April 29, 2013
April 29, 2013 Whitney Englander, Government Relations Manager * This article was originally published as a feature of Open Society VOICES here.* On April 24th, the Obama Administration released its 2013 National Drug Control Strategy – and it contains some huge gains for harm reduction advocates. An annual document that outlines the vision for the [...]
April 28, 2013
We were so fortunate to have an amazing graphic recorder – Avril Orloff – at our conference, capturing important themes, conversations, ideas, messages and history! Click on the images below to see a larger version of each piece. The following graphics are from the Open Space process.
February 27, 2013
The Atlantic - The designers of a low-dead-space syringe hope that their innovation could hamper the disease’s spread among the estimated 15.9 million people who inject drugs worldwide.
February 12, 2013
Syringe exchange programs, or as they are more currently known, syringe services programs, operate with the primary goal of providing injection drug users with new, sterile injection equipment as a means of reducing the spread of blood-borne viruses and or injection-related infections. In addition, there has traditionally been an emphasis placed on simultaneously removing used [...]
February 1, 2013
Remembering Dave Purchase If you told Dave Purchase that he was a pioneer he’d probably lean forward and say “speak up, partner, can’t hear you, I’ve got a pie in my ear.” If you insisted, he’d probably add that we’re all pioneers, to not doubt that we are correct in what we do, and we [...]
December 26, 2012
Today, you can still access HCV specialty medications from your local neighborhood pharmacy but – THIS RIGHT IS AT RISK of being taken away! Tens of thousands of New York’s most vulnerable patients enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans are being forced to use mail order pharmacies to fill their HCV specialty prescriptions. This policy [...]
December 14, 2012
December 17th marks the 9th Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. First celebrated in 2003 by Annie Sprinkle and the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA, December 17th memorializes the loss through acts of violence of individuals who were sex workers. Originally started as a memorial and vigil for the victims of the [...]
October 19, 2012
- Hadiyah Charles, Hepatitis C Advocacy Manager, Harm Reduction Coalition The United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) took place from September 30 – October 3 in Las Vegas, Nevada. USCA is the largest annual AIDS-related conference in the country where upwards of 3000 leaders from the national HIV/AIDS and substance use communities, along with high [...]
August 22, 2012
This blog post is the second in a series that will explore the connection between harm reduction theory and the concept of basic human rights. For years, U.S. lawmakers and the public have allowed their personal moral beliefs to override the proven physiological benefits of the harm reduction model. As we struggle to knock down [...]
July 26, 2012
Harm Reduction Coalition’s own Allan Clear, along with the IAC Sex Worker Organizing Collaborative and other activists (VOCAL-NY, Housing Works, HIPS and many others!) interrupted the opening press conference at the International AIDS conference in Washington DC to demand accountability for the exclusion of sex workers and drug users from AIDS 2012. The activists were [...]