Harm Reduction 2008: IHRA’s 19th International Conference
Barcelona, Spain
May 11, 2008
This annual international harm reduction conference, for which OSI will offer a number of scholarships, has become the main meeting point for all those interested in reducing drug-related harm around the world.  more

Moscow AIDS Conference Blocks Drug Treatment Patients, Groups Charge
Press Release
February 14, 2008
In advance of an AIDS conference in Moscow, nearly 90 health and human rights groups from 27 countries petitioned a top health official to allow drug treatment patients to enter Russia with their medications.  more

Experts Warn That Police Abuse Is Fueling HIV Epidemic Among Injecting Drug Users
Press Release
October 24, 2007
Police abuse of drug users is undermining HIV prevention and treatment efforts in Asia and Eastern Europe, experts warned after the opening of an OSI-sponsored conference to discuss the role of law enforcement in HIV prevention.  more

Police, Harm Reduction, and HIV
April 2008
This fact sheet describes how police practices help fuel HIV epidemics by driving drug users away from lifesaving care while doing little to stem drug use, and discusses how police and health providers can work together to save lives. more

Barriers to Access: Medication-Assisted Treatment and Injection-Driven HIV Epidemics
April 2008
Life-saving, medication-assisted addiction treatment remains largely inaccessible in developing and transitional countries with injection-driven HIV epidemics, as this OSI fact sheet documents. more