In the framework of the CORE EU project, we filmed at two community-based centers run by GAT Portugal in Lisbon. They are excellent examples of building effective HIV responses on peer work! Check it out!

The BOOST project aims to support and strengthen community-based and community-led organisations in providing communicable diseases services as part of comprehensive, people-centred harm reduction strategies. Drugreporter produced this short video at a dynamic Advocacy Workshop in Budapest in the framework of the BOOST Project.

CORE is a 36 months EU project that aims to reduce inequalities in the HIV, TB and viral hepatitis responses and involves  24 partners from 16 EU Member States. In these short videos, produced by Drugreporter, you can witness the progress that implementing organisations on the ground achieved with the help of CORE.

Drug Consumption Rooms are safe spaces where people can use drugs under hygienic conditions, with support, and without fear of violence or legal repercussions. Today, more than 140 legally-sanctioned DCRs operate in 11 European countries, as well as in Australia, Canada, Mexico and the USA. Join us on a global video tour to discover why they were established, how they support their local communities and how these life-saving harm reduction facilities have evolved over time.

The recent backlash against the decriminalisation of drug use is a worrying sign of decision-makers’ short-sightedness. We, as a society, need to reconnect with marginalised people and not re-criminalise them.

The EU’s drug monitoring agency organised a meeting with civil society in Lisbon to discuss future cooperation outlined in its new mandate. Read this short report about the meeting by Marie Nougier (IDPC) and Peter Sarosi!

CORE – COmmunity REsponse to End Inequalities aims to reduce inequalities in the HIV, TB and viral hepatitis responses by promoting, strengthening and integrating community responses that have proven key in reaching communities that have been traditionally underserved by mainstream prevention and healthcare services. Watch the introduction video by Drugreporter!

In this short film we summarise what the community of people who use drugs in Portugal acknowledges about the famous drug policy model of Portugal, but also what they would like to see improved.

The International Network of People Who Use Drugs and Drugreporter are glad to announce the winners of the #Morethan video contest!

An update about how access to harm reduction programs changed in European cities after the lockdown measures were lifted between the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic.