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The Warsaw Declaration: A Framework for Effective Action on HIV/AIDS and Injecting Drug Use
Two decades after the AIDS epidemic was first recognized, the spread of HIV infection through injecting drug use is an increasingly serious public health problem in many countries and regions of the world. Abundant, high-quality evidence of effective, safe and cost-effective harm reduction strategies exists, yet in many countries, the implementation of such strategies is still "too little and too late."
Continued failure to act can no longer be blamed on the absence of effective policies, programs, interventions or resources. Political and social commitment, including commitment of the necessary resources, is what will make the difference between success and failure.
Resulting from the 2nd International Policy Dialogue on HIV/AIDS, this Declaration provides a framework for mounting an effective response to slow and eventually stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic among injecting drug users worldwide.
The Policy Dialogue was held in Warsaw, Poland on November 12-14, 2003, and was hosted by the Government of Poland with support from UNAIDS, Health Canada, the Open Society Institute, and the Canadian International Development Agency.
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