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We worked with the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN), to plan, research, write and publish this new position paper on the topic of young women and drug use. This position paper also contains recommendations to guide governments and policy makers to better address the unique needs of young women who use drugs. We…

To commemorate International Youth Day 2021, our members and partner organizations came together to explain what it is like to be a young person who uses drugs, and a young drug policy reform advocate in their respective countries. We demand change, for our futures.

For the Support Don’t Punish Global Day of Action, we supported a number of activities worldwide, undertaken by some of our partners organizations and International Working Group members. Learn about what activities were undertaken in Costa Rica, Kenya, Canada, Argentina, and Nigeria.

This report was written and published by the Count Me In consortium, comprising of Youth LEAD, Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+), and ourselves. It describes 10 existing harm reduction projects with youth-friendly components and providing services to different sub-groups of young people who inject drugs around the globe. Based on these…

For the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS currently, Youth RISE co-organised a side event titled: Youth-Led & Youth-Friendly Services To End Inequality & To End AIDS. Maria, our new IWG, spoke at the event about the importance of youth friendly harm reduction services. Check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CP-F97ggNHi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on HIV/AIDS is an extremely significant event taking place every five years. The HLM includes a wide-variety of meetings and opportunities for both advocacy and learning. The process of the HLM began long before the “official” start date of the High Level Meeting on June 8th, with the 8th…

The 2021 Youth Working Group for the High-Level Meeting welcomes the adoption of a new Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS. We appreciate and commend the leadership of the Co-Facilitators, Australia and Namibia, in this process. We are disappointed by the efforts of a small number of member states to derail the process and are…

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