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The 2019 Lisbon Addictions Conference took place in beautiful surroundings on the banks of the Tagus River estuary. The conference took on a wide ranging theme with many sessions discussing the methodology of medical academic research papers, while others gave much more scope for civil society input when discussing drug related deaths or safer drug…

The Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) are calling for interested individuals, groups, and organizations to come together to highlight the need to end violence against women who use drugs. Between the International Day for Elimination of Violence againstWomen on November 25th, which is the beginning of 16 days of action through to International…

Youth RISE recently hosted a workshop in Houston, Texas. One of our activities focused on International Overdose Awareness Day which is held annually today, August 31st. Overdose Awareness Day is a day to reflect on those lives lost to overdose, the lives saved by harm reduction practices, and how to spread the word to keep…

Youth RISE members were in attendance at a #4Youth Consortium workshop to help us develop our organisational development strategy. The meeting helped us identify a number of resources and best practices from our consortia partners to help us actualise this strategy. A number of our resources and experiences were also identified as being potentially useful…

Baltic states and Caucasus Countries Youth Mobilization Meeting was held from the 6th to the 8th of  August, 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The meeting brought 20 young people from 6 countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.  The meeting was aimed at mobilizing young people who use drugs or who are affected by repressive drug…

Written by Kelly Ebbert July was a big month for Youth RISE as we held our annual meetup in Nida, Lithuania, and we hosted the first of its kind E-Network Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. We went into our annual internal meeting with goals to effectively strategize and plan for our future as an organization.  We…

While visiting Australia, Youth RISE’s MJ Stowe met up with Tegan Nuckey from the Queensland Injectors Health Network (QuIHN), to find out more about their needle and syringe program (NSP), as well as undergo naloxone administration training. QuIHN’s NSPs provide sterile injecting equipment and disposal options, referral to health services and information and education aimed…

Written by Ishwor Maharjan From the 9th June to 1st July 2019 CMI, a consortium of Young Key Population (YKP)-led networks (Youth LEAD, Youth RISE and Y+ Network) successfully carried out Global Training of Trainers for the Global Fund in Cape Town, South Africa. Young leaders from 18 countries along with the representatives from The Global Fund (GF), UNAIDS and developing…