Sunday, January 31, 2010

Gender, HIV and IDU

The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network and Harm Reduction Knowledge Hub have launched a project to promote gender equality in HIV programming for IDU. Gender inequality is a topic of growing importance in the Harm Reduction community as implementers become more aware of the dangers of programming that is not sensitive to the gender dynamics of IDU driven HIV epidemics. Read more about the project and post your thoughts and comments at:

http://www.harm-reduction.org/news/1646-ehrn-launches-new-gender-project.html

For PSI platforms interested in ensuring their programs are providing the necessary services for female IDU, visit the IDU Kix page where resource on working with female IDU are provided.


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