Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

The document is produced on behalf of the Victorian Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee in Australia to consider introducing a safe-injection facility (SIF) trial project in the City of Greater Dandenong. The author provides a summary of current trends in drug policy and the public debate surrounding SIF; a background on the issues specific to the community; national and international perspectives on SIF; and answers to commonly asked questions about SIF.

The Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) is a coalition of Canadian international development organizations and AIDS service organizations that aim to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on resource poor communities. The authors focus on the relationship between HIV/AIDS, education, and development by highlighting ways that education has been fundamentally changed by HIV/AIDS on the one hand, and how education can work to change the HIV/AIDS crisis on the other. The authors point out problems with past HIV/AIDS education efforts and call for HIV/AIDS to be placed at the centre of the education agenda.

An issue of the newsletter published by the HIV Network of Edmonton with the Wildrose Foundation. The newsletter includes information for injection drug users about community resources and harm reduction.

The document is produced by the Transnational Institute, an international network of activist-scholars who analyze current global problems. The paper is part of a series of debate papers about drugs and conflict and the authors explore the particular circumstances surrounding the connected issues of cannabis/marijuana production in rural Brazil and violence. The authors include a brief history of drug law in Brazil as background for analyzing new drug laws, along with a detailed analysis of the situation in Rio de Janeiro, and conclude that current drug control policies only increase the violence associated with social conflict in Brazil.