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Searching with a thematic focus on HIV and AIDS transmission, prevention and testing, HIV and AIDS, Key populations, HIV and AIDS vulnerable groups, Injecting drug users

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    Setting the scene: assessing and planning with harm reduction partners

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2013
    Community Action on Harm Reduction (CAHR) is an project spanning China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia that aims to expand coverage to more than 230,000 people who inject drugs, their partners and children, with a wide range of services (HIV prevention, treatment and care, sexual and reproductive health and other services) by 2014.
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    Prevention of HIV infection for people who inject drugs: why individual, structural, and combination approaches are needed

    The Lancet, 2010
    HIV can spread rapidly between people who inject drugs (through injections and sexual transmission), and potentially the virus can pass to the wider community (by sexual transmission). The authors of this article: summarise evidence on the effectiveness of individual-level approaches to prevention of HIV infection; review global and regional coverage of opioid substitution treatment,
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    Violence and exposure to HIV among sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

    USA Agency for International Development, 2006
    As one of the few countries that have managed to check the spread of HIV, Cambodia is widely praised as a success story. This success is often attributed to the country's 100% condom programme. However, the evidence in this report from USAID reveals that the national HIV/AIDS program has failed to protect the rights of sex workers as women and as citizens.
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    World Drug Report 2009

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009
    This annual report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) analyses market trends, and compiles detailed statistics on illicit drug markets for cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, and opiates among others.
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    Legislating for health and human rights: model law on drug use and HIV/AIDS

    Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2009
    Many countries with injection-driven HIV and AIDS epidemics continue to emphasise criminal enforcement of drug laws over public health approaches, thereby missing or even hindering effective responses to HIV and AIDS.
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    UN drug summit: undo a decade of neglect

    Human Rights Watch, 2009
    UN drug control agencies have paid little attention to whether international drug control efforts are consistent with human rights protections, or to the effect of drug control policies on fundamental human rights. This webpage provides an overview of Human Rights Watch documentation of human rights abuses linked to drug enforcement laws, policies, and practices over the last decade.
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    IDPC advocacy note: the political declaration - a missed opportunity

    International Drug Policy Consortium, 2009
    A high level review has recently taken place of the progress against objectives set at the General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 1998, namely, to eradicate or significantly reduce the production of, and demand for, the non-medical use of controlled drugs.
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    Harm reduction and human rights: the global response to drug-related HIV epidemics

    International Harm Reduction Association, 2009
    It 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.
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    At what cost? HIV and human rights consequences of the global "war on drugs"

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2009
    A 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.
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    Legislating for health and human rights: model law on drug use and HIV/AIDS – module 5: prisons

    Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2006
    UNAIDS suggests that approximately 30 percent of new HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa are due to contaminated injection equipment. This model-law resource by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is the fifth module of a larger eight module law resource.

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