Madame Chair, we wish to make three important points. First, preventing HIV among people who inject drugs is impossible without a substantial increase in funding for basic harm reduction services – in particular needle and syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy. It has been estimated that globally less than 10% of what is needed is …
From NGO Statements
Statement by INPUD
This statement is given on behalf of the International Network of People who Use Drugs and is given in endorsement of the Support Don’t Punish campaign.Thirty years into the HIV epidemic we note that one in three new HIV infections outside of sub-Saharan Africa can be traced back to the use of contaminated needles by …
Mike Trace makes an NGO statement on behalf of Drugscope
I am also the chair of the International Drug Policy Consortium. I have a few comments on the operation of the system of re-scheduling of substances. In a time of constantly diversifying drug market, and rapidly developing science on risks and patterns of use of substance and their impacts, the process of scheduling decision is …
Supply reduction round table
Chief of sustainable livelihood- UNODC The concept of ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT was recognised in the 1988 convention of the UN article 3. This was reaffirmed 10 yrs later in 1998 during the UN special assembly . And the 2009 political declaration plan of action went further building on the 1988 and 1998 agenda. In 2009 member …
Statement from the International Federation of the Red Cross on Agenda Item 6
Agenda Item 6 – Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem Madam Chair, Distinguished delegates, It is with great honour and pleasure that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) takes the floor. Someone, …
Plenary – Statement from INPUD on Agenda item 6(a)
Agenda item 6(a) – UNODC and HIV prevention related to injecting drug use Thank you Madame Chair, This statement is delivered on behalf of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs, which is composed of members of one of the key affected populations in the HIV epidemic. The statement is supported by Harm Reduction …