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Not only IDUs who are vulnerable to HIV or hepatitis C, right?

Submitted by ridotriawan on Thu, 03/09/2009 - 16:29

Not only IDUs who are vulnerable to HIV or hepatitis C, right? Pre-congress meeting of people who use drugs (PUD) forum, ICAAP IX Rido Triawan The pre-congress meeting of people who use drugs (PUD) forum on ICAAP IX with a theme ‘reform: towards human rights based drug policy’ was held on August 8th 2009 in Sanur, Bali. More than 120 participants from at least 11 countries in Asia Pacific attended this meeting. They were from Indonesia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Australia, Myanmar, Philippine, Malaysia, Cambodia, China, and Japan.

People affected with Hepatitus C are dying because they can't afford treatment

The 9th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) that took place on the 9^th – 13^th of August this year was interrupted by a small group of campaigners demanding access to drugs that treat HIV patients who also have been affected by Hepatitis C.

Thai drug users talk about harm reduction practices

Two Thai drug users talk about where harm reduction efforts are at in Thailand. They say that current programs tend to be too fragmented and focus on telling user what they should and shouldn't do instead of listening to the experiences and needs of the users themselves. They also say that at this stage there is not much in the way of collective activism to promote harm reduction, and it's difficult to interface with goverment and other agencies. The cycle of being arrested and put into jail and programs has the effect of further isolating users from communities.

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