At what cost? HIV and human rights consequences of the global "war on drugs"', Open Society Institute (2009)
Date: 01 March 2009
This book publication, produced by the Open Society
Foundation in 2009, examines the scale of the human rights impact on people who
use drugs in the 10 years following the first UN General Assembly special
session on drugs. The intersection of
HIV and drug policy is an underlying theme throughout the text. Topics covered include:
- Police
Abuse of Injection Drug Users in Indonesia
- Arbitrary
Detention and Police Abuse of Drug Users in Cambodia
- Forced Drug
Testing in China
- Drug
Control Policies and HIV Prevention and Care Among Injection Drug Users in
Imphal, India
- Effects of
UN and Russian Influence on Drug Policy in Central Asia
- The Impacts
of the Drug War in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Civil
Society Reflections on 10 Years of Drug Control in Myanmar, Thailand, and
Vietnam
- Twin
Epidemics—Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in Pakistan
Citation: 'At what cost? HIV and human rights consequences of the global "war on drugs"', Open Society Institute (2009)
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