Public Health Program

Moscow AIDS Conference Blocks Drug Treatment Patients, Groups Charge
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

About the Public Health Program
The OSI Public Health Program works with civil society organizations to promote the participation and interests of socially marginalized groups in public health policy and foster greater government accountability and transparency through civil society monitoring and advocacy. more

OSI Welcomes UN Secretary-General’s Comments on HIV Prevention and Treatment for Stigmatized Groups
April 9, 2008
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on March 26 for increased health and human rights protections for people living with HIV, sex workers, men who have sex with men, and young people who inject drugs. more

Amplifying Voices: A Series of Digital Stories
VIDEO
This OSI-sponsored collection of videos gives voice to the concerns of people marginalized by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. more

Harm Reduction Developments 2008
March 2008
This OSI report provides a snapshot of key developments in HIV prevention, policy, and treatment for injecting drug users in countries with injection-driven HIV epidemics. 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

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International AIDS Conference March for Human Rights and HIV/AIDS
Mexico City
August 7, 2008
Thousands of activists and people affected by HIV and AIDS will join a global march in Mexico City during the International AIDS Conference. more

European Youth and AIDS Seminar
Bucharest, Romania
June 27, 2008
Supported by the European Commission, DG SANCO and OSI's Roma Health Project, the European Youth and AIDS Seminar promotes the development of community-based HIV/AIDS NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the new and future Member States of the European Union. more

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

OSI Forum: The Invisible Cure—Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
OSI-New York
September 4, 2007
AUDIO
OSI hosted a presentation by journalist Helen Epstein, whose new book argues that the very institutions designed to lead the global response to HIV/AIDS may in fact be undermining community responses to the epidemic. more

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