HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call for Action

  • A recent editorial from the Lancet asserts that people who inject drugs have been neglected in global efforts to scale up access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support.

    The editorial highlights a new document—the Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call for Action that was released at the 22nd International Harm Reduction Conference, Beirut, Lebanon in April 2011.  This declaration calls for the international community to scale-up evidence-based practices such as needle and syringe exchange programs and opioid substitution therapy for people who inject drugs.

    The Declaration calls for these efforts to be part of the new global declaration on HIV/AIDS that will be drafted at the  the UN High-Level Meeting on AIDS (June 8—10, 2011), where the past decade's progress and the future course of the global HIV response will be discussed.
     
    To read the full Lancet editorial:  DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60475-3 (Need help with DOI? See below)
     
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  • Keywords: addiction/dependence, HIV/AIDS, injecting drug use, MAT/OST/Pharmacotherapy, UN system