Women, Harm Reduction, and HIV: New IHRD Report
The report offers recommendations for policy and service design to better protect the health and rights of women who use drugs, and focuses on Eastern Europe and Asia, IHRD's areas of work.
It will be followed in 2008 by the release of assessments of women drug users' access to services in Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine.
The paper in English is available online. The Russian translation is available here.
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"We went about it with joy and good humor, if you will, we played on the fact that we were police officers, we negotiated prices by saying: How much is it for the police? Where do you come from? What is your age?"… "Most of the time, we were under the effect of alcohol, under the effect of the group. It was known about and tolerated by the hierarchy."
