World’s leading science journals on drug policy and HIV/AIDS
Date: 14 July 2010
Next's week's XVIII International AIDS Conference has inspired a flurry of much anticipated scholarly debate in the world’s leading science journals about drug policy’s impact on HIV/AIDS prevention.
From the British Medical Journal: ‘Comment and research: Tackling injecting drug use: Strict laws on the criminalisation of drug use and drug users are fuelling the spread of HIV and other serious harms associated with the criminal market and should be reviewed, say experts in this series of articles, published to coincide with the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, which runs from 18 to 23 July 2010.’
This issue includes pieces by Transform’s senior policy analyst, Stephen Rolles, on ‘An alternative to the war on drugs’; Professor Tim Rhodes, Anya Sarang, Peter Vickerman, Professor Matthew Hickman, on ‘Policy resistance to harm reduction for drug users and potential effect of change’; Richard Hurley on ‘How Ukraine is tackling Europe’s worst HIV epidemic’ and an editorial on ‘Evidence based policy for illicit drugs’, among much more.
From this month’s Science Magazine: ‘In a special section the 9 July 2010 issue, Science correspondent Jon Cohen looks at the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia and Ukraine, which account for more than 90% of HIV infections in Eastern Europe. A Review article examines the biology underlying HIV persistence and potential interventions that may lead to a cure, and related commentary and research papers discuss aspects of HIV prevention and possible treatment. Science Careers profiles a Russian epidemiologist studying HIV transmission in St. Petersburg and Science Translational Medicine offers a Perspective and podcast on progress in antiretroviral therapy. Finally, a photo essay featuring the work of photographer Malcolm Linton, with commentary by Jon Cohen, as well as a podcast segment, highlight efforts to combat HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe.’
The Lancet is also due to publish the Vienna Declaration in an upcoming special issue on injecting drug use and HIV.
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