people who use drugs

Ending Inequalities for People who Use Drugs: How the Global HIV Response can Transform Drug Policy

Video and audio recordings

This side event for the 65th Commission on Narcotic Drugs was originally presented on 14 March, 2022. Organised by INPUD, it was co-sponsored by Médecins du Monde, UNAIDS, UNODC HIV/AIDS Section, the Netherlands and Australia. In 2021...

The impact of the pandemic on people who use drugs and treatment services: what we can learn from research

1 March 2022

Online

This webinar will explore the impact of the pandemic on people who use drugs, and will draw on research conducted during this unique period in time, and what we can learn from it

Research led by people who use drugs: centering the expertise of lived experience

Scientific article

20 September 2021

Despite a long history of successful, community-led harm reduction programs and rising health inequalities suffered by PWUD, research collaborations between PWUD and researchers remain generally ignored. PWUDs are crucial in identifying...

The impact of COVID-19 on drug use and harm reduction programming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: a regional consultation of stakeholders and people who use drugs

Scientific article

13 July 2021

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was classified a pandemic on March 11, 2020, with early reports of the disease occurring in the Middle East and North African (MENA) area. On January 2021, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Regional...

HIV/HCV prevalence and risk behavior among NPS users are a growing public health burden

News

On April 27, 2021, UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia held a training seminar for specialists of the republican and regional levels responsible for drug dependence treatment and HIV prevention services in the Republic of Uzbekistan. The...

Human Rights and People Who Use Drugs in the Mediterranean Region

Book

This publication gives a first overview of the human rights situation of people who use drugs in 17 MedNET countries. MedNET is the Mediterranean network for co-operation on drugs and addictions of the Pompidou Group. Among the topics...

COVID-19 and People Who Use Drugs

Book

26 March 2020

The situation regarding responses to the COVID-19 outbreak is rapidly evolving. People who use drugs face the same risks as those of the general population and therefore need to be aware of the appropriate advice to reduce their risk of...

Reducing Ill-Health, Hospitalisation & Death among People who Use Drugs

5 March 2020

Glasgow

About this Event

Join Drug Research Network Scotland for a half-day seminar with Dan Lewer (Public Health Registrar and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at University College London).