Africa

Officials are using public health language as a cover for punitive drug policy approaches (Source: Wikimedia/Wikimedia).

1 December 2016

South Africa on track to legalise medical cannabis (Source: Pixabay/Wikimedia)

29 November 2016

Members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy are aguing for a new approach to the decriminalisation of low-level drug offences.

21 November 2016

The report's author, Katie Stone, speaking at its official launch in London

16 November 2016

Ghana plans to stop imprisoning people for drug use and possession (Source: Wikimedia)

11 November 2016

Step Up is the only harm reduction project in Cape Town, South Africa that provides outreach services for people who use drugs.

17 August 2016

For the first time in 10 years, the HIV incidence rate among people who inject drugs has increased in Mauritius (Source: Pixabay/Pixabay)

10 August 2016

The criminalisation of people who use drugs in Kenya is hindering the fight against HIV. Source: Pixbay/Pixbay

20 July 2016

19 July 2016

A visit by UNAIDS to Dakar's first integrated drug treatment center in 2015. Source: UNAIDS

1 March 2016

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