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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is mandated to assist Member States to provide people who use drugs, prisoners and people vulnerable to human trafficking with evidence-informed comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care services. Our goal is to avert HIV infections and related deaths, to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV, and to contribute to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly to halt and reverse the AIDS epidemic. Read more...

Moldova focused on getting results: Training of 50 on "Case Management Approach to Opioid Substitution Therapy"

The UNODC Project Office in Moldova, in cooperation with the Pompidou Group / Council of Europe, organized training on Case Management Approach to Pharmacotherapy with Methadone in Moldova on April 15-17 2013. The training was conducted in the context  " UNODC-OFID Partnership on Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care among Vulnerable Groups in Central Asia and Eastern Europe " project. 

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Participants, included narcologists, psychologists, university lecturers and social workers

HIV high on the agenda at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

"HIV transmission through injecting drug use continues to be one of the main unresolved challenges of the international community. Widespread stigma, discrimination and lack of access to evidence-informed HIV services are among the key challenges"  Yury Fedotov, UNODC Executive Director.

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India:  Empowering vulnerable women to take care of their right to health


Over the last few years, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been supporting comprehensive HIV prevention services for female injecting drug users and female partners of male drug users in the North East of India, in the context of a joint UN programme.  Read More ...

Sri Lanka: Promoting voluntary HIV counselling and testing in prisons

On September 26, in Sri Lanka, prison authorities together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime launched a behaviour change communication (BCC) toolkit aimed at carrying out focused HIV prevention activities in prisons across the country. A behaviour change communication toolkit is a specialized tool that is used to alter behaviour patterns amongst a certain target group. The recently launched toolkit Read More ...

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UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, hands out methadone to patients in Cambodia


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