Eagle’s Eye: Criminalization of IDU fuels HIV epidemic
Criminalizing policies on drugs, forces people to share syringes, inject in dangerous places, with no alcohol swab to clean, and indulge in high risk behaviours-Bobby Ramakant The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences.
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Russian Official Chairing UN Office on Drugs and Crime Knocks NGOs Out
Russia scored a major diplomatic victory. Yury Fedotov, Russia’s Ambassador to Britain, was appointed the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the head of the UN office in Vienna.
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