UNAIDS Ghana and IDPC bring together key actors to identify priorities for tackling stigma surrounding people who use drugs, including education, training, and policy reform.
The entire UN system, including CND and UNODC, must join the growing number of UN agencies and Member States documenting and denouncing the harms of the ‘war on drugs’, and calling for drug policies that centre human rights.
World AIDS Day 2023 will emphasise the importance of community in ending AIDS, the need to centre communities in planning and break down barriers to leadership.
Following the release of the UNAIDS report titled 'The path that ends AIDS', this article underscores how ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic necessitates drug decriminalisation.
The ICJ, with UNAIDS and the OHCHR, outline a human rights-based approach to laws criminalising conduct in relation to sex, drug use, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, homelessness and poverty.