 Published in May 2008, this major report – The Global State of Harm Reduction 2008: Mapping the Response to Drug-Related HIV and Hepatitis C Epidemics – provides a region-by-region assessment of drug-related HIV and hepatitis C epidemics, as well as the extent of harm reduction policy and programmatic responses from multilateral agencies, government and civil society. 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 long-term collaboration between IHRA’s HR2 (harm reduction and human rights) team and harm reduction networks, researchers, and organisations of people who use drugs around the world to allow IHRA to gather the most reliable data to reflect the situation in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The report will enable IHRA to engage with and work alongside a wide range of partners around the world – such as regional harm reduction networks, international human rights organisations and HIV and drug policy organisations – to advocate and lobby for harm reduction.
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 Click here to view the complete report (Warning: Large File) [PDF:6MB]
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Alternatively, the report can be downloaded in sections:
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Section 1 provides a global overview of harm reduction policy and programming in response to HIV and HCV epidemics.
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Click here to view Section 1 [PDF:3.96MB]
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Section 2 contains nine regional overviews which examine the situation and harm reduction response in further depth in Asia, Eurasia, Western Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, Oceania, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Click here to view Section 2 [PDF:1.77MB]
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Asia [PDF:781KB]
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Eurasia [PDF:731KB]
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Western Europe [PDF:691KB]
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Caribbean [PDF:687KB]
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Latin America [PDF:663KB]
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North America [PDF:696KB]
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Oceania [PDF:670KB]
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Middle East and North Africa [PDF:656KB]
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Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF:742KB]
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Section 3 explores issues that are key to assessing the global state of harm reduction – including human rights, non-injecting drug use and civil society engagement in multilateral processes.
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Click here to view Section 3 [PDF:1.47MB]
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As well as the report, IHRA will be launching a web-based Global State of Harm Reduction reference tool in the coming months, which will be periodically updated.
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Further Reading
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