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Policy and advocacy

A number of useful documents have been developed to support planning and programming as well as advocacy for the implementation of the comprehensive harm reduction package.

Policy briefs

• Policy guidelines for collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting and other drug users
  2008
• Effectiveness of drug dependence treatment in preventing HIV among injecting drug users
  2005
• Policy and programming guide for HIV/AIDS prevention and care among injecting drug users
  2005
• Antiretroviral therapy and injecting drug users
  2005
• Provision of sterile injecting equipment to reduce HIV transmission
  2004
• Effectiveness of community-based outreach in preventing HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users
  2004
• Interventions to address HIV in prisons: Reduction of HIV transmission in prisons
  2004

Advocacy

• Joint statement : Compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centres
  pdf, 463kb
• HIV prevention in generalized epidemics: Optimal interventions for Global Fund applications
  2012
• UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, hands out methadone to patients in Cambodia
  2010
• Advocacy guide: HIV/AIDS prevention among injecting drug users
  2004

Guidelines

• Technical guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users, 2012 revision
  2012
• Technical guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users
  2009
• Technical Guide to Rapid Assessment and Response (TG-RAR)
  2003
• Rapid assessment and response guide on injecting drug use
  1998

Strategy

• A strategy to halt and reverse the HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs in Asia and the Pacific 2010-2015
  2010
• Biregional strategy for harm reduction 2005-2009. HIV and injecting drug use
  2005

Regional experience

• Good practices in Asia : Effective paradigm shifts towards an improved national response to drugs and HIV/AIDS
  2011
• Good practice in Asia: targeted HIV prevention for IDU and sex workers
  2010
• Report on people who inject drugs in the South-East Asia Region
  2010
• Assessment of compulsory treatment of people who use drugs in Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Viet Nam: An application of selected human rights principles
  2009
• The integration of harm reduction Into abstinence-based therapeutic communities: a case study of 'We Help Ourselves', Australia
  2006
• HIV/AIDS in Europe. Moving from death sentence to chronic disease management
  2005
• Best practice in HIV/AIDS prevention and care for injecting drug abusers: the Triangular Clinic in Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran
  2004

Other

• Financial resources required to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support - Guidance on cost estimates for IDU interventions
  pdf, 281kb
  2007

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