of research from seven countries—Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia—and documents the proceedings of two meetings on alcohol and HIV risk behaviors recently held in the region.

Collectively, the articles draw attention to substance abuse in sub-Saharan Africa and its potential to contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS.

The issue, which should  inform policy and programs addressing drug- and alcohol-related HIV risks,  is available:

The issue, which should inform policy and programs addressing drug- and alcohol-related HIV risks, is available:

http://www.sahealthinfo.org/admodule/journal52006.htm

Including:

• Substance use and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: introduction to the special issue
• Heroin use in Kenya and findings from a community based outreach programme to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS
• The injecting drug use and HIV/AIDS nexus in the Republic of Mauritius
• Drug use and HIV infection in Nigeria: a review of recent findings
• HIV and substance abuse: the dual epidemics challenging Zanzibar
• Risk behaviour and HIV among drug using populations in South Africa substance abuse, HIV risk and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
• Three-country assessment of alcohol-HIV related policy and programmatic responses in Africa
• Report of first Pan African consultation on alcohol policy and its significance for the region
• Summary of the proceedings of meeting on ‘alcohol, HIV risk behaviours and transmission in Africa: developing programmes for the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)’

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