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A story for Estonia: on happiness and HIV

Tom's story is a story like many others. He told his to Convictus Estonia, an NGO which offers psychological help for HIV-positive and drug addicts. Tom's story is telling of a reality in which gender, drugs and HIV are entangled in one human experience. Talking Drugs is commited to exploring such stories and to reproducing them in order to trigger a debate on how sex, gender, family, drugs and HIV shape specific private and public worlds: in this case, Tom's life.

'Hello! My name is Tom. I am 33 year old now.

    The importance of harm reduction against the risks of infection

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    This video looks at the 80's era in Edinburgh, during the HIV epidemic. The National Treatment Agency is now trying to provide complete comprension and services in order to prevent the risks among injecting drug users.

     

     

     

      Not only IDUs who are vulnerable to HIV or hepatitis C, right?

      Submitted by ridotriawan on Thu, 03/09/2009 - 16:29

      Not only IDUs who are vulnerable to HIV or hepatitis C, right? Pre-congress meeting of people who use drugs (PUD) forum, ICAAP IX Rido Triawan The pre-congress meeting of people who use drugs (PUD) forum on ICAAP IX with a theme ‘reform: towards human rights based drug policy’ was held on August 8th 2009 in Sanur, Bali. More than 120 participants from at least 11 countries in Asia Pacific attended this meeting. They were from Indonesia, Thailand, India, Nepal, Australia, Myanmar, Philippine, Malaysia, Cambodia, China, and Japan.

        People affected with Hepatitus C are dying because they can't afford treatment

        The 9th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) that took place on the 9th – 13th of August this year was interrupted by a small group of campaigners demanding access to drugs that treat HIV patients who also have been affected by Hepatitis C.

          Tuol Sambo

          At TalkingDrugs.org we have already posted a few stories describing the situation of heroin addicts in Cambodia.

          We have just get another worrying information from this country:

          In June this year, Cambodian authorities using force have resettled 20 HIV-affected families from Borei Keila (an area in Phnom Penh, biggest city and capital of Cambodia) to the Tuol Sambo- place located 25 kilometres from the Phnom Penh. Families are accomodated in metal sheds, without running water and basic sanitary facilities. They are baking hot in the daytime.

            Trying to survive

            Kostya Proletarsky.  The last interview

            Interviewer: Anya Sarang
            English translation: Vitaly Djuma, Shona Schonning

              Thai drug users talk about harm reduction practices

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              Two Thai drug users talk about where harm reduction efforts are at in Thailand. They say that current programs tend to be too fragmented and focus on telling user what they should and shouldn't do instead of listening to the experiences and needs of the users themselves. They also say that at this stage there is not much in the way of collective activism to promote harm reduction, and it's difficult to interface with goverment and other agencies. The cycle of being arrested and put into jail and programs has the effect of further isolating users from communities.

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                Srey Mao's story: The life of a mother in Phnom Penh

                Srey Mao has been living in Phnom Penh since the age of 19 when she came from her mother’s house in the Cambodian Province of Svay Reang. Her father left the family when she was just four years old, forcing her mother to support them by herself. One year after coming to Phnom Penh, Srey Mao got married. Two years later she gave birth to a baby girl. Two years after that she began using heroin.

                  National Geographic - Afghan Heroin 5/5

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                  Part 5 of 5. National Geographic examines the war on drugs and the use Afghan heroin in the US.

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