Please find below a link to a new UNODC report on drugs and crime in west Africa, with a special focus on the issue of the trafficking of cocaine and other drugs from S. America via west Africa to Europe.
The link also brings you to a superb photo essay on Guinea Bissau, now widely regarded as having become a 'narco-state.'
While the report is illuminating (just skim the exec summary), it mentions HIV only in passing and includes no recommendations for how to deal with growing rates of drug use among west Africans, due to their increasing exposure to these trafficked drugs. In that respect, the report is yet another disappointing publication from UNODC, the lead agency on IDU within the UN, but still ill-at-ease with this role, it seems.
We continue to look more to UNAIDS and WHO for leadership on strongly advocating for harm reduction for people already involved in drug use, in Africa and the rest of the world.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/drugsandconflict/2009/08/24/photoessay-the-fall-of-africas-first-narco-state/
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