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Harm reduction and human rights: the global response to drug-related HIV epidemics
International Harm Reduction Association, 2009It is estimated that 15.9 million people inject drugs in 158 countries and territories around the world. Despite the proven efficacy of harm reduction interventions and endorsement by the UN bodies, uptake of strategies for harm reduction is inadequate.DocumentAt what cost? HIV and human rights consequences of the global "war on drugs"
Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2009A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a 'drug-free world', there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has been reduced. This digital book from the Open Society Institute argues that instead, aggressive drug control policies have led to increased incarceration for minor offenses, human rights violations, and disease.DocumentRethinking sexuality and policy
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008What do sexuality and policy have to do with each other? This issue of id21 insights considers the policies and politics that surround sexuality asking what enables sexual contact? What sets up the dynamics of relationships? And what will the consequences be?DocumentMainstreaming HIV/AIDS in development and humanitarian programmes
Oxfam, 2004This report from ActionAid, Oxfam GB and Save the Children UK explores mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS. Mainstreaming can be defined as the process of analysing the impact that HIV/AIDS has, and will have, on all sectors including but not limited to health. It is split into two types: external and internal.DocumentHIV-TB co-infection: meeting the challenge
Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, 2007Ten per cent of individuals infected with TB develop the active disease but this is greatly increased in those whose immune systems have been weakened by HIV.DocumentTackling political barriers to end AIDS
Books for Change, 2007This policy document from ActionAid argues that the world’s political leaders are still refusing to mount an adequate response to the global HIV emergency. In 2005 world leaders made a commitment to creating universal access to HIV treatment, prevention and care by 2010, but two years later there is still no financial plan in place to achieve this.DocumentScaling-up the HIV/AIDS response: from alignment and harmonisation to mutual accountability
Overseas Development Institute, 2006This briefing paper, from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), argues that scaling-up towards universal access to treatment for HIV and AIDS depends on strengthening underlying processes upon which results are delivered.DocumentMissing the target: off target for 2010: how to avoid breaking the promise of universal access
International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, 2006This report, from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), follows on from a 2005 study that explored specific barriers and potential solutions to AIDS treatment delivery in six countries. This report finds some progress but argues that a lack of national leadership and slow implementation of reforms continues to prevent treatment delivery.Document2006 report on the global AIDS epidemic
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2006This UNAIDS report provides comprehensive data on country responses to the AIDS epidemic. It reveals that important progress has been made since the UN’s 2001 Special Session on HIV/AIDS, but that the response to HIV has varied widely between counties and regions.