UNODC is cosponsor of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - UNAIDS
UNODC'S COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE APPROACH
HIV/AIDS prevention and care programmes for injecting drug users typically include a wide variety of measures (the 'package' approach), ranging from drug dependence treatment, including drug substitution treatment, outreach providing injecting drug users with information on risk reduction and referral to services, clean needles and syringes, and condoms, voluntary counselling and testing, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, antiretroviral therapy, and interventions for especially at-risk populations such as prisoners and sex workers who inject drugs. Such a comprehensive package of measures also usually includes treatment instead of punishment for persons convicted of minor offences, since drug treatment not only constitutes humane, cost effective alternative, but also incarceration usually increases the risk of HIV transmission.
