Examples of using Harm reduction programmes in English and their translations into Arabic
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They demanded access to harm reduction programmes.
(b) Harm reduction programmes, how they work and where they are currently implemented;
Drug users attending medical care and involved in harm reduction programmes;
Harm reduction programmes, including the prevention of sharing needles and safe sex, are implemented in most of the treatment programmes. .
I have decided that my salary will benefit the harm reduction programmes implemented in Georgia.
The early roll-out of harm reduction programmes in the Netherlands has limited infections among people who use drugs, and we are now close to zero.
Although some countrieshave taken steps in recent years to expand access to harm reduction programmes, service coverage remains grossly inadequate.
Moreover, criminalization meant no harm reduction programmes-- such as needle and syringe exchange and condom promotion-- were available to curb HIV transmission, particularly in prisons.
Support has been provided for the inclusion of acomponent addressing stigma in the training curriculum for harm reduction programmes in community and prison settings in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
National governments should implement harm reduction programmes and policies, decriminalize or de-penalize drug use and possession, and reform regulations concerning essential medicines.
(e) Providing gender-sensitive and evidence-based drug treatment services to reduce harmful effects for women who use drugs,including harm reduction programmes for women in detention.
Particular attention was given to the development of harm reduction programmes to minimize the damage caused by drug addiction to both the individual and society.
Legal and policy obstacles-- such as compulsory drug treatment or harassment of people who inject drugs by law enforcement officials--undermine the reach and effectiveness of harm reduction programmes.
Although evidence indicates that scaled-up harm reduction programmes sharply reduce drug-related HIV transmission, service coverage remains extremely low in most settings.
The Subcommittee recommends that prison authorities step up their efforts to prevent drugs from being brought into prisons,to identify access routes and to launch drug prevention campaigns(harm reduction programmes).
UNODC is at the forefront of harm reduction programmes and provides technical assistance on HIV prevention and care among injecting drug users.
Statistics show that, in Albania, policies and laws which respect the healthand human rights of drug users and which set up harm reduction programmes at the community level are indispensable to stop the epidemic.
In addition, despite the negative perception of harm reduction programmes, we have managed to use those programmes as examples of how to involve and empower persons at the greatest risk, such as injecting drug users and men who have sex with men.
The consideration and adoption of legislation is also necessary to protect the human rights of key populations andto support the implementation of effective interventions such as harm reduction programmes linked to drug use.
We urgently need tomove forward with far greater access to harm reduction programmes in all regions and trust this process will be kick-started before and during the special session.
A workshop held in Brazil in March 1998 concluded with an agreement among three regional networks to form a global network,“Global Voice”,with a first objective of assisting African harm reduction programmes to form a similar network.
Eurasian Harm Reduction Network is a regional network of harm reduction programmes, groups of people who use drugs and their allies from 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
(c) Adopt a human rights-based approach in addressing the problem of drug use, with a focus on appropriate health care, psychological support services and rehabilitation for drug users,including drug dependence treatment such as opioid substitution therapy and harm reduction programmes.
It was noted that throughout much of Eastern Europe and Central Asia,official resistance to evidence-informed harm reduction programmes continues to result in avoidable HIV infections and needless human suffering.
Countries that have implemented harm reduction programmes at a sufficient scale have seen sharpreductions in HIV incidence associated with drug use, with some, such as Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, approaching the elimination of drug-related HIV transmission.
To make essential harm reduction services available and protect people who inject drugs from HIV infection, countries need to enable legislative and policy frameworks that uphold human rights,avoid punitive approaches such as compulsory treatment and provide support for harm reduction programmes to operate.
Thus, while countries like Indonesia are developing comprehensive harm reduction programmes for injecting drug users, access to key components of harm reduction remains limited in other countries, including many Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
Recent years have witnessed the expansion of prevention programmes for men who have sex with men in China, the scaling up of community-centred services targeted for sex workers in India andthe decision by a growing number of countries to remove restrictions on harm reduction programmes for people who use drugs.
The main areas of action include empowering people with pertinent information on prevention, providing support and care at the household level through home-based care programmes, promoting adherenceto antiretroviral therapy and tuberculosis treatment, implementing harm reduction programmes for injecting drug users, reducing stigma and discrimination, providing psychosocial support to children orphaned by AIDS, and advocating for and promoting the human rights for people infected with and affected by HIV.
The national strategy was designed to reinforce international cooperation in the fight against drugs, decriminalize drug use, focus on primary prevention by giving priority to action plans aimed at young people, ensure that all addicts had access to treatment and occupationalreintegration mechanisms, expand harm reduction programmes and strengthen the fight against drug trafficking and money laundering by improving linkages with the various authorities involved.