Right calling all London harm reductionists (& anyway willing to travel) if you fancy helping out Release Drugs #harmreduction hub give us a shout! We’ll be talking testing advice & how we can work to keep each other safe! And you’ll get to hang out with amazing Shayla Schlossenberg

🎉Great news! #FrontlineAIDS & partners under Unitaid's hep C portfolio are ready to implement!
Our research prog in #Egypt #Kyrgyzstan & #Nigeria centres the rights of people who use drugs & will trial new technologies to reduce new infections.🙌

👉frontlineaids.org/our-programmes…

Big respect to Nottingham Health Shop NHS Needle and Syringe Programme who I visited 3 weeks ago with Magdalena Harris. The SIPP: Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision study with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has increased reach of service. Thanks to Phil Crowson for the practical #harmreduction education! Coact

Terrible statistic - 1 in 2 of lives lost to execution in 2023 due to drug control. There is ever more evidence that drug control is not compatible with human rights and should not be promoted by a division of the United Nations.

Important webinar on the contribution of low dead space syringes and needles as part of reducing the risk of Hepatitis C, HIV and other blood borne viruses among people who inject drugs. HRI INPUD MDM DAPHO Glasgow WAND.

A chance to acknowledge emerging women leaders in our community.

Jindrǐch Voboril, National Drug Coordinator 🇨🇿 speaking at International Network of People who Use Drugs #cnd67 side-event: ‘we need to start with #decriminalisation , otherwise we cannot bring people to cooperate and deliver #harmreduction services effectively & without putting #peoplewhousedruges at risk UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Really powerful and interesting speech.

This International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we are calling for the removal of racial inequalities in the #HIVresponse impacting communities, to achieve a future free from AIDS. 🌎

Together, we strive for racial equity and #justice .

#FightRacism

H.E. Ambassador Raphaël Naegeli speaking at International Network of People who Use Drugs side-event on Navigating Tensions & Contractions: addressing #humanrights challenges re. to lack or/and unequal access to #harmreduction : 🇨🇭was one of 1st countries to offer supervised #DCR & significantly reduced #hivmortality

'Decriminalization does not mean treating us as patients but citizens' Ahmed Mohamed Said africanpud bringing down the room at Drug Policy Alliance #CND67 side event on #decriminalisation as a public health and human rights approach to drug policy.

European Network of Drug Consumption Rooms // ENDCR

Stg that we didn’t believe it will happen. But it happened due to EU drugs agency and Correlation - European Harm Reduction Network

Enjoyed spending time with Wez from Scottish Drugs Forum yesterday. We recorded podcast discussing our views of harm reduction, community mobilisation and peer work.

Booking for our Insights Event closes this Wednesday!

Speakers include:
Karin Goodwin, The Ferret
Mat Southwell, EuroNPUD
James Nicholls, University of Stirling
Katy MacLeod (She/Her) & Sam Stewart, Scottish Drugs Forum
Chair: Andrew McAuley

Follow the link to register and for more info!
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Cracking #TodayAtSDF chatting all things community involvement for people who use drugs with Mat Southwell tapping into his experiences from around the world.
Will be on Drugs Uncut Scottish Drugs Forum podcast soon.
Thanks for your time and candour Mat

Involving people who use drugs in the design & development of service provision by Mat Southwell at our Insights Event today

Mat Southwell speaking on People who use drugs as powerful agents of change. Safe Inhalation Pipes Pilot in England - mobilising the community to distribute harm reduction supplies.
Scotland, we would do well to pursue this type of intervention!