Impacto de la pandemia COVID-19 sobre servicios de salud para personas que consumen drogas y están viviendo con el VIH o son vulnerables al virus. Consulta con múltiples actores para reconciliar las perspectivas de la ciencia y las comunidades

Participantes discuten temas urgentes sobre atención de salud planteados por la pandemia, incluyendo la relación entre prevención del VIH con apoyo para personas encarceladas que consumen drogas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Over 15 participants representing the community of people who use drugs and the academia with an expertise in public health, human rights, prisons and closed settings attended a two-day multi-stakeholder consultation.

Virtual consultation “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health services for people who use drugs who are living with or are vulnerable to HIV” was organized on the occasion of the 64th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs by the UNODC HIV/AIDS Section in close collaboration with the International AIDS Society (IAS), World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD).

On behalf of all co-organizers of this meetings, Ms Fariba Soltani, the Chief of HIV/AIDS Section and Global Coordinator for HIV/AIDS, underlined in her opening remarks that with a help of this meeting the organizers are aiming to put together the key lessons learned from the intersecting HIV and the COVID-19 pandemics and support member states in identifying strategic actions to be implemented at a global, regional and country level.