Harm Reduction, HIV/AIDS, and the Human Rights Challenge to Global Drug Control Policy

摘要: The global HIV/AIDS pandemic has added to the list of harms associated with unsafe drug use and provided yet further evidence that dominant, prohibitionist approach illicit drugs is not only ineffective but also counterproductive. Embodying this approach, international control treaties cast a chill over - or in some cases, may prohibit, de jure facto implementation measures proven effective reducing spread HIV. Furthermore, paradigm engenders policies practices inhibit users' access care, treatment, support, be it for HIV disease, addiction, overdose, other health concerns. Consequently, intensified debate norms institutions regime. In part because increasingly apparent devastation injection HIV, pressure mounting policy reform at as well domestic level. AIDS upped