Any peers of peer-led organisations of people who use drugs from Myanmar want to attend?

Jamie

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Call for case studies of the contribution made by peer led organisations of people who use drugs to the HIV response
20 October 2014
Deadline: 16:00 UTC/GMT

INPUD is holding a side-meeting, co-sponsored by the NGO Delegation, at the UNAIDS PCB meeting 9-11 December in Geneva during the thematic segment devoted to Halving HIV Transmissions Amongst People who Inject Drugs by 2015. The meeting will highlight the vital work done by drug user led organisations or peer run services in the HIV response.

Peer led organisations of people who inject drugs have played a vital, creative, and critical contribution to the HIV response, as well as to other issues affecting the lives and health of the drug using community; nothing demonstrates this better than the fact that it was the injecting community itself that gave birth to the concept and practice of needle and syringe exchange and safe consumption rooms. Subject to repressive drug law, criminalisation, stigma, discrimination, and marginalisation, the drug using community has never been silent, and has, even in the most repressive of environments, displayed a proud history of organising in response to human rights violations, stigma, discrimination, HIV, hepatitis C, overdose and more.  This work has included peer led services, peer to peer education and training, the production of media and resources, advocacy, lobbying, and a persistent reminder that we are here, that our lives matter and that we are best placed to defend our rights and protect our health. This meeting, organised by the International Network of People who use Drugs and co-sponsored by the PCB NGO Delegation will highlight the vital work done by drug user led organisations or peer run services in the HIV response, illustrating their critical importance to an effective response, and demonstrating the wide variety of approaches to community empowerment adopted by the drug using community.

To make sure that we get a representative meeting and showcase the work of the most innovative peer led organisations of people who use drugs, we are putting out this call for case studies to be presented in the meeting.

INPUD will pay for one representative of each of the chosen organisations to come to Geneva to attend the event and present in the meeting.

We can't of course guarantee that all case studies will be selected as we can only showcase at most 3-4 in the meeting.

The deadline for case studies will be 20 October 2014, 16:00 UTC/GMT and should be emailed to office@inpud.net

Please circulate this call widely through your networks using this link: http://bit.ly/1m91ZAw