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News and information about HIV in injecting drug users. The criminalisation of drug use and the marginalisation of drug users contribute to vulnerability to HIV.

Harm reduction

Maintenance prescribing saves lives of English heroin addicts

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Drug & Alcohol Findings
30 October 2016
Harm reduction

Researchers find people who inject drugs would be willing to switch to safer equipment

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National Institute for Health Research
26 October 2016
Drug policy & policing

Decriminalization is a public health strategy

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Treatment Action Group
18 October 2016
Harm reduction

France's first drug room for addicts to inject opens in Paris

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BBC Health
12 October 2016
People who inject drugs

Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings

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The Guardian
4 October 2016
Harm reduction

Naloxone: 'Heroin antidote saved my life'

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BBC
3 October 2016
Drug policy & policing

Philippines' war on drugs affecting fight against HIV

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Deutsche Welle
20 September 2016
Human rights

How three drug users took on the might of the Russian state

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The Guardian
15 September 2016
People who inject drugs

Deaths from heroin overdoses are spiralling in Britain. Many are preventable.

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The Economist
12 September 2016
People who inject drugs

New research supports hep C treatment for people who use drugs

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
7 September 2016
Harm reduction

Is harm reduction the primary goal, or acceptable only in the service of eliminating drug use?

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Drink & Drug News
6 September 2016
People who inject drugs

Safe injection clinic says 90% of clients' heroin tested positive for fentanyl

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The Guardian
6 September 2016
Drug policy & policing

The Injustice Of Lifetime Food Stamp Bans

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Huffington Post
30 August 2016
Harm reduction

Hysteria about drugs and harm minimisation. It's always the same old story

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The Guardian
23 August 2016
Harm reduction

A Look Inside Cape Town’s Only Harm Reduction Project

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Talking Drugs
18 August 2016
Hepatitis C treatment

New research supports the removal of drug use as a restriction to hepatitis C treatment

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EurekAlert
15 August 2016
Religion & faith

How Majority Muslim Countries Are Handling HIV Infections

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VICE
2 August 2016
Access to healthcare

AIDS 2016 focuses on impact of legal and policy barriers to HIV services for groups at greatest risk of infection

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AIDS 2016
18 July 2016
Prisoners

The Lancet: Mass imprisonment of drug users driving global epidemics of HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis

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EurekAlert
17 July 2016
Harm reduction

The scourge of heroin and opioid deaths still doesn’t match AIDS at its worst

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Politifact
11 July 2016
Hepatitis C treatment

'It's Destroyed People's Lives': The Shocking Rise in Hepatitis C-Related Deaths

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VICE
22 June 2016
Hepatitis C treatment

Hepatitis C: Treating People Who Inject Drugs

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HCV Next
21 June 2016
Drug policy & policing

Leading public health bodies call for decriminalisation of drugs

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The Guardian
16 June 2016
Harm reduction

Motivational harm-reduction more effective than education among at-risk injectors

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Drug & Alcohol Findings
14 June 2016