Methadone

 Guns and leg irons vs. syringe exchange and methadone – Mauro Guarinieri on Vietnam’s response to HIV

by Matt Curtis
Mon, 08/04/2008 - 9:38am


Length: 11:16 With his partner and a beautiful new baby daughter, Mauro Guarinieri relocated to Hanoi at the beginning of 2008 to take up a position as an HIV advisor with Constella Futures Group. In the two decades before that, Mauro fought for drug user and PLWH rights, becoming chairman of the European AIDS Treatment Group, chair of the global board of GNP+, and working for a couple years at the Open Society Institute. In this interview, Mauro talks about the shape of Vietnam’s HIV epidemic, and the government’s fits-and-starts effort to introduce harm reduction programs while still relying largely on prison, coerced detox, and other means of social control aimed at those most at risk of infection.

Take a Look: Special AIDS issue to be released at the IAC

by Cameron Lefevre
Fri, 07/25/2008 - 4:23pm

AIDS JournalWe've got the August 2008 special issue of AIDS which will be released at the IAC. The theme of this special issue is LEAP: Leadership, Equity, Accountability, and Partnerships to provide concrete recommendations for implementing the Ford Foundation's Global HIV/AIDS Initiative. We applaud the journal, the Ford Foundation and the authors for their emphasis on social justice.

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» Creating a world that survives, and thrives, with AIDS
» Moving beyond the alphabet soup of HIV prevention
» The next 5 years of global HIV/AIDS policy: critical gaps and strategies for effective responses
» Leadership development and HIV/AIDS
» Wealth, health, HIV and the economics of hope
» Gender and AIDS: time to act
» Stigma in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a review of the literature and recommendations for the way forward
» The role of harm reduction in controlling HIV among injecting drug users
» Refocusing and prioritizing HIV programmes in conflict and post-conflict settings: funding recommendations
» Accountability in the global response to HIV: measuring progress, driving change
» Health and human rights in today's fight against HIV/AIDS

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