24th International Harm Reduction Conference 2015

The 24th International Harm Reduction Conference (IHRC 2015) took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-21 October 2015. NAM is the official scientific reporter.

Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Strategies for hepatitis C ‘treatment as prevention’ must address the concerns of people who inject drugs

28 October 2015

Retention & linkage to care

Peer workers improve drug users’ engagement with HIV care in Ukraine

21 October 2015

Harm reduction

Community-based drug projects provide an alternative to compulsory detention in Asia

27 October 2015

Drug policy & policing

Harm reduction conference calls for political leadership to reform drugs policy

27 October 2015

Harm reduction

Needle and syringe exchanges need to adapt to meet the needs of people who inject steroids and image-enhancing drugs

22 October 2015

Harm reduction

Why is injecting equipment re-used? Drug users do their own research to find out

21 October 2015

Finance & funding

Retreat of international donors and neglect of national governments threatens harm reduction services

20 October 2015

Harm reduction

Opioid substitution therapy, especially in combination with needle exchange, reduces transmission of hepatitis C

19 October 2015

Editors’ picks from other sources

Harm reduction

The case for a harm reduction decade

HIV-related deaths and new HIV infections among people who inject drugs could be almost entirely eliminated by 2030 with just a tiny shift in global drug control spending. The "Case for a Harm Reduction Decade" report shows that the redirection of just 7.5% of current drug control spending by 2020 would achieve a 94% cut in new HIV infections among people who use drugs by 2030, and a 93% drop in HIV-related deaths. Click www.harmreductiondecade.org to visit the Harm Reduction Decade website and to sign the Kuala Lumpur declaration.

Harm Reduction International

16 Mar 16

Drug policy & policing

The truth behind the UNODC's leaked decriminalisation paper

The tensions between the health and human rights pragmatists of other United Nations agencies and the anti-reform prohibitionist instincts of the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) old-school have been increasingly evident, and the same tensions have also been playing out within the UNODC, with the more forward-looking HIV team attempting to drag a lumbering drug-war monolith into the modern world.

Transform

22 Oct 15

Harm reduction

How methadone is promoting ART adherence for drug users in Ukraine

Globally, it is estimated that 1.65 million people who inject drugs are living with HIV*. Yet access to antiretroviral therapy remains a major problem. At the 24th International Harm Reduction Conference coming up in Malaysia in October, innovative ways in which harm reduction programmes are being shaped to help drug users access the antiretroviral treatment they need will be presented.

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

23 Sep 15

24th International Harm Reduction Conference 2015

Strategies for hepatitis C ‘treatment as prevention’ must address the concerns of people who inject drugs

Peer workers improve drug users’ engagement with HIV care in Ukraine

Community-based drug projects provide an alternative to compulsory detention in Asia

Harm reduction conference calls for political leadership to reform drugs policy

Needle and syringe exchanges need to adapt to meet the needs of people who inject steroids and image-enhancing drugs

Why is injecting equipment re-used? Drug users do their own research to find out

Retreat of international donors and neglect of national governments threatens harm reduction services

Opioid substitution therapy, especially in combination with needle exchange, reduces transmission of hepatitis C

The case for a harm reduction decade

Toward a Harm Reduction Decade

UN drugs office urged to publish leaked paper backing decriminalisation

The truth behind the UNODC's leaked decriminalisation paper

United Nations denies 'global drug decriminalisation' claim by Sir Richard Branson

How methadone is promoting ART adherence for drug users in Ukraine