Mujeres que usan drogas, reducción de daños y VIH

Este informe analiza las políticas, leyes y prácticas que socavan los derechos de las mujeres que usan drogas.

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This issue brief about HIV, harm reduction and the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women who use drugs is part of a series of briefing papers, commissioned by the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA), and is designed to provide up-to-date information around key issues concerning HIV prevention, treatment and care related to women and girls.

The brief seeks to bring attention to policies, laws and practices that undermine the rights of women who use drugs, and to promote the realisation of their human rights in terms of an e#ective harm reduction response to HIV. !e brief also outlines some of the challenges speci"c to protecting women who use drugs from HIV transmission that need to be considered when designing interventions, as well as the principles that must be upheld when striving to meet the goal set in the declaration, and lists recommended actions for moving forward from the programmatic level, through to national policies and global responses.

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