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Harm Reduction News: Focus on Human Rights
In the age of HIV/AIDS epidemics, the human rights issues associated with drugs have acquired heightened significance. Restrictions on substitution therapies and needle exchange in the name of law enforcement make the question of rights literally a matter of life and death for many people—not only for thousands of drug users but also for millions of others to whom the disease may spread.
The essays in this issue of Harm Reduction News, the newsletter of OSI's International Harm Reduction Development program, focus particularly on the ways that violations of human rights contribute to the spread of HIV. In calling attention to these abuses, our hope is to broaden the struggle to uphold the worth and dignity of their victims and simultaneously to enhance the effectiveness of efforts to combat a public health emergency.
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