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IHRA Launches "The Global State of HArm Reduction 2010: Key Issues for Bradening the Response" Report
Published in April 2010 – The Global State of Harm Reduction 2010: Key Issues for Broadening the Response – is the second major report in the series. It provides a region-by-region update of key developments in harm reduction since the first Global Report was released in 2008. It also explores several issues key to the response to drug-related harms worldwide, including increasing access to harm reduction in prisons and other places of detention, reaching people who use drugs with diagnosis, treatment and care for viral hepatitis and tuberculosis, preventing overdose-related mortality among people who use drugs, preventing and treating injecting-related bacterial infections, expanding the response to harms related to amphetamine use and addressing the current shortage of funds for harm reduction worldwide.
It is designed to be an advocacy and reference tool for a wide range of audiences, including international donor organisations, multilateral and bilateral agencies, non-governmental and community-based organisations, including organisations and groups of people who use drugs, researchers and the media.
The report is the result of collaboration between IHRA’s Public Health Research and Policy programme and harm reduction networks, researchers, and organisations of people who use drugs, whose input is essential to reflecting the situation around the world. In addition, chapters on key issues for harm reduction were contributed by experts from civil society, academia and multilateral agencies.
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INHRN to become a Registered Organisation.
In April 2009, during the 20th IHRA Conference in Bangkok, and , more recently, in Liverpool 2010, a small group of nurses from Europe, Australasia, North America, South America and Africa, attending both conferences met to review the current state of our membership organisation
and the steps needed to take INHRN forward.
It was decided that some work around the organisation of our Network was needed, in particular, the writing up of our Constitution and formalised a legal registration.
The work is underway, however we will need your support. If you feel like you can support us in the development of our Constitution, or you want to be involved with us, please write to us at coordinator@inhrn.net , and we will contact you shortly.