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Title: Youth R.I.S.E: Resources. Information. Support. Education for Reducing Drug-Related Harm
Location:
Global
Status:
In Progress
Timeline: Ongoing
Categories: Education, Human Rights, Health, Substance Abuse
Tags: youth, drugs, sex, incarceration, prison, hiv, aids, druguse, substanceabuse, harmreduction, childrights
Description:
Many young people use drugs at some point in their lives; the majority do so with little or no resultant harm. But many youth, lacking information, support, and resources, are at risk of drug-related harms such as overdose, HIV or hepatitis infection or arrest. The majority of these risks & harms can be reduced through honest education, provision of safer means of using drugs & implementation of humane drug laws: this is harm reduction.
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Dec 22nd, 2009 - 16:44:45 | Allen Frimpong
Most at-Risk Adolescents and Young People for HIV/AIDS 6/25/09
“Sex work doesn’t harm like stealing does.”
This quote was from a young woman in Vietnam, taken from one of the... (read more)
Mar 14th, 2008 - 14:31:01 | Esther Agbarakwe
Hi everyone, am Esther and i just want to write on my participation at the 3rd Africa Conference on sexual Health and Right that was held at the International Conference center Abuja form the... (read more)
Feb 7th, 2008 - 18:05:23 | Caitlin
Report from World AIDS Campaign meeting in Amsterdam, January 30-February 1
I have just finished participating in a 2-day consultation organized by the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) and funded by... (read more)
Jan 8th, 2008 - 19:23:10 | Caitlin
Hi everyone,
Now that we have received funding, we are able to develop the network in ways that we couldn't before. We now have 2 coordinators, myself and Kyla Zanardi, working full-time and... (read more)
Jul 7th, 2007 - 10:00:19 | Caitlin
Reflections on Youth Participation at the 18th IHRA Conference, Warsaw Poland:
We announced the formation of an international harm reduction network for youth at the Vancouver 2006 IHRA... (read more)
Jun 3rd, 2007 - 02:03:25 | Caitlin
Hello everyone!
For those of you who travelled to the 18th International Conference on Drug Related Harm... I hope you had safe travels home! We will be posting the notes from the satellite... (read more)
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