The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS: How the Criminalization of Drug Use Fuels the Global Pandemic - Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (June 2012)

Date: 01 June 2012

This report was published by the Global Commission on Drug Policy in 2012. The report examines the failure of the criminalisation of drug use as means of combating drug trafficking and as a prominent agent on the current global epidemy of HIV/AIDS among incarcerated individuals and the population in general

Topics covered include:

The criminalisation of drug use;
The impact the criminalisation of drug use has on the levels of HIV/AIDS infections;
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS among the incarcerated population;
The need for the implementation of evidence-based treatments in regards to drug use;
Denial of access to healthcare to persons who use drugs who are infected by HIV/AIDS;
Harm Reduction.

Citation: Global Commission on Drug Policy, ‘The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS’ (June 2012)