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Harm Reduction Investment in the European Union: Current funding, challenges and successes
24 April 2017
Europe is the birthplace of harm reduction, and the region where the successes of this approach in averting epidemics can be most plainly seen. It includes harm reduction champion countries, that have long invested in their national harm reduction programmes and implement a wide array of interventions. However, austerity, international donor… Read more
HRI at the Sixtieth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
10 March 2017
Harm Reduction International is participating in the 60 th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), which takes place in Vienna from 13 th to 17 th March 2017. Read our full CND briefing. This is the first full CND meeting since the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS) in June 2016. There, member… Read more
Harm Reduction Works! Sharing research on resourcing harm reduction in Europe with local and national stakeholders
18 January 2017
Harm Reduction International is calling for a redirection of funding from drug enforcement to harm reduction. But in order to identify how much funding is needed for harm reduction in any one… Read more
People who inject drugs left behind, HRI warns UNAIDS chief
25 July 2016
For the second time in a month, Harm Reduction International has written to UNAIDS , the organisation tasked with leading the global HIV response, to voice growing concern that people who use drugs are being left behind. The latest letter to the UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibe, warns that a recent decision to withhold funds pledged… Read more
Read Harm Reduction International's 2015 Annual Report
22 June 2016
Read about our work in 2015 below. To download, click the link above. Read more
HRI intervention at High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
08 June 2016
The following intervention was made by HRI Campaigns Manager Olga Szubert on Wednesday 8th June 2016 at the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York. Esteemed delegates, dear colleagues, This intervention is on behalf Harm Reduction International and a wider group of harm reduction organisations from all over the world. In September… Read more
Scottish MP Paul Monaghan Champions Harm Reduction at UNGASS
11 May 2016
This April at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS), the delegation from Harm Reduction International were privileged to host UK parliamentarian Dr Paul Monaghan MP. Paul has a… Read more
The human rights ‘win’ at the UNGASS on drugs that no one is talking about, and how we can use it
09 May 2016
By Rick Lines and Damon Barrett This post originally appeared on the University of Essex Human Rights Centre Blog . The April 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug… Read more
The potential to end AIDS among people who inject drugs: Why member states at the HIV High Level Meeting must champion harm reduction
22 April 2016
As part of a global coalition of harm reduction organisations*, Harm Reduction International makes the following calls on UN member states at the upcoming High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. We urge member states to champion harm reduction at the High Level Meeting on HIV by pushing for inclusion of the following elements: Acknowledge that the… Read more
Death Penalty for drugs the preserve of an extreme fringe of national governments
18 April 2016
The use of the death penalty to punish drug-related offences is the policy choice of an extreme fringe of national governments. This was the message of Dr Rick Lines, Harm Reduction International… Read more